Welcome to The Cyber Advocate’s 2016 Elections Coverage!
They want your vote, but for whatever reason, politicians at all levels just don’t feel like discussing technology this year! So to help out, I’ve gathered information on five key technology issues from the positions and public statements (or lack thereof) of candidates for president and the competitive races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and Governor.
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President of the United States
Major Party Candidates
Sources
- Where do the Presidential Candidates Stand – Yahoo Tech
- Presidential Candidates are Talking About Surveillance Post Paris Attacks – Think Progress
- Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s Cybersecurity Platform – Lifehacker
- Trump, Donald, Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again (2011)
- Where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Stand on Tech Issues – NBC News
- 2016 Candidates: Broadband, Net Neutrality, and Internet Infrastructure
- 2015 CNN/Salem Republican two-tier debate , Dec 15, 2015
Third Party Candidates
United States Senate
Florida
Sources
Indiana
Kentucky
Missouri
Nevada
Sources
- Catherine Cortez Mastro for Senate
- Joe Heck for U.S. Senate
- OnTheIssues.org
- Ballotpedia.org
- 2016 Senate Scorecard – ENGINE
- John Ensign’s crusade against an equal web access mandate has gone viral in Congress – Las Vegas Sun
- Cortez Masto plans to follow Reid into US senate seat – Pahrump Valley Times
- Office of the Nevada Attorney General
New Hampshire
Sources
- Maggie Hassan for Senate
- Kelly Ayotte for New Hampshire
- OnTheIssues.org
- Ballotpedia.org
- 2016 Senate Scorecard – ENGINE
- http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2015/1117/After-Paris-attacks-lawmakers-seek-greater-access-to-encrypted-data
- https://www.ayotte.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1230
- https://www.ayotte.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2250
- https://www.ayotte.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2082
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Sources
- Katie McGinty: Democrat for Senate
- Pat Toomey for Senate
- OnTheIssues.org
- Ballotpedia.org
- 2016 Senate Scorecard – ENGINE
- http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2016/04/05/Debate-in-Senate-race-brings-out-differences/stories/201604060115
- http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/off-mic/88261-pa-senate-candidates-on-isis
- http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/capitolinq/Toomey-votes-against-bill-to-curtail-.html
United States House of Representatives
Arizona 1st
California 25th
California 49th
Colorado 6th
Sources
- Morgan Carroll for Congress
- Mike Coffman for Congress
- OnTheIssues.org
- Ballotpedia.org
- http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/04/25/government-surveillance-hot-topic-in-colorado/
- http://www.craigdailypress.com/news/2012/oct/10/colorado-congressmen-condemn-actions-middle-mile-b/
- http://chaffetz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=276
Florida 7th
Florida 18th
Florida 26th
Illinois 10th
Sources
- Brad Schneider for Congress
- Bob Dold for Congress
- OnTheIssues.org
- Ballotpedia.org
- http://www.wlsam.com/2016/02/10/dold-and-nerheim-new-technology-can-help-solve-crimes/
Iowa 1st
Sources
- Monica Vernon for Congress
- Rod Blum for Congress
- OnTheIssues.org
- Ballotpedia.org
- http://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/guest-columnists/vernon-real-progress-for-iowa-families-20161023
- http://c3.thevoterguide.org/v/cedarrapids16/race-detail.do?id=14586369
- https://vikingvpn.com/blogs/politics/us-senate-panel-hearings-on-encryption-technology-are-disastrous-for-the-fbi
- http://www.law360.com/articles/723620/congress-didn-t-want-net-neutrality-gop-tells-dc-circ
Maine 2nd
Minnesota 2nd
Nebraska 2nd
Nevada 3rd
New Jersey 5th
New York 19th
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New York 22nd
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Pennsylvania 8th
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Texas 23rd
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Governor
Indiana
Missouri
Montana
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New Hampshire
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North Carolina
Sources
- Roy Cooper: Stand for North Carolina
- Pat McCrory for Governor
- OnTheIssues.org
- Ballotpedia.org
- http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article10044707.html
- http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article89362372.html
- https://governor.nc.gov/press-release/governor-mccrory-releases-state-broadband-plan
- http://statescoop.com/north-carolina-moves-closer-to-creating-cybersecurity-apprenticeship-program-for-disabled-vets
Vermont
West Virginia
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About the Author
Brian Focht is a civil litigation attorney and technology enthusiast. In addition to being the author of The Cyber Advocate, he is also the producer and host of the Legal Technology Review podcast, and co-founder of B&R Concepts, a small business technology consulting company.
2016 Elections: The 5 Technology Topics
This topic concerns the candidates’ positions concerning the expansion of our current system of broadband and wireless communication. Included in this topic are issues of public vs. private expansion of broadband, adoption of new wireless communication standards, and the upgrade and maintenance of our country’s infrastructure in general.
This topic seeks to understand the candidates’ positions regarding the privacy we should expect for our digital data. This topic includes issues such as government surveillance programs, the scope of the government’s authority, what and how data is to be shared between the government and private entities, and how data should be exchanged between governments.
This topic focuses primarily on how the candidates would approach the recent hot-button issue of encryption raised by the Apple v. DOJ case, and whether the candidate supports legislation requiring technology companies to build in backdoor access to their encrypted systems.
This topic seeks to gain some basic understanding about how each candidate would address the need to protect public and private data from hackers and foreign governments, and how the candidate would wield our government’s immense cyber warfare capabilities.
This topic looks at each candidate’s view on how the internet itself should operate, primarily through the perspective of the FCC’s Open Internet Order. While this topic primarily addresses the candidate’s perspective on private ISPs being able to control the flow of information by filtering, throttling, or providing preferential treatment to certain content, this topic also addresses how the candidates feel the internet should operate internationally, as well.