Hope4Sec also carry out strategic analyses in the digital field, always with the protection of privacy, freedom and human values as our primary motivation. These strategic analyses are conducted either at the request of clients or by and for ourselves. Contact us for further details.
Scientific and technical knowledge alone is not enough. Strategic knowledge alone, without an awareness of what the technology can do to deal with complex and difficult environments, is also insufficient. One needs to understand the environment in which a technological solution can be developed. It is also necessary to understand what technology can do to solve society, economic and strategic problems. Societal trends, technological barriers and future market needs must be identified as early as possible.
Moreover, strategic thinking about the technological choices to be made is left exclusively to political decision-makers who readily turn to foreign consultancy agencies that defend divergent interests. If engineering is to be a carrier of our own values, we need to understand the real (and changing) nature of the world. And we must be able to help our clients across the spectrum. The engineer must (re)develop a deep knowledge of the world within the framework of strong and assertive human values.
List of analyses and reports carried out to date:
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Unfair and anti-competitive practices of the Net/Tech Giants. We have studied in detail the often unfair and anti-competitive practices of the Net/Tech Giants in the provision of solutions/products/services, whether in marketplaces or products related to IT security, which aim to create dependencies that European companies will find difficult to escape.
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Techniques of Hegemony and predatory techniques by dominant actors. We have analysed in depth the various techniques (legal, political, economic) used by a dominant state/company to monopolise or control a technological or industrial field, to ensure its hegemony or to weaken a competitor country, to identify and buy up promising start-ups before the latter have even realised their value.
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Analysis of the EU-US new data-sharing pact. This new framework for cross-border data transfer to replace the late Privacy shield has been analysed. We show that EU Data will still be at risk more than ever.
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Strategic and Technical Analysis of UN Cybercrime Convention Project.