Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
The Experts Corner
Ep 7: USC election security podcast
Marie Harf / USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative / Aug. 1, 2021
Election Cybersecurity
GOP-led Colorado county board rejects appointment of new official to supervise elections
Paul P. Murphy & Fredreka Schouten / CNN / Aug. 18, 2021
FBI joins criminal probe in Colorado voting equipment breach
Patty Nieberg / The Associated Press / Aug. 18, 2021
Arizona county seeks reimbursement for new voting machines
Jonathan J. Cooper / The Associated Press / Aug. 18, 2021
MI House approves voting machine bills
Rick Pluta / WKAR Public Media / Aug. 17, 2021
House OKs bills seeking to shore up access to electronic voter info
Beth LeBlanc / The Detroit News / Aug. 17, 2021
Cybersecurity / Technology
Census Bureau missed opportunities to avert 2020 cyberattack — report
John Hewitt Jones / FedScoop / Aug. 18, 2021
T-Mobile says hack exposed personal data of 40 million people
Isabella Grullón Paz / The New York Times / Aug. 18, 2021
BlackBerry resisted announcing major flaw in software powering cars, hospital equipment
Betsy Woodruff Swan & Eric Geller / POLITICO / Aug. 17, 2021
Are Apple’s tools against child abuse bad for your privacy?
Jack Nicas / The New York Times / Aug. 18, 2021
Facebook launches VR remote work app, calling it a step to the ‘metaverse’
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters / Aug. 19, 2021
How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence
Garance Burke et al. / The Associated Press / Aug. 19, 2021
Yik Yak, the anonymous app that tested free speech, is back
Jonathan Franklin / NPR / Aug. 17, 2021
‘Massive wake-up call’: Crypto faces growing legal crackdown
Kellie Mejdrich / POLITICO / Aug. 17, 2021
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Beijing took stake and board seat in key ByteDance domestic entity this year
Yingzhi Yang and Brenda Goh / Reuters / Aug. 17, 2021
China state firms invest in TikTok sibling, Weibo chat app
Tali Arbel & Zen Soo / The Associated Press / Aug. 18, 2021
China steps up tech scrutiny with rules over unfair competition, critical data
Josh Horwitz / Reuters / Aug. 17, 2021
China rebukes 43 apps including Tencent’s WeChat for breaking data transfer rules
Josh Horwitz et al. / Reuters / Aug. 17, 2021
Disinformation / Misinformation
Death threats and conspiracy theories: why 2020 won’t end for election officials
Miles Parks / NPR / Aug. 17, 2021
Only Facebook knows the extent of its misinformation problem. And it’s not sharing, even with the White House
Elizabeth Dworkin et al. / The Washington Post / Aug. 19, 2021
Oversight Board upholds Facebook decision to keep post calling lockdowns ineffective
Margaret Harding McGill / Axios / Aug. 19, 2021
Facebook removes dozens of vaccine misinformation ‘superspreaders’
Eva Mathews / Reuters / Aug. 18, 2021
Twitter will let users report misinformation for first time
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg / Aug. 17, 2021
Policy groups ask Apple to drop plans to inspect iMessages, scan for abuse images
Joseph Menn / Reuters / Aug. 19, 2021
FBI assisting in investigation of QAnon-Colorado video
Joseph Choi / The Hill / Aug. 17, 2021
Facebook stands by its ban on Taliban
Ivana Saric / Axios / Aug. 18, 2021
YouTube says it does not allow Taliban-affiliated accounts
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters / Aug. 17, 2021
Today’s Taliban uses sophisticated social media practices that rarely violate the rules
Craig Timberg and Cristiano Lima / The Washington Post / Aug. 18, 2021
Russia calls independent election watchdog a ‘foreign agent’
Daria Litvinova / The Associated Press / Aug. 18, 2021
Russia fines Google again for failing to remove banned content
Alexander Marrow et al. / Reuters / Aug. 19, 2021
Cuba tightens internet controls in the wake of historic protests
Jim Wyss / Bloomberg / Aug. 17, 2021
Nigeria expects to lift Twitter ban by end of year, minister says
Karin Strohecker and Libby George / Reuters / Aug. 19, 2021
Elections During and After the Pandemic
Lawsuit challenges California recall process ahead of September election
Max Greenwood / The Hill / Aug. 17, 2021
Republican flips Connecticut state Senate seat
Reid Wilson / The Hill / Aug. 18, 2021
A fix for Atlanta’s voting problems
The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 18, 2021
Georgia board to tap election review panel for Fulton County
Kate Brumback / The Associated Press / Aug. 17, 2021
Potential G.O.P. takeover of Atlanta-area election board inches forward
Nick Corasaniti / The New York Times / Aug. 18, 2021
New voting bill would reinstate federal review of changes to Georgia election laws
Tia Mitchell / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / Aug. 17, 2021
Arizona’s new early voting restrictions hit with lawsuit
John Kruzel / The Hill / Aug. 17, 2021
Texas election bill raises concerns about possible power struggles between partisan poll watchers and election workers
Rob Avila / Texas Standard / Aug. 17, 2021
EXPLAINER: Texas Democrats and threat of arrest over holdout
Paul J. Weber & Acacia Coronado / The Associated Press / Aug. 19, 2021
The Cybersecurity 202: Election officials are pushing back against partisan audits launched by Trump allies
Joseph Marks / The Washington Post / Aug. 18, 2021
Election officials call for audit guidelines after Trump-fueled surge
Zach Montellaro / POLITICO / Aug. 17, 2021
‘Center of the maelstrom’: Election officials grapple with 2020’s long shadow
Zach Montellaro / POLITICO / Aug. 18, 2021
House Republicans propose voter photo ID law, ending most absentee voting, and more
Jake Zuckerman / Ohio Capital Journal / Aug. 18, 2021
House revises voting rights bill to boost Justice Department powers to challenge states
Michael Macagnone / Roll Call / Aug. 17, 2021