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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This post is about a Syllabus of Actions, the result of last fall’s Building the Society We Want workshop, co-hosted by Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy and Center for…
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Barcodes on paper ballots: the good, the bad, and the stealth
Paper ballots should not have barcodes to mark votes; paper ballots should have barcodes to mark ballot styles. Why is that? What’s the difference? And at the end, I describe…
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Five Themes Discussed at Princeton’s Workshop on Decentralized Social Media
On Monday, March 4, 2024, CITP and DeCenter co-hosted a workshop on the topic of decentralized social media. The invite-only workshop brought together a diverse group of leaders and innovators…
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Suggested Principles for State Statutes Regarding Ballot Marking and Vote Tabulation
This letter, signed by more than 20 election cybersecurity experts, was addressed to the Pennsylvania State Senate Committee on Government in response to a request for policy advice, but it…
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Securing the Web PKI
CITP is releasing a report today based on a two day in-person workshop on the security of the Web Public Key Infrastructure (Web PKI) we held last year. The workshop…
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Building the Society We Want: A CITP Conference
Twenty years ago, social media companies started telling us: “Hey, use this free digital mediaproduct!” We individually used it, or didn’t. And then we all used it, because we had…
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Rising Juniors and Seniors – Do you want to make an impact with public interest technology this summer?
Apply here now to be part of the Siegel Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship! Artificial intelligence, privacy and security, social media platforms and the internet are influencing all sectors of…
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CITP is hiring for multiple positions, including professor, fellow and Emerging Scholar. Join us!
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor The School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) and CITP are accepting applications for an assistant, associate or full professor whose work aligns with CITP’s…
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Switzerland’s e-voting system has predictable implementation blunder
Last year, I published a 5-part series about Switzerland’s e-voting system. Like any internet voting system, it has inherent security vulnerabilities: if there are malicious insiders, they can corrupt the…