Gavin Murphy discusses the origins of corporate “personhood”—the idea that corporations have some of the same rights as individual people. Specifically, the paper examines the sequencing of events that have led to the current way that corporations have entangled themselves into the American political system, and the potential risks that accompany this current approach.
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Social Media and Information Warfare: The New Front
Tiffany Pham discusses the evolution of social media platforms and content from information-sharing spaces to a communication medium that is being used both as a propaganda tool and a tactical weapon during conflicts. Social media has created a new warfront in geopolitical conflicts where opposing sides engage in a form of combat with consequences that are both physical and destructive. The weaponization of social media has presented itself in multiple ways, and can have far-reaching impacts during almost any type of conflict.
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Emily O’Neill discusses how deepfakes—pictures, videos or other recording that is altered with AI—have become a rapidly advancing technology with a range of criminal applications. Deepfake risk management remains critically under-examined in the current literature. As such, this paper aims to add to the conversation by exploring the risks deepfakes pose to the private sector as well as identifying corresponding mitigation techniques.
Read MoreAn Analysis of the Indian Adoption Project and Current Migrant Family Separation Policies
Amanda Phillips discusses the devastating failures of the U.S. government to properly implement information management principles during the enactment of family separation policies, both as part of the Indian Adoption Project of 1958 and the separation of migrant families in 2018. Like Native American tribes have experienced for the last 50+ years, the children of asylum seekers and other migrant families have been separated from their loved ones, through information management failures, many of these children have been systematically deprived of their parents and culture as a result. Consequently, a new generation of vulnerable children face the increased risk of experiencing cultural genocide due to the U.S. separation policies resulting in a loss of fundamental cultural knowledge systems, languages, and identities.
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