CITP Blog is hosted by Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Here you’ll find comment and analysis from the digital frontier, written by the Center’s faculty, students, and friends.
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In an interview today with CNet, Michael Shamos talks about paper trails. Shamos is a professor at CMU who has served as a voting system analyst for the Pennsylvania Secretary…
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How can we require ID for voters?
Recently, HR 5036 was shot down in Congress. That bill was to provide “emergency” money to help election administrators who wished to replace paperless voting systems with optically scanned paper…
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May 14-15: Future of News workshop
We’re excited to announce a workshop on “The Future of News”, to be held May 14 and 15 in Princeton. It’s sponsored by the Center for InfoTech Policy at Princeton.…
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Online Symposium: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music
Today we’re kicking off an online symposium on voluntary collective licensing of music, over at the Center for InfoTech Policy site. The symposium is motivated by recent movement in the…
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Phorm's Harms Extend Beyond Privacy
Last week, I wrote about the privacy concerns surrounding Phorm, an online advertising company who has teamed up with British ISPs to track user Web behavior from within their networks.…
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NJ Election Discrepancies Worse Than Previously Thought, Contradict Sequoia's Explanation
I wrote previously about discrepancies in the vote totals reported by Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machines in New Jersey’s presidential primary election, and the incomplete explanation offered by Sequoia, the…
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Bad Phorm on Privacy
Phorm, an online advertising company, has recently made deals with several British ISPs to gain unprecedented access to every single Web action taken by their customers. The deals will let…
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Music Industry Under Fire for Exploring EFF Suggestion
Jim Griffin, a music industry consultant who is in the unusual position of being recognized as smart and reasonable by participants across a broad swath of positions in the copyright…
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An Inconvenient Truth About Privacy
One of the lessons we’ve learned from Al Gore is that it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. We all like to tool around in our SUVs,…
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Comcast and BitTorrent: Why You Can't Negotiate with a Protocol
The big tech policy news yesterday was Comcast’s announcement that it will stop impeding BitTorrent traffic, but instead will respond to network congestion by slowing traffic from the highest-volume users,…