Re: [liberationtech] E-Voting

[carlo von lynX]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:18:59PM +1300, Eleanor Saitta wrote:
> Yes, there has been research done.  The summary is "if you do this,
> forget about any chance of having a free and fair election, because it's
> hard not to end up accidentally hacking the election, let alone stopping
> anyone who might want to actively hack it".
> 
> There's a decade or so of research on how bad just electronic voting is,
> and another decade of research on how bad mobile phone security is.  The
> combination is geometrically worse.

Full ack. It is already a bad idea to elect people instead of making
choices on issues, it is a lot worse if you expect technology to
maintain secrecy.

But if you are interested in having people debate and decide over
issues rather than people, and they understand this can only work
in full transparency, then you can look into LiquidFeedback and
suitable apps to go with it. You should not go for anything less
since direct democracy has shown time and time again that it is
a platform for demagoguery. Liquid democracy combined with proper
methods and a legal structure can bring out the collective
intelligence of the participants instead, empowering them to take
fact-based and properly reasoned policy decisions. The technology
is like the use of paper in a virtual parliament of the people. 
Any participant should have the ability to confirm the accuracy of
the procedures, something the software does not perfectly provide,
but that is just work to be done.


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Re: [liberationtech] E-Voting

[Eleanor Saitta]

On 2016.11.15 02.57, Zacharia Gichiriri wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Are there any countries that have implemented a form of mobile voting?
> Is there any research on the potential, challenges and applicability of
> mobile voting? 
> Considering the explosive growth of mobile phones across Africa, would
> the use of mobile phones for elections (citizens voting through mobile
> phones) improve election outcomes and transparency? 

Yes, there has been research done.  The summary is "if you do this,
forget about any chance of having a free and fair election, because it's
hard not to end up accidentally hacking the election, let alone stopping
anyone who might want to actively hack it".

There's a decade or so of research on how bad just electronic voting is,
and another decade of research on how bad mobile phone security is.  The
combination is geometrically worse.

Paper is good.  People watching other people use paper has a pretty well
understood set of failure models.  The problems of electoral integrity
and transparency are social and political ones, not technical ones, and
if you add more technology without solving the social and political
issues, all you're going to do is make a much more convenient crisis.

E.

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[liberationtech] Fwd: PoPETs 2017 issue 3 call for papers

[Moritz Bartl]

 Forwarded Message 

[Apologies to those who receive multiple copies of this CFP]

CALL FOR PAPERS - PoPeTs 2017, Issue 3 / PETS 2017

The deadline for PoPETs 2017, Issue 3 is two weeks away: December
1, 2016. PoPETs/PETS now has 4 deadlines a year; submit whenever you
feel ready!

Read the CFP below for more details on our hybrid journal/symposium
model, which includes the option to resubmit with major revisions to a
subsequent deadline. See the web site for full information, including
submission guidelines.

Papers must be submitted via the submission server for Issue 3
at: https://submit.petsymposium.org/2017.3/

We look forward to your submissions!

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Call for Papers
===
17th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2017) Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA July 2017 General information: https://petsymposium.org/
Submission server: https://submit.petsymposium.org/2017.3/


The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings
together privacy experts from around the world to present and discuss
recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy
technologies. The 17th PETS event will be organised by the University of
Minnesota and held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, July 18 – 21, 2017.

Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process and accepted papers are
published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
(PoPETs). Submitted papers should present novel practical and/or
theoretical research into the design, analysis, experimentation, or
fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies. While PETS/PoPETs has
traditionally been home to research on anonymity systems and
privacy-oriented cryptography, we strongly encourage submissions on a
number of both well-established and emerging privacy-related topics, for
which examples are provided below.

PoPETs, a scholarly, open access journal for timely research papers on
privacy, has been established as a way to improve reviewing and
publication quality while retaining the highly successful PETS community
event. PoPETs is published by De Gruyter Open, the world's second
largest publisher of open access academic content, and part of the De
Gruyter group, which has over 260 years of publishing history. PoPETs
does not have article processing charges (APCs) or article submission
charges.

