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.