The questions about the initiative's privacy policies also apply to its role in surveying government networks, says Jim Lewis, a former foreign service official and director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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"There's a vulnerability in every system, " says James Lewis, researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a public policy research organization in Washington, D.

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