Calling the past month a tumultuous one for United States digital policy might be an understatement. Between remote working and learning, Netflix binging, and doomscrolling, internet usage has swelled during the pandemic. The Trump administration, meanwhile, continues its campaign against Chinese telecom Huawei and has touted banning TikTok in the United States.
On top of that, General Paul Nakasone, head of US Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, said last month, “We’re going to act when we see adversaries attempting to interfere in our elections.” President Trump publicly confirmed a reported US Cyber Command operation in 2018 to knock Russia’s Internet Research Agency offline during the midterms. And Democratic representatives have requested an FBI briefing on foreign influence operations aimed at the 2020 election.
Still, rising from all these digital threats is the potential for better policy and outcomes. “You see cyber now come from the world of the techies into the world of geopolitics,” says Sue Gordon, who most recently served as principal deputy director of national intelligence, the second-highest-ranking intelligence official in the US, before r ..
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