Spatial Data and Cybersecurity: From Asset to Attack Surface
Summary of Louai Alarabi’s World Economic Forum article on why spatial data now underpins logistics, cities, disaster response, and national security—and why its confidentiality, integrity, and availability require layered cybersecurity across governance, technical controls, threat intelligence, and emerging tools like AI, blockchain, and privacy-preserving analytics.
When Data Becomes Law: How Governments Use Information as a Regulatory Tool
This blog post explores the provocative thesis that data—how it is gathered, released, or suppressed—can serve as a powerful instrument of public policy. Drawing from Janet Freilich and W. Nicholson Price II’s forthcoming article Data as Policy, we examine the regulatory role of government-provided data in law, innovation, and society.
2023 Investigation Reveals U.S. Military Members’ Personal Data Being Sold to Overseas Buyers
A West Point-backed study reported by Politico finds that U.S. servicemembers’ personal data is being sold to foreign buyers by data brokers, posing serious national security threats.
Transforming Data Architecture: An Overview of the Army’s Unified Data Reference Architecture Report
Explore the U.S. Army's Unified Data Reference Architecture (UDRA) report, a comprehensive guide to modernizing data architecture. Learn about the data mesh concept, data domains, data products, and the automated services that support a more agile, interoperable, and data-driven organization. Discover the guiding principles and the role of computational governance in this transformative approach