ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of Big Tech’s business strategies and political goals and their impact on the governance of national security. It argues that in the pursuit of personal gain, Big Tech moulded society according to its needs in order to become the actual rulers, equipped to take on the most powerful countries. It also exploits the effects of copyright and copyright-based business models, that have also become a geopolitical weapon in the State’s arsenal and a Trojan Horse to pass the control of national security into the private sector’s hands. Finally, it examines the role of ‘digital mercenaries.’
