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Barcodes on paper ballots: the good, the bad, and the stealth

2024-04-10 19:05

Five Themes Discussed at Princeton’s Workshop on Decentralized Social Media

2024-03-19 22:33

2024-03-18 13:30

Announcing the Open Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration Project

2024-02-13 19:03

Securing the Web PKI

2023-12-21 18:13

Building the Society We Want: A CITP Conference

2023-12-18 19:47

Rising Juniors and Seniors – Do you want to make an impact with public interest technology this summer?

2023-11-20 17:12

CITP is hiring for multiple positions, including professor, fellow and Emerging Scholar. Join us!

2023-10-10 19:27

We’re hiring an assistant, associate or full professor!

2023-10-10 19:27

Switzerland’s e-voting system has predictable implementation blunder

2023-10-06 15:43

How to Promote Responsible Open Foundation Models

2023-10-03 18:00

A reasonably priced Ballot On Demand system from Hart Intercivic

2023-09-15 15:34

We have job openings!

2023-09-11 20:50

Searcy County Arkansas switches to hand-marked paper ballots

2023-08-19 20:14

ExpressVote XL “fix” doesn’t fix anything

2023-07-28 20:03

CITP Comments on AI Accountability

2023-06-15 18:47

Security Analysis of the Dominion ImageCast X

2023-06-14 17:11

States Sending Data to TikTok from Government Websites Despite Concerns

2023-06-05 21:30

Unsealing the Halderman report would be Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure

2023-05-12 13:48

Willful disregard of voter intent in Los Angeles

2023-05-08 13:44

Expensive and ineffective recounts in Los Angeles County

2023-05-05 13:48

Best practices for sorting mail-in ballots

2023-05-03 14:24

Sort the mail-in ballot envelopes, or don’t?

2023-05-01 14:00

Decoding China’s Ambitious Generative AI Regulations

2023-04-16 11:45

Can ChatGPT—and its successors—go from cool to tool?

2023-03-08 17:47

Unrecoverable Election Screwup in Williamson County TX

2023-02-17 00:59

CITP Tech Clinic Files Amicus Brief In Gonzalez v. Google Case

2022-12-19 18:00

Next Steps for Mercer County Following Voting-Machine Failure

2022-12-14 21:01

Why the voting machines failed in Mercer County

2022-12-01 13:12

CITP Seeks Postdocs for Fellows Program

2022-11-23 14:38

CITP is Hiring a Professor

2022-11-17 15:30

Princeton CITP Launches the Digital Witness Lab to Help Journalists Track Bad Actors on Platforms

2022-11-07 17:07

An Introduction to My Project: Algorithmic Amplification and Society

2022-11-03 19:38

We’re Hiring CITP Fellows!

2022-10-13 18:20

Cross-Layer Security: A Holistic View of Internet Security

2022-09-20 15:36

We are releasing three longitudinal datasets of Yelp review recommendations with over 2.5M unique reviews.

2022-09-14 16:26

Is Internet Voting Secure? The Science and the Policy Battles

2022-09-12 16:52

Recommendations for Updating the FTC’s Disclosure Guidelines to Combat Dark Patterns

2022-08-10 19:23

The anomaly of cheap complexity

2022-08-03 18:09

Magical thinking about Ballot-Marking-Device contingency plans

2022-07-21 13:00

Toward Trustworthy Machine Learning: An Example in Defending against Adversarial Patch Attacks (2)

2022-07-19 13:00

New Study Analyzing Political Advertising on Facebook, Google, and TikTok

2022-07-14 13:10

New Study Analyzing Political Advertising on Facebook, Google, and TikTok

2022-07-14 13:10

Toward Trustworthy Machine Learning: An Example in Defending against Adversarial Patch Attacks

2022-07-12 13:19

Switzerland’s E-voting: The Threat Model

2022-07-01 12:35

What the Assessments Say About the Swiss E-voting System

2022-06-30 13:00

How the Swiss Post E-voting system addresses client-side vulnerabilities

2022-06-29 13:00

How NOT to Assess an E-voting System

2022-06-28 13:00

How to Assess an E-voting System

2022-06-27 13:00

Most top websites are not following best practices in their password policies

2022-06-22 21:11

Dcentral vs. Consensus: Are institutions “frens” or enemies of crypto?

2022-06-16 19:22

Improving Your Relationship with Social Media May Call for a Targeted Approach

2022-06-01 13:47

A PDF File Is Not Paper, So PDF Ballots Cannot Be Verified

2022-05-19 18:54

ES&S uses undergraduate project to lobby New York legislature

2022-05-12 15:20

ES&S Uses Undergraduate Project to Lobby New York Legislature on Risky Voting Machines

2022-05-12 15:20

ES&S Uses Undergraduate Project to Lobby New York Legislature To Keep Risky Voting Machines

2022-05-12 15:20

Will Web3 Follow in the Footsteps of the AI Hype Cycle?

