We produce content centered on government law, regulation, spending across the global. Our focus is around the U.S.A and other western societies with transparent laws and regulatory practices. Governments around the globe are facing unprecedented challenges. Global economies have never been more integrated; however, international law and government cooperation has not followed the same progression. We consolidate, analyze, and digest all kinds of data from around the world, where ever available. Through the courts, international agreements, treaties, and commerce, we can find trends and commonalities in laws and regulations among nations. While it can be difficult to keep pace with global matters, we strive to highlight what is relevant today and beneficial in understanding governments around the world.
Global business operations create constant international activity. Countries that do business together must fundamentally have formal government relations. Governments have taken steps to protect the business interests of their citizens as they work internationally; however, those efforts were traditionally isolated to large corporations in a few industries, like oil and gas, import / export, and manufacturing. The need for government support in international business is now expanded to every industry and every business from small online shops up to the multi-national enterprises.
Just as the science and technology revolution is changing business, it is also changing criminal activity. Crime is increasingly digital and increasingly international. The rapid escalation of hacking, ransomware, identity theft, and sophisticated online scams that cross international borders are straining government’s ability to both prevent crime and enforce law. Enforcement of laws must extend beyond their own country’s borders and jurisdictions, requiring multi-nationalism at a scale never attempted before in history. As cyber crimes continue to grow in scale and complexity, international laws and multi-national enforcement will be a major challenge for governments, especially with numerous countries providing safe-harbor and even government funding for cyber-crime networks..
Like many other rapidly evolving science and technology advances, there is little to no government regulation. The traditional government approach is to allow free and open enterprise and then react to criminal acts with law enforcement. Often, this is a very slow cycle, sometimes taking years to create laws and implement effective enforcement. For both technology and scientific inventions, this approach often fails, where the technology evolves faster than effective enforcement measures. Technology is challenging the fundamental approach to enforcement of law and the ability of government to protect its citizens from criminal activity. Every government must development methods to predict and prevent illegal use of technical and scientific advancements, especially in the areas of privacy, free speech, genetics, healthcare, investments, cyber security, freedom of the press, misinformation, and election security.
All governments are creating data everyday through its simple operation. This data is providing more detailed records of how much the government is spending and how it is functioning. Access to this additional information is making it easier to hold governments accountable and increasing transparency of government programs. Public records now include email, text messages, social media activity, electronic files, digital media, metadata, location information, and a wide range of other information not available to the public only 20 years ago. Nothing has had a more powerful impact on government accountability than the proliferation of the mobile device with a camera and an internet-connection. Citizens can document and share government actions in real-time. International action can be sparked from one citizen's post on social media. Oppressive governments across the world are trying to limit, monitor, and control the internet, communication networks, and devices, yet technology continues to advance and thwart these efforts. More intelligence is available today than ever before, largely because of the citizens themselves and their ability to communicate with the rest of the world.
This massive expansion of digital information by government agencies has equally created national security vulnerabilities. The last decade has seen numerous and massive unlawful leaks of government information, from Wikileaks to Snowden to Vault 7 to Crypto AG. Governments across the world are in an escalating cyber security arms race, trying to simultaneously protect their national security secrets and steal them from other countries, all while increasing the amount of technology used in nearly every government agency and function.
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