BIG DATA EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND INTELLIGENCE – MIAH HAMMOND-ERREY

This book sets out the big‑data landscape—data abundance, digital connectivity and ubiquitous technology—and shows how that landscape and the emerging technologies it fuels are impacting national security. It illustrates that big data is transforming intelligence production while changing the national‑security environment broadly, including what is considered part of national security and the relationships agencies have with the public.

The book highlights the impact of big data on intelligence production and national security from the perspective of Australian national‑security leaders and practitioners. The research is based on empirical data collection, with insights from nearly 50 participants within Australia’s National Intelligence Community. It argues that big data is transforming intelligence and national security and shows that its impacts on the knowledge, activities and organisation of intelligence agencies are challenging some foundational intelligence principles, including the distinction between foreign and domestic intelligence collection. Furthermore, the book contends that big data has created emerging threats to national security; for example, it enables invasive targeting and surveillance, drives information warfare as well as social and political interference, and challenges existing models of harm assessment used in national security. The book maps broad areas of change for intelligence agencies in the national‑security context, explores what they mean for intelligence communities, and examines how agencies relate to the rest of society, considering specific impacts on privacy, ethics and trust.

This book will be of great interest to students of intelligence studies, technology studies, national security and international relations.

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