2022-05-04 19:08

A Multi-pronged Strategy for Securing Internet Routing

2022-04-19 19:10

How the National AI Research Resource can steward the datasets it hosts

2022-04-12 15:40

CITP Case Study on Regulating Facial Recognition Technology in Canada

2022-04-07 15:58

Recommendations for introducing greater safeguards and transparency into CS conference funding

2022-03-23 16:03

Holding Purveyors of “Dark Patterns” for Online Travel Bookings Accountable

2022-03-21 14:05

The tech industry controls CS conference funding. What are the dangers?

2022-03-11 18:06

Attackers exploit fundamental flaw in the web’s security to steal $2 million in cryptocurrency

2022-03-09 20:00

Calling for Investing in Equitable AI Research in Nation’s Strategic Plan

2022-03-09 17:18

T’Mobile: Deleting Stale Data Reduces Liability

2022-02-10 19:23

“Signal Loss” and advertising privacy on Facebook

2021-11-22 14:00

Faculty search in information technology policy

2021-11-19 14:30

CITP Emerging Scholars Application is Open

2021-11-18 18:20

Could quantum computers be cost-effective by 2036?

2021-11-15 17:00

Another 2020 lawsuit over internet voting

2021-11-04 15:00

Four 2020 lawsuits over internet voting

2021-10-29 13:00

CITP Call for Fellows 2022-23

2021-10-18 13:10

National AI Research Infrastructure Needs to Support Independent Evaluation of Performance Claims

2021-09-02 18:39

We need a personal digital advocate

2021-08-31 20:49

It’s still practically impossible to secure your computer (or voting machine) against attackers who have 30 minutes of access

2021-08-13 12:28

Facebook’s Illusory Promise of Transparency

2021-08-05 19:58

Studying the societal impact of recommender systems using simulation

2021-08-04 12:50

Warnings That Work: Combating Misinformation Without Deplatforming

2021-07-26 14:01

New Hampshire Election Audit, part 2

2021-06-07 12:00

New Hampshire Election Audit, part 1

2021-06-02 12:37

Accommodating voters with disabilities

2021-05-27 13:03

Phone number recycling creates serious security and privacy risks to millions of people

2021-05-03 17:57

Internet Voting is Still Inherently Insecure

2021-04-27 18:36

Juan Gilbert’s Transparent BMD

2021-04-12 10:00

Expert analysis of Antrim County, Michigan

2021-04-05 10:00

How lever-action voting machines really worked

2021-04-01 06:00

CITP is Hiring a Communications Manager

2021-03-26 18:55

AI Nation podcast, from CITP and WHYY

2021-03-15 12:30

Voting Machine Hashcode Testing: Unsurprisingly insecure, and surprisingly insecure

2021-03-05 11:47

Georgia’s election certification avoided an even worse nightmare that’s just waiting to happen next time

2021-02-01 12:00

Using an Old Model for New Questions on Influence Operations

2021-01-27 19:46

CITP’s Summer Fellowship Program for Training Public Interest Technologists

2021-01-21 14:54

ESS voting machine company sends threats

2021-01-11 12:56

New Research on Privacy and Security Risks of Remote Learning Software

2020-12-15 19:12

How programmers communicate through code, legally

2020-11-23 14:19

Did Sean Hannity misquote me?

2020-11-13 17:05

New Jersey gets ballot-tracking only half right

2020-11-11 18:18

CITP call for the postdoctoral track of the CITP Fellows Program 2021-22

2020-11-09 21:32

Facial recognition datasets are being widely used despite being taken down due to ethical concerns. Here’s how.

2020-10-21 17:11

Federal judge denies injunction, so 7 states won’t be forced to accept internet ballot return

2020-10-13 20:41

Election Security and Transparency in 2020

2020-09-24 17:07

Vote-by-mail meltdowns in 2020?

2020-09-20 19:12

Election Audits in NJ 2020

2020-09-16 19:06

Voting by mail in NJ 2020

2020-09-12 14:57

GPT-3 Raises Complex Questions for Philosophy and Policy

2020-08-13 13:14

Can the exfiltration of personal data by web trackers be stopped?

2020-07-14 20:45

Safely opening PDFs received by e-mail (or fax?!)

2020-06-24 12:32

NJ agrees No Internet voting in July, vague about November

2020-06-20 20:48

Democracy Live internet voting: unsurprisingly insecure, and surprisingly insecure

2020-06-08 13:57

Emergency Motion to Stop Internet Voting in NJ

2020-05-20 17:59

Fair Elections During a Crisis

2020-04-28 16:03

Can Legislatures Safely Vote by Internet?

2020-04-10 17:27

Vulnerability reporting is dysfunctional

2020-03-25 19:00

Building a Bridge with Concrete… Examples

2020-03-23 18:55

The CheapBit of Fitness Trackers Apps

2020-03-16 22:31

Ballot-level comparison audits: BMD

2020-03-13 18:00

Finding a randomly numbered ballot

2020-03-11 06:00

Why we can’t do random selection the other way round in PCOS RLAs

2020-03-09 18:00