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Provide an executive briefing (1-2 pages) on any of the topics covered in the second three sessions. Memo must include an ethical view on the issue and how you can assimilate your personal ethical grounding to deriving your opinion and/or assessment of the issue.
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Session 1: Ethics and Technology
Objectives:
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Apply ethical philosophies to real-world policy issues.
Understand how the public and private sectors interact on national security issues.
Explain how ethical issues relate to your own career.
Agenda:
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Apply ethical philosophies to real-world policy issues.
Understand how the public and private sectors interact on national security issues.
Explain how ethical issues relate to your own career.
Guest Lecturer: Spencer Fisher
▪ General Counsel at Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security at DHS.
Required Reading:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bIys6JoEDw (Kant & Categorical Imperatives:
Crash Course Philosophy)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/two-iphones-or-privacy-billions-whyapple-vs-fbi- matters-n1118001 (Apple vs. FBI)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/14/azimuth-sanbernardino-apple- iphone-fbi/ (Apple and FBI battle)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biodata-dna-china-collection60-minutes-2021-0131/atters (China and DNA)
Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones, Gizmodo,
2018. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-helping-the-pentagon-build-ai-for-drones1823464533 (Links to an external site.)
Recommended Reading: None
Session 2: Accountability and Abuse
Objectives:
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Understand key accountability mechanisms in government and when/why
they fail.
Explore options for dealing with fraud, waste, and abuse.
Understand motivations behind unauthorized disclosures and the outcomes.
Agenda:
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Introduction: How Do We Hold the Executive Branch Accountable?
Examples of Bureaucratic Waste and Underperformance
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Whistleblowers and Unauthorized Disclosures
Guest Lecture: TBD
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https://www.justsecurity.org/79579/ssci-could-shake-up-the-intelligencecommunitys- whistleblowing-system/ (Whistleblower protection enhancements)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX2YMB6dWJw (John Kiriakou, CIA
whistleblower)
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CRPT113srpt288.pdf (Senate Report on CIA Interrogation Program)
https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ukraine-clearinghousewhistleblower-complaint-aug-12-2019.pdf (Whistleblower letter to Congress)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/marine-sarah-feinbergwhistleblower-booz- allen-69-million-rcna102098
Recommended Reading: None
Session 3: Privacy, Technology, and the Surveillance State
Objectives:
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Develop your views on security and privacy rights.
Understand changes in law that were prompted by unauthorized
disclosures.
Understand the potential for government use of predictive algorithms.
Guest Lecturer: Michael Ellis
• General at Rumble. Formerly served as Senior Director of The National Security Counsel at
the White House. Was in charge of all intelligence programs within the United States
Required Reading:
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https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/rolling-back-post-911surveillance- state (Memo on growth of U.S. Government surveillance)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/04/surveillance-state-september11-panic- made-us-vulnerable (Did September 11 cause the surveillance state?)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/big-tech-call-center-workers-facepressure- accept-home-surveillance-n1276227 (Work from home company
surveillance)
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/ethics-ofsurveillance/ethics.html
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/16/facebook-spyingsurveillancenotification/ (Facebook surveillance notification to users)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VkKeM-OK6g (Documentary…the current
state of
surveillance)
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/01/09/data-privacy-vsdata- security-four-implications-for-business-leaders/?sh=2532e7c46afa
Recommended Reading: None
Assignments:
1. Briefing Memo 2: Provide executive briefing (1-2 pages) on any of the topics
covered in the second three sessions. Memo must include an ethical view on the
issue and how you can assimilate your personal ethical grounding to deriving your
opinion and/or assessment of the issue. (Due by February 23trd 11:59 p.m.)
2. Discussion Board: In the context of law enforcement or national security, who is
best positioned to determine whether the use of this technology and surveillance
infringes on the right to privacy? Comment on at least two other responses.
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