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    The document summarizes the risks associated with data and national security. It discusses how democracies and authoritarians are engaged in a global contest over the information environment. It notes that advances in machine learning have created new modes of national power around data and new opportunities for influence. It provides examples of how some authoritarian regimes are already exploiting data for control through facial recognition, GPS tracking, and genetic/ethnic surveillance. The document also presents a typology of four main information-based national security threats and stresses the importance of process and upholding democratic values in addressing these challenges.

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    The document summarizes the risks associated with data and national security. It discusses how democracies and authoritarians are engaged in a global contest over the information environment. It notes that advances in machine learning have created new modes of national power around data and new opportunities for influence. It provides examples of how some authoritarian regimes are already exploiting data for control through facial recognition, GPS tracking, and genetic/ethnic surveillance. The document also presents a typology of four main information-based national security threats and stresses the importance of process and upholding democratic values in addressing these challenges.

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    The text discusses the global contest over information between democracies and authoritarians, and how data and technology are increasingly being used for national power and influence.

    The text outlines four types of information-based national security threats: data exfiltration and security, information influence, infrastructural influence, and global human rights issues.

    The text discusses how genetic and DNA samples in China have been used for ethnic surveillance in Xinjiang, and how facial recognition and GPS tracking are being implemented extensively in urban surveillance networks in cities like Moscow.

    DATA & NATIONAL SECURITY :

    CRYSTALLIZING THE RISKS


    September 2020

    Lindsay P. Gorman
    Emerging Technology Fellow | Alliance for Securing Democracy
    www.bestppt.com
    www.securingdemocracy.gmfus.org
    @LindsayPGorman
    The 30,000 ft view: The global information contest
    Democracies and authoritarians are engaged in a global contest over the information environment.

    The Global Information Contest


    Governance:
    Architecture:
    The use or the laws,
    the systems,
    manipulation standards, and
    platforms, or
    of information norms for
    companies
    itself (data and content, data,
    that transmit
    content) and
    it
    technology

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    Data is Power
    Advances in and increasing reliance on machine learning systems have created new modes of national power
    around data, and new opportunities for influence across the information sphere.

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    Data Abuse as a Boon to Authoritarians
    The exploitation of just some of these forms of data are already in use for authoritarian control

    Facial recognition and GPS tracking Genetic and ethnic surveillance

    Urban Surveillance
    “City authorities
    ThermoFisher Scientific, a Boston-based DNA
    say the planned
    sequencing company sold machines to security
    system will have
    Moscow to Weave AI Face contractors in Xinjiang. A Yale University geneticist
    access to all
    Recognition into Its Urban inadvertently gave DNA samples to a member of
    160,000 existing
    Surveillance Net China’s Ministry of State Security. The samples were
    cameras.”
    later used to prove out genetic surveillance techniques
    in Xinjiang.
    In March, the
    Kremlin called
    for “genetic
    certification of
    May 14, 2019 the population.”

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    A Typology of Information-Based National Security Threats
    There’s a temptation to conflate a range of concerns with information apps into “security threats” or to over-
    focus on data espionage. If policymakers aren’t clear about the threats, they can’t be clear on the solutions.

    1) Data exfiltration and security 3) Infrastructural influence

    o What type of data?


    o Personal South China Sea: Vietnam airport
    screens hacked
    o Corporate
    o National Security

    o Whose data?
    o National security professional
    o Citizen in a democracy July 29, 2016
    o Citizen in a less free state
    4) Global human rights
    2) Information influence

    o Targeted political influence


    o Disinformation
    o Selective Censorship
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    A Note on Process: It Matters
    In the bigger picture contest, democracies cannot afford to capitulate on values or lose sight of what they are
    fighting for: a system of governance that upholds accountability and civil liberties.

    Legal and policy tools available:

     CFIUS (StayNTouch, Grindr, TikTok)

     EU Data Protection Bureau (TikTok)

     IEEPA (TikTok, WeChat)

     Export Controls, eg. Entity List (Huawei, Hikvision)

     Sanctions (Xinjiang)

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