Innovators Under 35
INNOVATIVE Pioneers
P3. Phillipa Gill, 32
University
of Massachusetts, Amherst
An empirical method for
measuring Internet censorship.
Five years ago, when
Phillipa Gill began a research fellowship at the University of Toronto’s
Citizen Lab, she was surprised to find that there was no real accepted approach
for empirically measuring censorship. So Gill, now an assistant professor of
computer science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, built a set
of new measurement tools to detect and quantify such practices. One technique
automatically detects so-called block pages, which tell a user if a site has
been blocked by a government or some other entity. In 2015, Gill and colleagues
used her methods to confirm that a state-owned ISP in Yemen was using a
traffic-filtering device to block political content during an armed
conflict.
—Mike Orcutt
—Mike Orcutt
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
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