Online, Vulnerable Groups Only Become More Vulnerable

Disruptions and threats to an individual’s digital security have profound impacts on that individual’s willingness to use technology—a particularly big problem when you consider just how much technology permeates people’s everyday lives.

[Spandana Singh is a policy program associate in New America's Open Technology Institute, where she researches and reports on policies and practices related to content regulation, transparency reporting, privacy, surveillance, countering violent extremism, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies. Dillon Roseen was a Millennial Public Policy Fellow in New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative.]