Category: Privacy & Security
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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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Hard Choices: CITP Workshop on Payment Systems at the Global DPI Summit in Capetown, South Africa
Authored by Mihir Kshirsagar, Jeremy McKey, and Felix Chen On November 5, 2025, Princeton CITP and the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India (CGI), in partnership with AfricaNenda, will convene an interactive workshop at the Global DPI Summit 2025 to examine the difficult trade-offs governments face when designing national payment systems. The session, Hard Choices…
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Meet the Researcher: Sam Hafferty
Sam Hafferty is part of the 2024 – 2026 Emerging Scholar Program cohort at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). Hafferty is contributing to work concerning data privacy regulation and broadband equity. Princeton undergraduate Jason Persaud ‘27 recently sat down with Hafferty to discuss how they got started in this type of work,…
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The “Bubble” of Risk: Improving Assessments for Offensive Cybersecurity Agents
Authored by Boyi Wei Most frontier models today undergo some form of safety testing, including whether they can help adversaries launch costly cyberattacks. But many of these assessments overlook a critical factor: adversaries can adapt and modify models in ways that expand the risk far beyond the perceived safety profile that static evaluations capture. At…
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Paper fingerprinting and ballot tracking
In part 1 of this 2-part series I explained: Some election-integrity advocates have suggested that, in addition to good chain-of-custody procedures for ballots between when they’re cast and when they’re counted (or recounted), we should have better control over what paper (and paper ballots) go into the polling place. This way, if fraudulent ballots got…
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Flaky paper won’t secure our elections without a protocol to go with it
Part 1 of a 2-part series. In this part, why just printing ballots on special paper won’t help much. In part 2, how special paper could have a role if the rest of the system were developed to go with it. How can we best ensure that the ballots tallied are the same ones that…
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Meet the Researcher: Mona Wang
Mona Wang is a Princeton Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy. Wang recently sat down with undergraduate student Tsion Kergo ‘26 for an interview where they discussed her research into surveillance technologies, what developed her interest in cryptography, and warns about the security risks of social…
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Fact-checking or Community Notes? Why not both! – TechTakes
On Thursday, February 20, 2025 Elon Musk tweeted that X ’Community Notes” are “increasingly being gamed by governments and legacy media.” But back in January, Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta is dropping fact-checking in favor of community notes: “We’ve seen this approach work on X.” So does it stop disinformation or not? And is it…