Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society

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A MAJOR GLOBAL ISSUE: There is a huge appetite for information on the rapid developments in social media, social media platforms, and surveillance, from Facebook's policies (or lack thereof) on political advertising to China's citizen-surveillance superstructure to the U.S. vs. China race to develop 5G, the next-gen high-speed, wireless network - all of which are having, and will continue to have, an impact on individuals, on societies, on international relations.SOCIAL MEDIA AND SURVEILLANCE AND THE 2020 U.S. ELECTION: The next U.S. election is on November 3, 2020. Given the controversy surrounding Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election, no doubt social media manipulation will continue to be a huge topic of discussion. The book publishes just before the 2020 U.S. election, on October 6 in the U.S. and September 29 in Canada.WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED BY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA: Deibert's work has received front-page coverage in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star. He is internationally renowned, as is the Citizen Lab, which published a report on October 1, 2018, exposing how Saudi espionage targeted the inner circle of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi (including hacking the iPhone of Canadian permanent resident and close confidante of Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz). The report was published the day before Khashoggi's assassination.BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND TOP EXPERT IN THE FIELD: Ronald J. Deibert is the bestselling author of Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet. He is also Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, an interdisciplinary research and development "hothouse" working at the intersection of the internet, global security, and human rights. He is a leading expert in the field of technology and security.