Many people associate cybersecurity with protecting important information such as credit cards or personal data. However, over the years cybersecurity has been evolving past its usual realm. To Ian Goldberg, it has become one of the pivotal factors in upholding democracy and protecting privacy.
"Going a step beyond that, privacy is important as a society because we need people to be able to step out of bounds. The set of laws and social norms we have today are not the best set. It would be hubris to think they are. We need it to be the case that people can violate social norms in order that those social norms can change."
-Ian Goldberg
Ian Goldberg is the Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies and is a computer science professor at Waterloo. He was the chair of the Board of Directors for the Tor Project and onion browser. The Tor Project prevented people such as government agencies and corporations, from learning about someone’s location and tracking their browsing habits. As well, Goldberg is part of CPI and its Cryptography, Security, and Privacy research group.
From these experiences, Goldberg has learned how cybersecurity can benefit our society in new and innovative ways. Read more about Ian Goldberg's work and the importance of cybersecurity in protecting democratic societies and preventing censorship.