Bill Marczak
Marczak speaking while gesturing with hands during TechCrunch Disrupt panel discussion
Marczak in 2023
OccupationComputer researcher

Bill Marczak is a senior research fellow at digital watchdog Citizen Lab, a co-founder of Bahrain Watch, and a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, from which he received his PhD in computer science under Vern Paxson. Marczak's work focuses on threats to Internet freedom, by both rogue and state actors, including surveillance, spyware, and censorship tools. His work has been featured in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and on Larry King. Marczak's work has uncovered several instances of states using spyware for clandestine operations at odds with rights to privacy and freedom.[1][2][3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody's iPhone from Anywhere in the World". Vanity Fair.
  2. ↑ "Bill Marczack to Bahrain Mirror: Israeli Spyware that Targeted Amnesty was Used in Bahrain, Targeted Someone in Qatar". Bahrain Mirror.
  3. ↑ "Mercenary spyware hacked iPhone victims with rogue calendar invites, researchers say". Tech Crunch.
  4. ↑ "Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents". New York Times.
  5. ↑ ""The surveillance industry is heading towards a squeeze"". CTech.
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