I thought this had all be straightened out when they hung that Chad
guy… Apparently we don’t need the Russians to screw up an
election.
Something
Looks Weird In Broward County. Here’s What We Know About A Possible
Florida Recount.
The Florida U.S. Senate race is still too
close to call. According to unofficial
results on the Florida Department of State website at 11:45 a.m.
Eastern on Friday, Nov. 9, Republican Gov. Rick Scott led Democratic
Sen. Bill Nelson by 15,046 votes — or 0.18 percentage points.
We’re watching that margin closely because if it stays about that
small, it will trigger a recount.
… The changing margin is due to continued
vote-counting in Broward and Palm Beach counties, two of
Florida’s largest and more Democratic-leaning counties.
… Unusually, the votes tabulated in Broward
County so far exhibit a high
rate of something called “undervoting,”
or not voting in all the races on the ballot. Countywide, 26,060
fewer votes were cast in the U.S. Senate race than in the governor
race. Put another way, turnout in the Senate race was 3.7 percent
lower than in the gubernatorial race.
Broward County’s undervote rate is way
out of line with every other county in Florida, which exhibited, at
most, a 0.8-percent difference
… Generally, the higher the elected office,
the less likely voters are to skip it on their ballots. Something
sure does seem off in Broward County; we just don’t know what yet.
True, but depressing.
Why Social
Media’s Misinformation Problem Will Never Be Fixed
Slate – Facebook
and others have gotten more serious about hoaxes, hate speech,
propaganda, and foreign election interference. Here’s how it
helped in the midterms—and why they aren’t going away.
“At first grimace, the role of social media in
the 2018 U.S. midterm elections looked a lot like the role it played
in the 2016, when the hijacking of tech platforms by foreign agents
and domestic opportunists became one of the major subplots of Donald
Trump’s victory and sparked a series of high-profile congressional
inquiries. Despite all of the backlash, all the scrutiny, all the
promises made by the likes of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to do better, the boogeymen that reared their
head then are still snarling today. That’s dispiriting, because
the tech companies had two years to prepare, and untold resources at
their disposal. Facebook even had a well-staffed election “war
room” tasked with finding and addressing the very kinds of hoaxes
that continued to crop up throughout the election cycle. If they
haven’t fixed things by now, well: When will they? The answer is
probably “never.”…”
(Related)
Hard
Questions: What Are We Doing to Stay Ahead of Terrorists?
Online terrorist propaganda is a fairly new
phenomenon; terrorism itself is not. In the real world, terrorist
groups have proven highly resilient to counterterrorism efforts, so
it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the same dynamic is true on
social platforms like Facebook. The more we do to detect and remove
terrorist content, the more shrewd these groups become.
… our overall enforcement effort was
significantly better in Q2 2018 than it was previously, even though
our median time to take action was 14 hours. By Q3 2018, the
median time on platform decreased to less than two minutes,
illustrating that the new detection systems had matured.
Something to look forward to.
Be still, my heart.
Ross Todd reports:
Mark your calendars, cyber-enthusiasts.
The federal judge overseeing a half dozen class action lawsuits targeting Facebook Inc. with claims related to a data breach affecting 50 million users has asked the lawyers in the case to give him a tutorial on data breaches, the dark web and all things cyber-related.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California, who makes a regular habit of asking lawyers in highly technical cases to help him get up to speed on the underlying technology, has asked for a tutorial in the Facebook cases in his San Francisco courtroom on Jan. 9 of next year. Alsup is giving each side one hour to present information on “the subject of data privacy and the technology used to both protect and attack it.”
Read more on
Law.com (free registration required)
Something I’ll have to read slowly.
Forget Black Friday! We’ve got a new article by
Ryan Calo to read and ponder. Having just skimmed the abstract, I
see a terms/concepts that I am not familiar with, so much to learn
here…..
Abstract
American Legal Realism numbers among the most important theoretical contributions of legal academia to date. Given the movement’s influence, as well as the common centrality of certain key figures, it is surprising that privacy scholarship in the United States has paid next to no attention to the movement. This inattention is unfortunate for several reasons, including that privacy law furnishes rich examples of the indeterminacy thesis—a key concept of American Legal Realism—and because the interdisciplinary efforts of privacy scholars to explore extra-legal influences on privacy law arguably further the plot of legal realism itself. The application of social science to privacy has, if anything, deepened its indeterminacy.
Citation and Access to Full Article (Free):
Calo, Ryan, Privacy Law’s Indeterminacy (November 8, 2018). 20
Theoretical Inquiries L. XX (2019). Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=
Perspective. Agrees with a study from last month
that said people were basing decisions on where to work on the
commute time.
Has the
love affair with driving gotten stuck in traffic?
Washington
Post: “America’s love affair with the automobile and those
dreams of roaring off on open highways are on the wane as the nation
grapples with too much stop-and-go traffic and too many hours spent
behind the steering wheel. Those findings are contained in a report
to be released Thursday by Arity, a technology research spinoff
created two years ago by Allstate Corporation, parent company of
Allstate Insurance. Arity underscored the growing disillusionment by
using an illustration: Americans, on average, spend more time in
their cars — mostly driving to and from work — than they receive
in vacation time. Arity researchers said most people average 321
hours in the car each year and get 120 hours of vacation…”
None of these make me want to buy a Smartphone.
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