Dark Reading Confidential

Cyber's Role in the Rapid Rise of Digital Authoritarianism

Dark Reading Confidential

Show Notes

Enterprise cyber teams are in prime position to push back against our current "Golden Age of Surveillance," according to our guests Ronald Deibert from Citizen Lab and David Greene from the EFF.

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