Spies, Lies, and Algorithms by Amy B. Zegart

Author:Amy B. Zegart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

Connectivity: More Information Available to More People

The second major trend democratizing nuclear threat intelligence is the Internet, which has powered an explosion in open-source information and the connectivity to make it widely available and sharable. In 2000, approximately 15 percent of the world’s population was connected to the Internet.51 Today, more than half the world is online, and more people are estimated to have mobile phones than access to running water.52 Connectivity is turning everyday citizens into intelligence collectors, whether they know it or not. There’s also metadata—such as the time, location, and equipment used to take a photograph posted online—downloadable 3D modeling applications, and community data sharing sites like OpenStreetMap, which allows users to post their GPS coordinates from their phones. All of these capabilities offer new clues and tools for nuclear sleuths.

As discussed more below, the online information ecosystem is making possible exciting new opportunities for societal verification or open crowdsourcing to assess nuclear threat information. But it is also making deception easier. In the new online ecosystem, information anywhere can go viral, regardless of its quality or credibility.

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