Susan Ariel Aaronson
Biography
New America/GWU
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A Difficult Balance Privacy, National Security and the Free Flow of DataTimes and technologies change, people change and national positions evolve. Although change is inevitable, and can be gradual or radical, many people find change jarring. America’s evolving position on the free flow of data provides a good example because it looked like the world’s leader of efforts to encourage the free flow and utilization of data was advocating for greater restrictions on openness. This paper examines how and why this occurred.