Security News > 2022 > February > Amy Zegart on Spycraft in the Internet Age

Amy Zegart has a new book: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence.

The intelligence playing field is leveling­ - and not in a good way.

Intelligence collectors are everywhere, and government spy agencies are drowning in data.

Intelligence used to be a race for insight where great powers were the only ones with the capabilities to access secrets.

The intelligence mission meant gathering secrets so we knew more about adversaries than they knew about us, and keeping how we gathered secrets a secret too.

Increasingly, national security requires intelligence agencies to engage the outside world, not stand apart from it.

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