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The book shows how the dynamic landscape of big data (data abundance, digital connectivity, and ubiquitous technology) is having profound impacts for intelligence. Big data isn't just a buzzword anymore; it's fundamentally altering the landscape of national security.
Data abundance, digital connectivity, and ubiquitous technology are a trifecta shaping the future of national security. They challenge long standing intelligence principles and practices including the distinction between foreign and domestic intelligence, role of secrecy in intelligence, how nations assess threats and harm and what we can do about them.
The book draws on empirical data collection, including interviews with 47 professionals across all ten National Intelligence Community Agencies, including IGIS. The book details how the big data landscape is transforming the knowledge, activities and organisation of intelligence agencies. The book maps also broad areas of change including how intelligence agencies connect with the rest of society, considering data and privacy, ethics and bias as well as trust, transparency, and legitimacy in intelligence and government.
This book unveils new power dynamics of the big data landscape and sets out how it's centralises economic and information power. It asks, who holds the real power in the era of big data, big tech giants or nation states?
Exploring the complexities of intelligence is a vital step towards demystifying a critical element of national security. Understanding of intelligence agencies and their activities couldn’t come at a more consequential time for democracies. Data and emerging technologies are posing new threats, from the friction caused by disinformation and information warfare, to mainstreaming targeting and surveillance capabilities, to social harms such as deepfake pornography.
Emerging technologies present specific challenges for intelligence communities, including the way trust in evidence and authority has shifted and an environment where government comes under more scrutiny and challenge than ever before. Also, a shift in the role secrecy plays in intelligence. These challenges present opportunities and this book sets out ways to build and maintain trust with citizens, articulate boundaries of ethical intelligence activity, how to improve harms assessment and how to improve the process and practice of intelligence production.
The book details how big data is transforming the knowledge, activities and organisation of intelligence agencies. It shows how the big data landscape is challenging some foundational intelligence principles, including the distinction between foreign and domestic intelligence collection. Need to reimagine intelligence in the age of big data to navigate new forms of complexity and uncertainty.
The book shows how the remit of national security is increasing to include more complex and diffuse threats – from climate change, economic prosperity and migration to public health, energy security, resilience and hybrid warfare. Tackling these requires joining up the parts of government which hold the puzzle pieces and sharing more across the Five Eyes. As the role of intelligence in governing expands, the need for transparency is amplified.
The book maps broad areas of change including how intelligence agencies connect with the rest of society, considering data and privacy, ethics and bias as well as trust, transparency, and legitimacy in intelligence and government.
Hammond-Errey, M (2020) Chapter 18, Transformational Technology and Strategy In: N. Finney, ed., On Strategy, 1st ed. Army University Press. https://t.co/gU1OHVYJZ2?amp=1
Chapter 18 Transformational Technology and Strategy, by Miah Hammond-Errey
In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.
—Y. N. Harari
The future of big data and national security lies in humans’ ability
to embrace the power and mitigate the limits of algorithms.
—D. Van Puyvelde
Ongoing technological evolution—and its associated social, psychological, and organizational impacts on human society—is significantly affecting the development and application of military strategy. The speed
and nature of technological change has impacted how we store, interpret, analyze, and communicate information in society as well as how we access services and develop and maintain trust. This chapter highlights the impact for strategy and military strategists.
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