Ok. Good evening everyone. Thank you for coming out to the forum. Tonight we have a great group of guests to talk about the digital threat to democracy or what youll probably hear most often called the threat to Digital Democracy. You will see the group with gathered here today literally are the leading experts in a very complicated field. So were likely they were all willing to come up here and talk about all of the things that make up a Digital Democracy and the threat to it right now. You all know what that is. Things related to the First Amendment and speech, privacy, technology, the systems that underpin that and most importantly, our electoral democratic governance which was what was under attack in 20 and earlier. We will talk a little bit about that. I would like to introduce myself. Cambridge about six weeks now. In a past life, i was the department i was in charge of all things cyber at the pentagon. This is an issue that really resonates very strongly in my heart and in my g
Gathered here today literally are the leading experts in a very complicated field. We are lucky they were all willing to come up here and talk about all of the things that make up Digital Democracy and the threat to it right now. You all know what that is. Those are things related to the First Amendment free speech, the Fourth Amendment privacy, to technology and the systems that underpin that and most importantly, our electoral system of democratic governance, which is what was under attack in 2016 and earlier. We are going to talk little bit about that. I would like to very briefly introduce myself. I am the codirector of the Belford Center for science and international affairs. Ive been in cambridge about six weeks now. I just moved up from d. C. In a past life, i was the department of defense chief of staff and a six and secretary and assistant secretary of defense, where i was in charge of all things cyber at the pentagon. This is an issue that really resonates very strongly in my
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