Bellevue Week 9 assignment use of newspeak (aka doublespeak)

Your paper this week is about the use of newspeak (aka doublespeak) in today’s political and corporate worlds. Consider the following*:

Would it actually be possible to fight a Cyber-war at the level of semantics? (Orwell wrote: “In Newspeak it was seldom possible to follow a heretical thought further than the perception that it was heretical: beyond that point the necessary words were nonexistent.”)
If words such as “firewall” and “intrusion detection system” did not exist, would attackers have targets?
To what degree do you think the United States is already adopting ‘Newspeak’ as its official political language? (Is the US PATRIOT ACT, the Patriot Act – or is it Newspeak?)
Is “politically correct” language Newspeak?

Read/Review

Raul, Charles., The Privacy, Data Protection, and Cybersecurity Law Review (November 2014). Page 268-280 https://www.sidley.com/~/media/files/publications/2014/11/the-privacy-data-protection-and-cybersecurity-la__/files/united-states/fileattachment/united-states.pdf
Mooty, Gray Plant. A Legal Guide to Privacy and Data Security (Page 1, pages 19-30, page 111, pages 147-153), https://www.gpmlaw.com/portalresource/A_Legal_Guide_to_TECHNOLOGY_TRANSACTIONS.pdf
Dept of Justice, Prosecuting Cyber Crimes, Identity Theft: 18 U.S.C. § 1028(a)(7), Pages 96 – 101, http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/docs/ccmanual.pdf

Supplementary Material

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) – https://epic.org/
NIST. De-Identification of Personal Information (skim). https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2015/NIST.IR.8053.pdf
Pew Research The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online (read only “themes” and “sub-theme” intro paragraphs: http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2017/10/19095643/PI_2017.10.19_Future-of-Truth-and-Misinformation_FINAL.pdf
Orwell, Principles of Newspeak,http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app
Libicki, Martin C., Conquest in Cyberspace, Chapter 6 & 7