Justin Sherman is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative and a senior fellow at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, where he runs its data brokerage research project.
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Rather than focusing on single vectors of data collection and transmission, the U.S. government must respond comprehensively to the many vectors of data collection, aggregation, buying, selling and sharing that pose risks to national security.
The FCC issued an order barring China Telecom from providing telecommunications services in the United States.
The trend underscores the broader threats posed by the unregulated data brokerage ecosystem to civil rights and national security.
Huawei has not dominated recent headlines nearly as much as it did under the Trump White House. Yet that does not mean the U.S. campaign against Huawei has stopped.
CFIUS forced a Chinese firm to sell Grindr in 2019. Yet the application is sharing data widely today, including to a company in China.
Some U.S. laws and documents provide a foundation. But is a distinction between “data brokers” and the practice of “data brokerage” the right approach?
What does the report reveal about online extremism and the efforts to counter it?