Politics examines how power, elections, and state interests shape cybersecurity laws, critical infrastructure protection, and international cyber norms.
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Politics is the process through which governments and other groups establish policy, allocate power, and manage relations within and between states. For information security, it shapes laws on privacy, surveillance, cybercrime, critical infrastructure, and the lawful use or transfer of security technology. It also influences how states define acceptable behavior in cyberspace and how organizations may store, access, or disclose information across borders.
Political objectives can motivate state-linked or politically aligned activity such as espionage, influence operations, disruption, and targeting of elections or public services. Security teams should therefore track relevant geopolitical developments as part of threat intelligence, assess whether sanctions or export controls affect tools and suppliers, and map privacy and data-handling obligations across jurisdictions. Political decisions can also change incident-reporting duties, investigative authority, and cooperation with external responders, making legal review part of vulnerability management and incident response planning.
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Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long A member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their answers disappointed.…
Businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula Interview Sovereignty remains a hot topic in the tech industry, but interpretations of what it actually means – and how much it matters – vary widely between organizations and sectors. While public bodies are often driven by regulation and national policy, the private sector tends to take a more pragmatic, cost-focused view.…
Price hikes, politics, and platform fatigue drive organizations back toward open alternatives OpenInfra Summit Sovereignty might be the word of the hour, but the OpenStack community has another – resilience.…
Socio political backdrop is not what it once was.... Opinion UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer directly addressed his new policy of mandatory digital ID in the country for 23 seconds in its effective launch speech.…
Secure your data, avoid US sanctions, and stay compliant with European cybersecurity alternatives Partner Content What happens when your company's future depends on a service controlled by another country that loves trade fights, tariffs, and industrial-scale surveillance? That's the risk for European businesses relying on American providers; a single political move can disrupt operations overnight.…
As the Trump administration guts efforts to counter election disinfo The Russian troll farm that in the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election posted a bizarro video claiming Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was a rhino poacher, is back with hundreds of new fake news websites serving up phony political commentary with an AI assist.…
Fallout from latest political drama sparks a changing of the guard UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer cleared out the officials in charge of tech and digital law in a dramatic cabinet reshuffle at the weekend.…
‘Universities are being used to proxy offensive government operations, turning research access decisions political’ Censys Inc, vendor of the popular Censys internet-mapping tool, has revealed that state-based actors are trying to abuse its services by hiding behind academic researchers.…
Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user's inferred politics and other affiliations OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of the Los Angeles Chargers football team than to followers of other teams.…
Tells The Reg China's ability to p0wn Redmond's wares 'gives me a political aneurysm' Comment Roger Cressey served two US presidents as a senior cybersecurity and counter-terrorism advisor and currently worries he'll experience a "political aneurysm" due to Microsoft's many security messes.…
Infosec issues spill into the real world and regional politics Analysis Thai and Cambodian tensions relating to issues including cybersecurity concerns boiled over into a kinetic skirmish at the border last week.…
PLUS: Perplexity AI scores 360-million-customer win in India; Australian billionaire’s political party suffers data breach, won’t contact victims; and more Asia In Brief Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory last week announced the discovery of a small body with an orbit beyond Pluto’s, and scientists think its presence means the “Planet 9” theory should be revisited.…
President's campaign continues against man he claims covered up evidence of electoral fraud in 2020 Chris Krebs, former CISA director and current political punching bag for the US President, says his Global Entry membership was revoked.…
Top voices warn that political retaliation puts democracy and national defense at risk The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and numerous infosec leaders are lobbying US President Donald Trump to drop his enduring investigation into Chris Krebs, claiming that targeting the former CISA boss amounts to bullying.…
What used to be a serious issue mainly in Southeast Asia is now the world’s problem Scam call centers are metastasizing worldwide "like a cancer," according to the United Nations, which warns the epidemic has reached a global inflection point as syndicates scale up and spread out.…
ProtectEU plan wants to have its cake and eat it too The EU has issued its plans to keep the continent's denizens secure and among the pages of bureaucratese are a few worrying sections that indicate the political union wants to backdoor encryption by 2026, or even sooner.…
National security defense being used to keep appeal behind closed doors US politicians and privacy campaigners are calling for the private hearing between Apple and the UK government regarding its alleged encryption-busting order to be aired in public.…
Neither Labour, Conservatives, nor the Lib Dems offered a retort to rights org's report The Open Rights Group (ORG) has raised concerns about a number of security issues it found in all three of the canvassing apps developed on behalf of the UK's three major political parties.…
No word yet on who was snooped on. Any bets? Chinese cyberspies recorded "very senior" US political figures' calls, according to White House security boss Anne Neuberger.…
The politics of cybersecurity are too important to be left to the politicians Opinion Here's a front-page headline you won't see these days: CHINA'S SPIES ARE TAPPING OUR PHONES. Not that they're not – they are – but, like the environment, there's so much cybersecurity horror in the media that, yes, of course they are. And?…