Year: 2026
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Ballot tabulation by uploading scanned images for OCR is quite insecure
The Georgia legislature recently passed a law banning QR-code ballots in vote tabulation, which is a step in the right direction. But the Georgia Secretary of State’s response is a plan to continue using QR-code ballots, to “tabulate” or “verify” the election results based on uploading the digital ballot images for optical-character recognition. This plan is insecure…
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Introducing the New CITP Non-Resident Technology Fellows 2026 Cohort
The Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) Non-Resident Technology Fellows program is a new initiative that connects experienced technologists to address critical public interest challenges. The inaugural cohort brings together a diverse network of experts with the goal of providing technical expertise to state and local governments tasked with regulating the use of technology.…
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Georgia still using tragicomically insecure voting system
Don’t leave your car key in the glove compartment. And don’t key all the vehicles in your fleet with the same key, and leave that key in every glove compartment. For over a decade 2004-2018, Georgia was using voting machines so insecure it was like having a fleet of vehicles that didn’t even use keys…
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New Technical Briefing: Digital Fingerprinting
Post authors: Stephanie T. Nguyen and Mihir Kshirsagar We published a technical briefing on device fingerprinting as part of a series of plain-language explainers for regulators on technical topics that arise in their work. The brief walks through how fingerprinting works technically, who provides the technology, and why it is spreading. As third-party cookies face…
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Meet the Researcher: Sophie Luskin
Sophie Luskin is an Emerging Scholar at the Princeton Center for Information Technology (CITP) conducting research on regulation, issues, and impacts around generative AI for companionship, social and peer media platforms, age assurance, and consumer privacy to protect users and promote responsible deployment. Her research has been conducted across policy, legal, journalistic, and communications spaces.…
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Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
Signed by a group of 21 computer scientists expert in election security Executive summary Scientists have understood for many years that internet voting is insecure and that there is no known or foreseeable technology that can make it secure. Still, vendors of internet voting keep claiming that, somehow, their new system is different, or the insecurity…