Deep Dive: Cybersecurity and the Broad Geopolitical Risk of Digital Life
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Cybersecurity is increasingly a major concern of modern life, coloring everything from the way we vote to the way we drive to the way our health care records are stored. Yet online security is beset by threats from nation-states and terrorists and organized crime, and our favorite social media sites are drowning in conspiracy theories and disinformation. How do we reset the internet and reestablish control over our own information and digital society?
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John CarlinPartner at Morrison & Foerster -
Tom FanningPresident and CEO of Southern Company -
Monika BickertHead of Product Policy and Counterterrorism, Facebook (Festival Under... -
Rana ForooharAssociate Editor and Global Business Columnist, Financial Times -
Renee DiRestaHead of Policy, Data for Democracy; Research Director, New Knowledge -
Dipayan GhoshFellow, New America; Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School -
Daphne KellerDirector, Intermediary Liability, Center for Internet and Society, Sta...
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