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How Technologists in Government Could Shape Better Tech Policy

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  • Andrew Eversden
| Aug. 09, 2019

The resounding message out of BSides Las Vegas and Black Hat — two information security conferences that took place the week of Aug. 5 — is that government is falling far short in the technology space.

The underlying problem, said Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, is that policymakers don't understand the technology and don't have members on their staff with expertise....

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For Academic Citation: Eversden, Andrew. “How Technologists in Government Could Shape Better Tech Policy.” Federal Times, August 9, 2019.

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