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Understanding Digital Intelligence: A British View

Understanding Digital Intelligence: A British View

David Omand
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781522579120|ISBN10: 1522579125|EISBN13: 9781522579137
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7912-0.ch029
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Omand, David. "Understanding Digital Intelligence: A British View." National Security: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 590-613. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7912-0.ch029

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Omand, D. (2019). Understanding Digital Intelligence: A British View. In I. Management Association (Ed.), National Security: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 590-613). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7912-0.ch029

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Omand, David. "Understanding Digital Intelligence: A British View." In National Security: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 590-613. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7912-0.ch029

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Abstract

This chapter examines digital intelligence and international views on its future regulation and reform. The chapter summarizes the lead up to the Snowden revelations in terms of how digital intelligence grew in response to changing demands and was enabled by private sector innovation and mediated through legal, Parliamentary and executive regulation. A common set of ethical principles based on human rights considerations to govern modern intelligence activity (both domestic and external) is proposed in the chapter. A three-layer model of security activity on the Internet is used: securing the use of the Internet for everyday economic and social life and for political and military affairs; the activity of law enforcement attempting to manage criminal threats on the Internet; and the work of secret intelligence and security agencies exploiting the Internet to gain information on their targets, including in support of law enforcement.

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