Authoritarians should be worried: ‘Web3’ is on the way
The Internet once held great promise as a means of empowering individuals, but it has become yet another path of control for bad actors, note analysts Anthony Vinci and Nadia… Read more »
Category: cybersecurity
A ‘multilateral democratic counterweight’ to digital authoritarians
Today, many democracies are making messy efforts to build consensus around countering China and other countries identified with digital authoritarianism. The British-led D-10, for example, seeks alternatives to China’s telecommunications… Read more »
Internet vs. democracy? Or a democratic vision of digital society?
Democracies must recognize that we are in a geopolitical battle over the governance model that will dominate in the 21st century digital context, argues Eileen Donahoe (right), Executive Director of Stanford’s Global… Read more »
Can democracies win the new great power competition?
The nature of great power competition in the 21st century will shape the world, some observers suggest. So should it be the strategic priority of foreign policy? Given the current… Read more »
Digital democracy vs techno-authoritarianism: ‘Existential crisis’ for Chinese firms
The spread of China’s “techno-authoritarianism,” its pursuit of the “innovation advantage,” and its incompatibility with the liberal democratic model is the focus of a new report. The underlying dynamics and… Read more »
China’s new authoritarian ideology: Panopticon is already here?
Technological leadership from democracies has “never been more imperative…if we want to make sure that Western values are baked into the technologies of the future,” @USCTO tells @andersen https://t.co/tMALrRwGo3 —… Read more »
China waging global ‘hybrid war’: Beijing’s mass surveillance for secrets and scandal
The personal details of millions of people around the world have been swept up in a database compiled by a Chinese tech company with reported links to the country’s military… Read more »
Has technology’s democratic promise been irretrievably lost?
Has the democratic promise of technology been irretrievably lost? The short answer: not yet. But the new era is marked by struggles on multiple fronts. https://t.co/aXOrILbJwU via @CarnegieEndow — Democracy… Read more »
‘Techno-nationalism’ fueling digital authoritarians
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the attrition of individual liberties, as pro-democracy groups recently warned in a Call to Defend Democracy. Data collected by Samuel Woodhams of Top10VPN, a digital… Read more »
Techno-nationalism: Future of free, open internet at stake
The world slid into a new crisis last week and for once COVID-19 was not to blame, notes a SecDev Special Dispatch. Over a 48 hour period the US government… Read more »