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Subject
Western responses to political meddling with cyber tools.
Significance
Data hacks and cyber ‘kompromat’ operations can influence domestic politics in democracies with a free press, as evidenced in the 2016 US presidential election. Consequently, governments, politicians and the media are recalibrating their responses.
Impacts
Most European countries will strongly penalise social media for GDPR violations.
US regulators will remain less hostile to the interests of ‘big tech’.
Russian actors will constantly adapt their new campaigns to Western defences.
Keywords:
International,
EUR,
INT,
NA,
RUCIS,
WE,
France,
Germany,
Russia,
Sweden,
United Kingdom,
United States,
industry,
computers,
media,
technology,
telecommunications,
Media
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2019
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