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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By Matheus V. X. Ferreira, Danny Yuxing Huang, Tithi Chattopadhyay, Nick Feamster, and S. Matthew Weinberg Recent years have seen a proliferation of “smart-home” or IoT devices, many of which…
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Is This An Ad? Help Us Identify Misleading Content On YouTube
by Michael Swart, Arunesh Mathur, and Marshini Chetty Ever watched a video on YouTube and wondered if the YouTuber was paid for endorsing a product? You are not alone. In…
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Conference on Social Protection by Artificial Intelligence: Decoding Human Rights in a Digital Age
Christiaan van Veen[1] and Ben Zevenbergen [2] Governments around the world are increasingly using Artificial Intelligence and other digital technologies to streamline and transform their social protection and welfare systems.…
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How to do a Risk-Limiting Audit
In the U.S. we use voting machines to count the votes. Most of the time they’re very accurate indeed, but they can make big mistakes if there’s a bug in…
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Choosing Between Content Moderation Interventions
How can we design remedies for content “violations” online? Speaking today at CITP is Eric Goldman (@ericgoldman), a professor of law and co-director of the High Tech Law Institute, at…
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ImageCast Evolution voting machine: Mitigations, misleadings, and misunderstandings
Two months ago I wrote that the New York State Board of Elections was going to request a reexamination of the Dominion ImageCast Evolution voting machine, in light of a…
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OpenPrecincts: Can Citizen Science Improve Gerrymandering Reform?
How the American public understand gerrymandering and collect data that could lead to fairer, more representative voting districts across the US? Speaking today at CITP are Ben Williams and Hannah…
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BMDs are not meaningfully auditable
The 2019 article described here was later revised and published in a peer-reviewed journal as, Ballot-Marking Devices Cannot Assure the Will of the Voters, by Andrew W. Appel, Richard A.…
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CITP’s OpenWPM privacy measurement tool moves to Mozilla
As part of my PhD at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), I led the development of OpenWPM, a tool for web privacy measurement, with the help of many…
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The Trust Architecture of Blockchain: Kevin Werbach at CITP
Rather than removing the need for trust, blockchain offers a new architecture of trust, according to Kevin Werbach, today’s speaker at CITP.