Better if I had a copy of my
ballot. What happens if I say my votes were recorded incorrectly? I
have no proof.
Microsoft
offers free system to let voters ensure their votes are counted
Details: The voter auditing system, called
ElectionGuard, was developed with the security firm Galois, and uses
what's known as homomorphic encryption to protect voter information
while allowing voters to check it.
- Homomorphic encryption allows computers to process information without ever decrypting it, meaning that a ballot would stay private even from the computers used to collect it.
- "The voter gets a tracker that they will be able to enter later to see that their vote was correctly recorded and counted," said Burt.
- And the system as a whole would allow third parties to tally votes on their own, ensuring there wasn't a miscalculation.
Would they believe I don’t own a smartphone?
Whoa.
Sophia Harris reports:
As more people travel with smartphones loaded with personal data, concern is mounting over Canadian border officers’ powers to search those phones — without a warrant.
“The policy’s outrageous,” said Toronto business lawyer, Nick Wright. “I think that it’s a breach of our constitutional rights.”
His thoughts follow a personal experience. After landing at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on April 10, he said the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) flagged him for an additional inspection — for no stated reason.
Read
more on CBC,
especially if you are planning to travel to or through Canada,
because it seems that the government CAN get away with doing to you
what they did to Nick Wright.
Would the ethical bit also apply to the Facebooks
of the world? “With great data gathering comes great
responsibility?”
In the six
months since Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by a Saudi “Rapid
Intervention Group” in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul,
press reports have described a variety of information swept up by
U.S. intelligence that foretold or foreshadowed the heinous crime.
The reporting has cast a rare light not only on our spy agencies’
activities and capabilities, but also on the complicated moral
dilemmas that accompany mass surveillance. And it has intensified
questions over
whether the intelligence agencies that gathered this information
carried out a legally required duty to warn the journalist that his
life was in danger.
How much is
too much? Will the pendulum swing back?
Europe
Is Reining In Tech Giants. But Some Say It’s Going Too Far.
In
Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated
an expanded antiterrorism law. The Twitter accounts of German
citizens were blocked because of rules enacted last year that
prohibit hate speech. And a Dutch court determined Google must
remove search results about a doctor punished for poor performance,
in compliance with a privacy law.
Heralded
as the world’s toughest watchdog
of Silicon Valley technology
giants, Europe has clamped down on violent content, hate speech and
misinformation online through a thicket of new laws and regulations
over the past five years. Now there are questions about whether the
region is going too far, with the rules leading to accusations of
censorship and potentially providing cover to some governments to
stifle dissent.
My students will become more literate? Or more
liberal? Bias in your word processor?
Word’s
new AI editor will improve your writing
If
you write in Microsoft
Word Online,
you’ll soon have an AI-powered editor at your side. As the company
announced today, Word will soon get a new feature called “Ideas”
that will offer writers all kinds of help with their documents.
If
writing is a struggle for you, the most important feature of Ideas is
surely its ability to help you write more concise and readable text.
You can think of this as a
grammar checker on steroids,
as it goes beyond fixing obvious mistakes and focuses on making your
writing better. It uses machine learning, for example, to suggest a
rewrite when you mangled a complex phrase. Ideas will also help
you write more inclusive
texts.
Is
this an anti-GDPR? Expect arguments that all jurisdictions should be
global?
New
Rules On E-Evidence Could Streamline Criminal Investigations in the
EU
Center
for Data Innovation
– “Law enforcement authorities have a problem: Evidence from
crimes is often digital, such as emails or documents in the cloud,
but investigators cannot easily access data stored in another
country. While this issue is global, it is particularly acute within
the EU. According
to the European Commission,
nearly two-thirds of crimes involving e-evidence held in another
member state cannot be properly investigated because of lengthy
delays by which time the evidence may be destroyed. To address this
problem, the European Union should adopt new
rules to
streamline the process for obtaining and preserving e-evidence within
its territory. While the European Commission has made an initial
proposal on
reforming the rules for e-evidence, the proposal has largely missed
the mark by making the process more cumbersome for companies and
shifting the burden of vetting requests to the private sector. In
addition, the proposed rules threaten high fines—up
to 2 percent of their global turnover —for
compliance violations, which will make companies focus more on
avoiding penalties rather than working cooperatively with
investigators.
My students
predicted this a couple of years ago. Self-driving, on demand
vehicles have no human to notice problems.
Tesla vehicles can now diagnose themselves with
repair and maintenance issues and they can even automatically
pre-order parts for repairs.
Perspective.
Infographic:
US Adults Who Do Not Use The Internet In 2019
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