Slashdot Items Tagged "election"

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Friday February 16, 2024 @02:12PM Microsoft, Google, Meta, X and Others Pledge To Prevent AI Election Interference
Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:40PM Pakistan Cuts Off Phone and Internet Services On Election Day
Tuesday January 02, 2024 @07:47PM 'A Global Watermarking Standard Could Help Safeguard Elections In the ChatGPT Era'
Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:26PM Why Switzerland's E-Voting System Is a Bad Idea
Monday October 16, 2023 @07:54PM Argentina's Presidential Front Runner Vows To Slash Science Funding
Monday October 02, 2023 @05:54PM SBF Considered Paying Trump $5 Billion Not To Run For President
Monday August 28, 2023 @05:03PM Foxconn Founder Terry Gou Announces Run For Taiwan Presidency, Pledging To Fix China Ties
Monday August 28, 2023 @04:45PM Disney VFX Workers File For Union Election
Friday June 02, 2023 @04:34PM YouTube Will Stop Removing False Presidential Election Fraud Claims
Friday January 06, 2023 @08:04AM Election Campaign Company In Jaipur
Tuesday December 14, 2021 @06:10PM USPS Built and Secretly Tested a Blockchain-Based Mobile Voting System Before 2020
Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:26PM Facebook Said To Consider Forming An Election Commission
Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:51PM Microsoft Teams Up With Voting Machine Maker To Let Voters Track Ballots
Thursday February 04, 2021 @05:44PM Voting Technology Company Files $2.7 Billion Lawsuit Against Fox News and Others
Monday January 11, 2021 @09:58PM Facebook Says It's Banning the Phrase 'Stop the Steal'
Friday December 11, 2020 @06:29PM Key People Are Leaving Facebook and Torching the Company In Departure Notes
Friday November 13, 2020 @08:40PM Election Was Most Secure In American History, US Officials Say
Thursday November 12, 2020 @06:03PM Facebook Extends Political Ad Ban In US For At Least a Month
Friday November 06, 2020 @06:21PM Facebook Can't Seem To Do Anything About 'Stop the Steal' Groups
Thursday November 05, 2020 @12:16AM Sportsbet Says It Will Pay Out Early On Biden As US President
Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:25PM Election Hoax Spreading Through Text Messages In Michigan
Friday October 30, 2020 @05:15PM Russian Hackers Targeted California, Indiana Democratic Parties In Repeat of 2016 Attacks
Friday September 25, 2020 @05:51PM Facebook's Oversight Board Won't Launch In Time To Oversee the Election
Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:07PM Facebook Will Pay Users To Log Off Before 2020 Election
Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:14PM The FBI Botches Its DNC Hack Warning In 2016 -- But Says It Won't Next Time
Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:18PM Microsoft Releases Deepfake Detection Tool Ahead of Election
Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:34PM Klobuchar, Microsoft's Smith Warn of Election Interference
Monday August 17, 2020 @04:49PM Safest Voting Method Is Using Paper, Leading Cyber Expert Says
Monday August 10, 2020 @08:18PM Belarus Has Shut Down the Internet Amid a Controversial Election
Monday July 27, 2020 @06:50PM Election Officials Are Vulnerable To Exim Security Vulnerability, Report Shows
Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:07AM Apple To Give Employees Paid Time Off To Vote In US Election
Friday July 10, 2020 @04:45PM Facebook Considers Political-Ad Blackout Ahead of US Election
Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:07PM Some States Have Embraced Online Voting. It's a Huge Risk.
