Online voter registration comes to California
http://j.mp/nvLPQg (Capital Alert) http://j.mp/rsf0cS (Text of Legislation) "Senate Bill 397, by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, allows to (sic) state to begin registering voters online ahead of the completion of a new statewide voter registration database." [signed into law by Gov. Brown] - - - The ramifications of this are not entirely clear, since it allows the "tapping" of an existing signature based on information that is not widely protected in the first place (DL#, last 4 digits of SSN, DOB). --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
