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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FLASH: 4:47 a.m. EDT August 28 — Indian e-voting researcher Hari Prasad was released on bail an hour ago, after seven days in police custody. Magistrate D. H. Sharma reportedly…
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Update: Indian E-Voting Researcher Remains in Police Custody
Update: 8/28 Indian E-Voting Researcher Freed After Seven Days in Police Custody In case you’re just tuning in, e-voting researcher Hari Prasad, with whom I coauthored a paper exposing serious flaws…
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It’s Time for India to Face its E-Voting Problem
The unjustified arrest of Indian e-voting researcher Hari Prasad, while an ordeal for Prasad and his family, and an embarrassment to the Indian authorities, has at least helped to focus…
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Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source
Updates:8/28Alex Halderman: Indian E-Voting Researcher Freed After Seven Days in Police Custody 8/26Alex Halderman: Indian E-Voting Researcher Remains in Police Custody 8/24Ed Felten: It’s Time for India to Face its…
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The Future of DRE Voting Machines
Last week at the EVT/WOTE workshop, Ari Feldman and I unveiled a new research project that we feel represents the future of DRE voting machines. DRE (direct-recording electronic) voting machines…
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Assessing PACER's Access Barriers
The U.S. Courts recently conducted a year-long assessment of their Electronic Public Access program which included a survey of PACER users. While the results of the assessment haven’t been formally…
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Do Not Track: Not as Simple as it Sounds
Over the past few weeks, regulators have rekindled their interest in an online Do Not Track proposal in hopes of better protecting consumer privacy. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz told a…
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New Search and Browsing Interface for the RECAP Archive
We have written in the past about RECAP, our project to help make federal court documents more easily accessible. We continue to upgrade the system, and we are eager for…
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A Major Internet Milestone: DNSSEC and SSL
On July 15th, a small but significant internet event occurred. On that day, years of planning culminated in the deployment of a cryptographic signature on the root DNS zone. To…
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My Work at CITP This Year: Judicial Policy, Public Access, and The Electronic Court
Hi. My name is Ron Hedges. I am a Visiting Research Collaborator with the CITP for 2010-11. Let me tell you a little about myself. I am a graduate of…