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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The Supreme Administrative Court of Finland has ruled that three municipal elections, the first in Finland to use electronic voting, must be redone because of voting machine problems. (English summary;…
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Consolidation in E-Voting Market: ES&S Buys Premier
Yesterday Diebold sold its e-voting division, known as Premier Election Systems, to ES&S, one of Premier’s competitors. The price was low: about $5 million. ES&S is reportedly the largest e-voting…
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Finding and Fixing Errors in Google's Book Catalog
There was a fascinating exchange about errors in Google’s book catalog over at the Language Log recently. We rarely see such an open and constructive discussion of errors in large…
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When spammers try to go legitimate
I hate to sound like a broken record, complaining about professional mail distribution / spam-houses that are entirely unwilling to require their customers to follow a strict opt-in discipline. But…
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Subpoenas and Search Warrants as Security Threats
When I teach computer security, one of the first lessons is on the need to have a clear threat model, that is, a clearly defined statement of which harms you…
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Steve Schultze to Join CITP as Associate Director
I’m thrilled to announce that Steve Schultze will be joining the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton, as our new Associate Director, starting September 15. We know Steve well,…
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The Trouble with PACER Fees
One sentiment I’ve seen in a number of people express about our release of RECAP is illustrated by this comment here at Freedom to Tinker: Technically impressive, but also shortsighted.…
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Introducing RECAP: Turning PACER Around
With today’s technologies, government transparency means much more than the chance to read one document at a time. Citizens today expect to be able to download comprehensive government datasets that…
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Anonymization FAIL! Privacy Law FAIL!
I have uploaded my latest draft article entitled, Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization to SSRN (look carefully for the download button, just above the…
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Open Government Data: Starting to Judge the Results
Like many others who read this blog, I’ve spent some time over the last year trying to get more civic data online. I’ve argued that government’s failure to put machine-readable…