What @snowden revealed was the construction and foundations of the same surveillance and influence nightmare that is now coming of age, weaponised worldwide. We needed that knowledge. Let’s learn the lessons, reform surveillant infrastructure and influence.
Don’t enable governments arguments designed to weaken Whistleblowing across the board and strip journalism of important protections.
Reform government contracting, increase oversight and reporting, do things in house if you’re going to, introduce #dataprivacy reforms we need and understand that an arms race in this surveillant influence nightmare does not make us safer.
Finally - extend FOIA to government contractors to enable accountable, transparent government and reduce the incentive to move things out to hide them.
Here are recent thoughts on what’s failing in our attempts at tackling influence operations and disinformation brookings.edu/blog/techtank/…
And the case for reform in government contracting opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/e…
Here are my earlier suggestions for reform which the UK parliament Fake News Inquiry published and which still need acting on @CommonsDCMS data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
I am currently working on an updated and expanded argument and suggested policy reforms and a book on #CambridgeAnalytica! Please sign up for updates here! emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-im…
