{"id":8,"date":"2023-04-19T23:49:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2023\/ybalci\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2023-05-09T00:19:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T00:19:40","slug":"national-security-a-privacy-problem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2023\/ybalci\/","title":{"rendered":"National Security: A Privacy Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Yasmin Balci<\/p>\n\n\n

Social media now and more than ever is a threat to national security, but the lack of privacy laws protecting citizens' data is the real culprit<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Flag Unitedstates<\/a>” by Brandon Day<\/a>\/ CC0 1.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Congress puts the blame on social media, but not for the reasons you think. Common social media apps such as TikTok are under fire by National Security and Government officials. The nature of these claims is rooted in a lack of trust in China, a war on big tech, a misunderstanding of data privacy, and a lack of comprehensive privacy legislation. Insufficient privacy laws concerning new-age technology serve as the main risk posed to users across all social media platforms. Implementing consumer data privacy laws can give users the right to control their data, but if poorly implemented these laws could also maintain the status quo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the state level, there are currently only three states in the US each with different comprehensive consumer privacy laws: California (CCPA and its amendment, CPRA), Virginia (VCDPA), and Colorado (ColoPA). Regardless of which state a company is located in, the rights provided apply only to the citizens of these states<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thomas Germain – Senior Reporter at Gizmodo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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James Lewis – CSIS SVP Pritzker Chair & Director, Strategic Technologies Program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kelley Green – USC Student<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jonathon Kotler – USC Associate Professor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jamal Brown – TikTok Policy Communications, Americas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInevitably it’s going to be regulated, but I think it’s going to be it’s going to be like kind of like marijuana laws or the way gay marriage was where it’s going to start with the states,\u201d said Jonathan Kotler, an attorney and associate professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. \u201cBecause the states will understand a whole lot better than the federal government..ultimately, you reach a point where it’s been regulated to so many places that the federal government is going to have to get involved, but they’re not going to, they’re going to go kicking and screaming until nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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