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Since the Snowden disclosures in 2013, the relationship between the U.S. government and the tech community has been strained. This Council Special Report offers recommendations for repairing the relationship and moving forward on issues such as encryption, data localization, and cybersecurity.
Reuters
For years, the U.S. government has tried to prod the insurance industry to offer coverage for cybersecurity-related losses. CFR Senior Fellow Robert K. Knake explores the challenges of growing the cyber insurance market and what can be done about it.
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How will the Obama administration follow up its accusation of Russian-directed cyberattacks on U.S. political institutions? An effective, proportionate response will be tricky to maneuver, writes CFR’s Adam Segal.
Council on Foreign Relations
The debate over encryption has been in the headlines a lot over the past few weeks, fueled in part by the clash over the San Bernardino iPhone and WhatsApp’s roll-out of end-to-end encryption across its platform of one billion users. But what is encryption and what does it do? A new Council on Foreign Relations infographic explains.
PublicAffairs
Beginning with the Stuxnet virus launched by the United States at an Iranian nuclear facility in 2010 and continuing through to the most recent Sony hacking scandal, A Hacked World Order exposes how the Internet has ushered in a new era of geopolitical maneuvering and reveals the tremendous and terrifying implications for our economic livelihood, security, and personal identity.
Collaborative Internet governance structures are emerging, but they are being outpaced by policy challenges arising from the Internet’s rapid expansion and development.
