Personal Data and Government Surveillance

In September 2013, the US National Academy of Sciences, on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, concluded that cybersecurity should be seen as an occupation and not a profession because the rate of change is too great to consider professionalization. That rate of change is why cybersecurity is perhaps the most intellectually demanding occupation on the planet. The fundamental intellectual challenge might be understood by narrowing our focus to one class of tradeoffs in cybersecurity: personal data and the government.