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How misinformation spreads on Twitter (Brookings Institution)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 07/06/2020 - 15:43Preemption: A balanced national approach to protecting all Americans’ privacy (Brookings Institution)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 06/29/2020 - 10:59How to combat online voter suppresion
With five months to go until a presidential election that promises to be a major test of American democratic institutions, American laws are in desperate need of update to address digital forms of voter suppression and how political debate and campaigning has moved online. Several ideas for rules that government could enact to provide the necessary transparency to help ensure that voter suppression does not run unchecked online include:
Nicol Turner Lee named as new director of the Brookings Center for Technology Innovation (Brookings Institution)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 06/25/2020 - 10:50Could President Trump claim a national security threat to shut down the internet?
“I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about,” President Donald Trump said in a 2020 Oval Office exchange. One of those powers is his authority to shut down radio, television, both wireless and wired phone networks, and the internet. It is not a big step from using the power of the government to threaten free expression to actually doing something to curtail that expression. All it takes is a unilateral “proclamation by the President” of the existence of a “national emergency.”
Analysis: Why creating an internet “fairness doctrine” would backfire (Brookings Institution)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 06/24/2020 - 12:45Congressional modernization jump-started by COVID-19 (Brookings Institution)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 14:28How COVID-19 is shaping European tech regulation (Brookings Institution)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 14:02The dangers of tech-driven solutions to COVID-19
Contact tracing done wrong threatens privacy and invites mission creep into adjacent fields, including policing. Government actors might (and do) distort and corrupt public-health messaging to serve their own interests. Automated policing and content control raise the prospect of a slide into authoritarianism. But most critics have focused narrowly on classic privacy concerns about data leakage and mission creep—especially the risk of improper government access to and use of sensitive data.