Over 95% of international data, including financial transactions, military communications, and daily internet traffic, travel through submarine cables laid on the ocean floor (Wall & Morcos, 2021). Although this critical

TikTok’s video-sharing app has become the epicenter of a growing American debate over the boundaries of civil liberties and the imperatives of national security in the digital age. With over

Vietnam is vulnerable to cyber attacks from Chinese hackers due to the dispute over the South China Sea (Trinh, 2025; Borten, 2024). Although Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam all

Singapore is a highly connected, influential cyber actor with a strong domestic cybersecurity framework and an active role in international internet governance. It follows a multi-stakeholder model, balancing state oversight

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act operationalizes a risk-based governance logic that is now permeating international AI frameworks, although unevenly. While some of the Act’s tiered risk taxonomy remains largely

Since its independence in 1971, Bangladesh has steadily advanced technologically, achieving 99.4% electrification, connecting 44.5% of its population to the internet, expanding subsea cable infrastructure, and pursuing a vision of

The rapid proliferation of autonomous weapon systems (AWS) in warfare offers a glimpse into the transformative potential and the ethical dilemmas of AWS. For instance, during the ongoing conflict in

Subsea cables cover over 900,000 miles of sea floor from the Atlantic to Pacific. These small, fiber-optic cables are responsible for carrying 99% of global internet data traffic, facilitating connection

In 2016, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarter in Washington DC, was a victim of Russian hacking attacks leading to a data dump of internal emails and leaks of critical

23andMe experienced a data breach that exposed over seven million of its customers’ genetic information in 2023 (DeGeurin, 2024). The data breach severely affected 23andMe’s reputation and caused 23andMe to