I'm a freelance journalist, and I cover a weird assortment of things. Privacy, security, foreign policy, politics, law, defence, the list goes on. I hosted Uncover: The Village, and my book Missing From the Village is out now.

I'm based in Montreal, mostly, and I'm big on privacy. So if you want to get in touch, there's lots of ways.

Please don't call me to talk about aliens. Email is better for that.

This is my Signal address +16134072292

This is a secure email, encrypted and hosted in Switzerland, meaning law enforcement will have difficulty in obtaining anything in my inbox: justinling at protonmail dot com

This is my PGP Key and a and here is a guide to PGP if you're unfamiliar or confused.

You can find some things I've written on MuckRack.

Recently I've been writing about how the COVID-19 second wave has hit Canada's prisons, what's next for QAnon, what Joe Biden's presidency may mean for America's over-burdened justice system, and about the growing push for drug decriminalization in Mexico.

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