Authors can submit papers to PoPETs four times a year, every three
months on a predictable schedule. Authors are notified of the decisions
about two months after submission. In addition to ‘accept’ and
‘reject’ decisions, papers may receive ‘major revision’
decisions, in which case authors are invited to revise and resubmit
their article to one of the following two submission deadlines. We
endeavor to assign the same reviewers to revised versions. Papers
accepted for publication within or before the February deadline round
will be presented at that year's symposium. Note that accepted papers
must be presented at PETS.

PoPETs also solicits submissions for Systematization of Knowledge (SoK)
papers. These are papers that critically review, evaluate, and
contextualize work in areas for which a body of prior literature exists,
and whose contribution lies in systematizing the existing knowledge in
that area. To be suitable for publication, SoK articles must provide an
added value beyond a literature review, such as novel insights,
identification of research gaps, or challenges to commonly held
assumptions. SoK papers will follow the same review process as other
submissions, and will be published in PoPETs and presented at the PETS
2017 event.

Submit papers for PoPETs 2017, Issue 3 at
https://submit.petsymposium.org/2017.3/. Please see the submission
guidelines below, and view our FAQ for more information about the process.

Important Dates for PETS 2017 Issue 3
==
All deadlines are 23:59:59 American Samoa time (UTC-11)
Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2016 (firm)
Rebuttal period: January 9 -- 11, 2017
Author notification: February 1, 2017
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if
accepted by the shepherd): March 1, 2017

Papers which were submitted to a previous PoPETs deadline and invited to
resubmit after major revisions can submit the revised (full) paper up to
two weeks after the stated deadline. Such papers must however be
registered with an abstract by the usual deadline. All other papers than
these revised resubmissions must be submitted by the stated deadline,
including papers submitted and rejected from a previous issue. Major
revisions must be submitted in one of the two rounds following the
decision; otherwise the paper will be treated as a new submission.

Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:
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Building and deploying privacy-enhancing systems
Crowdsourcing for 

[liberationtech] Fwd: Privacy Camp 2017: Call for submissions

[Moritz Bartl]

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Dear all,

Join us for the 5th annual Privacy Camp (https://privacycamp.eu/)! Held
every January just before the start of the CPDP conference, the camp
brings together civil society, policy-makers and academia to discuss
existing and looming problems for human rights in the digital
environment. As every year, the event is co-organised by EDRi, Privacy
Salon, USL-B and VUB-LSTS.

*When*: 24 January 2017, 9am – 5.30pm
*Where*: Université Saint-Louis, Boulevard du Jardin Botanique 43, 1000
Brussels, Rooms P60 and P61 /(TBC)/

*Participate!*

Who controls (your) data, who controls the machines? These questions are
at the very center of the debates surrounding the pending adoption of
important EU-wide legislation, such as the review of the ePrivacy
Directive, the smart borders package, the draft Regulation on dual-use
goods and the latest filtering proposals in the draft copyright Directive.

We invite you to propose a panel for one of these two tracks:

*Track 01 controlling data*
Topics: #metadata #onlinetracking #export #surveillance #accountability
#UploadFilters

*Track 02 controlling machines*
Topics: #IoT #InternetOfThings #algorithms #wearables #sharingeconomy #AI

Some things to keep in mind when submitting your proposal:

  * indicate a clear objective for your session: what would be a good
outcome for you?
  * indicate other speakers that could participate in your panel (and
invite them)
  * make it as participative as possible, think about how to include the
audience as much as possible
  * send us a max 500 word description of your session

How to submit:
1. Send your proposal to Imge: imge.ozcan (at) vub.ac.be
 *before 23 November 2016*.
2. After the deadline, we will review your submission and let you know
by 6 December 2016.
3. The draft programme is scheduled to be announced in the first week of
January 2017.

Please note that it is possible that we suggest to merge proposals if
they are very similar.

Best,
Imge

Imge Ozcan
Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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