The Citizen Lab has won a number of awards for its work. It is the first Canadian institution to win the MacArthur Foundation’s MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions (2014) and the only Canadian institution to receive a "New Digital Age" Grant (2014) from Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Past awards include the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer award (2015), the Canadian Library Association's Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada Award (2013), the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom's Press Freedom Award (2011), and the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression’s Vox Libera Award (2010).