Thursday June 04, 2020 @04:44PM Facebook To Block Ads From State-Controlled Media Entities In the US
Friday May 29, 2020 @09:10PM DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State
Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:16PM Proposed Bill Would Ban Microtargeting of Political Advertisements
Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:55PM Why a Voting App Won't Solve Our Problems This November
Friday March 13, 2020 @03:28PM Russian Election Meddling is Back -- via Ghana and Nigeria -- And in Your Feeds
Friday February 28, 2020 @06:16PM Google's Black Box Algorithm Controls Which Political Emails Land in Your Main Inbox
Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:43PM This Could Be Microsoft's Most Important Product in 2020. If it Works
Friday February 14, 2020 @12:30AM Nevada Democrats To Use iPads Loaded With Google Forms To Track Caucus
Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:36PM The Iowa Caucuses App Could Have Been Hacked
Monday February 03, 2020 @06:57PM West Virginia Poised To Allow Smartphone Voting For Disabled Voters
Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:51PM Seattle-Area Voters To Vote By Smartphone In 1st For US Elections
Thursday December 05, 2019 @06:35PM Most of the Largest US Voting Districts Are Vulnerable To Email Spoofing
Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:43PM Google Halts Political Ads In Singapore As Election Looms
Friday September 27, 2019 @08:49PM Researchers Easily Breached Voting Machines For the 2020 Election
Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:58PM Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked a Month Before Election
Thursday August 08, 2019 @05:09PM Critical US Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online
Thursday July 25, 2019 @06:53PM Russian Hack of Elections System Was Far-Reaching, Senate Intel Committee Report Finds
Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:53PM Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Sues Google For $50 Million Over Suspension of Ad Account
Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:14PM Facebook Shuts Down An Israeli Firm's Effort To Influence Politics In West Africa
Friday April 19, 2019 @04:53PM West Virginia Will Allow 'Blockchain Voting' In the 2020 Election
Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:31PM Senators Demand To Know Why Election Vendors Still Sell Voting Machines With 'Known Vulnerabilities'
Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:54PM US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling
Monday December 17, 2018 @07:02PM Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016
Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:33PM Blockchain-Based Elections Would Be a Disaster For Democracy
Tuesday November 06, 2018 @01:20PM Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know
Monday November 05, 2018 @10:33PM Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials To Use Weak Passwords
Sunday November 04, 2018 @02:37AM File-Sharing Software On State Election Servers Could Expose Them To Intruders
Friday October 19, 2018 @02:47PM Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections
Monday October 15, 2018 @04:48PM Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections
Friday October 12, 2018 @07:52AM To Deter Foreign Hackers, Some States May Also Be Deterring Voters
Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:52PM Voting Machine Used in Half of US Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds
Thursday September 20, 2018 @08:35PM Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interference
Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:04PM Facebook Will Start Fact-Checking Pictures, Videos
Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:59PM Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory
Tuesday September 11, 2018 @05:10PM Trump To Target Foreign Meddling In US Elections With Sanctions Order
Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:37PM Blockchains Are Not Safe For Voting, Concludes NAP Report
Friday August 24, 2018 @11:37PM No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election
Thursday August 23, 2018 @05:47PM Millions of Texas Voter Records Exposed Online
Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:23PM LA County Gets State Approval of New Vote-Counting System Using Open-Source Software
Monday August 13, 2018 @01:02AM 11-Year-Old Changes Election Results On Florida's Website: Defcon 2018
Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:02PM West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections
Thursday July 19, 2018 @02:48PM Microsoft Reveals First Known Midterm Campaign Hacking Attempts
Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:22PM Electronic Voting To Enter Australian House of Representatives
Friday May 11, 2018 @10:12PM Russian Fake News Ecosystem Targets Syrian Human Rights Workers
Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:13PM Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID
Friday May 04, 2018 @12:36PM Cyberattack Crashes Tennessee County's Website on Election Night
Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:36PM Twitter Says It Will Comply With Honest Ads Act To Combat Russia Social Media Meddling
Friday April 06, 2018 @04:25PM Facebook Demands ID Verifications For Big Pages, 'Issue' Ad Buyers
Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:59PM Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos
Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:39PM Tumblr Takes Down 84 Russia-Linked Accounts
Monday March 19, 2018 @05:35PM Sierra Leone Government Denies the Role of Blockchain In Its Recent Election
Friday March 16, 2018 @11:06PM Facebook Suspends Donald Trump's Data Operations Team For Misusing People's Personal Information
Friday March 16, 2018 @02:20PM Sierra Leone Records World's First Blockchain-Powered Election
Friday March 09, 2018 @08:04PM Reddit Admits Russian Trolls Got Into Website During 2016 Election
Friday February 16, 2018 @08:38PM NBC Publishes 200,000 Tweets Tied To Russian Trolls
Friday February 16, 2018 @02:36PM US Charges Russian Social Media Trolls Over Election Tampering
Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:40PM Facebook Hired a Full-Time Pollster To Monitor Zuckerberg's Approval Ratings
Thursday February 01, 2018 @12:29AM Twitter Notifies 1.4 Million Users of Interaction With Russian Accounts
Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:50AM Twitter Says It Exposed Nearly 700,000 People To Russian Propaganda During Election
Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:41PM Facebook Is a 'Living, Breathing Crime Scene,' Says Former Tech Insider
Friday January 12, 2018 @08:04PM Ask Slashdot: How Would You Use Computers To Make Elections Better?
Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:19PM New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines
Friday December 22, 2017 @05:44PM How To Check If You Interacted With Russian Propaganda On Facebook During the 2016 Election
Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:09PM CIA Captured Putin's 'Specific Instructions' To Hack the 2016 Election, Says Report
Friday November 24, 2017 @09:25PM Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips
Wednesday November 22, 2017 @04:04PM Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed
Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:49PM Report Claims That 18 Nation's Elections Were Impacted By Social Engineering Last Year
Saturday November 11, 2017 @01:44AM The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Voting With Paper
Wednesday November 08, 2017 @03:05PM Nearly Half of Colorado Counties Have Rejected a Comcast-Backed Law Restricting City-Run Internet
Thursday November 02, 2017 @09:49AM Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election
Monday October 30, 2017 @08:05PM Facebook Says 126 Million Americans May Have Seen Russia-Linked Political Posts
Monday October 30, 2017 @04:10PM Indiana Is Purging Voters Using Software That's 99 Percent Inaccurate, Lawsuit Alleges
Thursday October 26, 2017 @05:14PM US Voting Server At Heart of Russian Hack Probe Mysteriously Wiped
Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:57PM Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election
Monday October 09, 2017 @04:22PM Google Uncovers Russia-Bought Ads On YouTube, Gmail and Other Platforms
Wednesday October 04, 2017 @05:14PM Facebook Fought Rules That Could Have Exposed Fake Russian Ads
Monday September 25, 2017 @07:16PM Russia Reportedly Bought Thousands of Facebook Ads Sought To Stress Racial Divisions
Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:42PM The Fake News Machine: Inside a Town Gearing Up for 2020
Monday September 11, 2017 @06:16PM Virginia Scraps Electronic Voting Machines Hackers Destroyed At DefCon
Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:19PM Facebook Sold Ads To Russian-Linked Accounts During Election
Friday August 18, 2017 @02:30PM Info on 1.8M Chicago Voters Was Publicly Accessible, But Now Removed From Cloud Service
Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:28PM Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report
Friday August 04, 2017 @06:22PM FBI Tracked 'Fake News' Believed To Be From Russia On Election Day
Monday July 10, 2017 @05:46PM Trump Proposes Joint 'Cyber Security Unit' With Russia, Then Quickly Backs Away From It
Thursday July 06, 2017 @11:24AM Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data
Friday June 30, 2017 @06:30AM Despite Hacking Charges, US Tech Industry Fought To Keep Ties To Russia Spy Service
Monday June 19, 2017 @11:20AM 198 Million Americans Hit By 'Largest Ever' Voter Records Leak
Tuesday June 13, 2017 @05:51PM A 12-Month Campaign of Fake News To Influence Elections Costs $400K, Says Report
Tuesday June 13, 2017 @09:29AM Russian Cyber Hacks On US Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known
Friday June 09, 2017 @02:12AM Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament
Monday June 05, 2017 @05:11PM Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:30AM Putin Hints At US Election Meddling By 'Patriotically Minded' Russians
Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:59PM US Prepares Charges To Seek Arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
Friday April 14, 2017 @10:31PM Facebook Targets 30,000 Fake France Accounts Before Election
Monday April 10, 2017 @01:40PM Russian Arrested in Spain 'Over US Election Hacking'
Tuesday March 28, 2017 @04:48PM Hong Kong Government Loses Laptops Containing Personal Data of 3.7 Million Voters
Monday March 27, 2017 @07:00PM Facebook Launches 'Town Hall' For Contacting Government Reps, Adds Local Election Reminders
Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:17PM The Netherlands Opts For Manual Vote-Count Amid Cyberattack Fears
Thursday December 29, 2016 @01:52PM US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update]
Monday December 19, 2016 @07:49PM Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President
Friday December 16, 2016 @04:25PM Election Assistance Commission Hacked Using SQL Injection
Friday December 09, 2016 @01:03PM President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election
Thursday December 08, 2016 @06:46PM US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook
Friday December 02, 2016 @09:21PM Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump
Friday November 25, 2016 @09:24PM Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say
Friday November 25, 2016 @03:03PM Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines
Friday November 25, 2016 @07:56AM IBM To Pay More Than $30 Million in Compensation For Census Fail
Thursday November 24, 2016 @01:08PM Russian Hacker Conspiracy Theory is Weak, But the Case For Paper Ballots is Strong
Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:14AM Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update]
Friday November 18, 2016 @02:16PM President Obama On Fake News Problem: 'We Won't Know What To Fight For'
Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:22PM NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election
Wednesday November 16, 2016 @08:52PM FCC Abides By GOP Request To Stop What It's Doing, Deletes Everything From Meeting Agenda
Wednesday November 16, 2016 @05:42PM Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10
Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:18AM US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations
Monday November 14, 2016 @04:56PM Google Surfaces Fake News About Election Results
Friday November 11, 2016 @06:50PM Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team
Thursday November 10, 2016 @10:57AM Russia Says it Was in Touch With Trump Campaign During Election
Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:15PM Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win
Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:04PM Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook
Wednesday November 09, 2016 @05:14PM Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College?
Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:37AM Automakers, Dependent on Mexico, Face a Rougher Road with Trump
Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:10AM Google Searches For 'President Impeachment', 'Canada Immigration', 'Nuclear Shelter' Skyrocket After Trump's Victory
Wednesday November 09, 2016 @09:23AM Bitcoin Boosted by Safe-Haven Demand After Trump Victory
Wednesday November 09, 2016 @04:16AM Donald Trump Wins US Presidency
Tuesday November 08, 2016 @06:03PM 4chan May Have Brought Down Pro-Clinton Phone Lines Before Election Day
Monday November 07, 2016 @06:18PM Uber, Lyft, Zipcar Offer Free Or Discounted Rides To Polls On Election Day
Monday November 07, 2016 @04:49PM Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close
Sunday November 06, 2016 @05:02PM FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton
Friday November 04, 2016 @06:12PM Why a Theoretical Physicist Wants All State Bills To Be Online Before Final Vote
Friday November 04, 2016 @05:53PM The DNC Has Told FBI It Found Evidence Its Headquarters Was Bugged
Wednesday November 02, 2016 @07:12PM Newly Published WikiLeaks Emails Show Clinton Campaign Communicated With State Department
Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:55PM Trump Organization Owns More Than 3,600 Domain Names, Many of Which Bash Trump
Monday October 31, 2016 @09:09PM Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank
Monday October 31, 2016 @08:03PM Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014
Friday October 28, 2016 @02:29PM FBI Probes Newly Discovered Hillary Clinton Emails and Reopens Investigation
Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:35PM Lawsuit Seeks To Block New York Ban On 'Ballot Selfies'
Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:04AM Latest WikiLeaks Reveal Suggests Facebook Is Too Close For Comfort With Clinton
Friday October 21, 2016 @06:34PM Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech
Friday October 21, 2016 @05:09PM AI Platform Assesses Trump's and Clinton's Emotional Intelligence
Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:11PM How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts
Wednesday October 19, 2016 @07:18PM Hillary Clinton's Campaign Creates Way To Make Money From Donald Trump's Tweets
Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:38PM Mark Zuckerberg Defends Peter Thiel's Trump Ties In Internal Memo
Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:59PM Clinton Campaign Considered Bill Gates, Tim Cook For Vice President
Monday October 17, 2016 @06:51PM Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump
Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:44PM Ken Bone May Have Violated FTC Guidelines With Uber Tweet
Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:44PM Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election
Wednesday October 12, 2016 @04:39PM Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks
Monday October 10, 2016 @01:43AM Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President
Monday October 03, 2016 @04:42PM FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say
Sunday October 02, 2016 @09:14PM WikiLeaks' Big Tuesday Announcement Will Now Take Place Via Video
Thursday September 29, 2016 @11:22PM Oscar Winners, Sports Stars and Bill Gates Are Building Lavish Bunkers
Wednesday September 28, 2016 @05:33PM US Believes Hackers Are Shielded By Russia To Hide Its Role In Cyberintrusions: WSJ
Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:36PM FBI Investigating Possible Hack of Democratic Party Staffer Cell Phones
Tuesday September 27, 2016 @05:33PM FCC Official Asks Agency To Investigate Ban On Journalists' Wi-Fi Personal Hotspots At Debate
Saturday September 24, 2016 @12:47AM Senators Accuse Russia Of Disrupting US Election
Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:43PM Colin Powell's Private Email Account Has Been Hacked
Tuesday September 13, 2016 @06:19PM Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case For Presidential Pardon
Friday September 09, 2016 @02:41AM AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health
Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:48PM Researcher Gets 20 Days In Prison For Hacking State Websites As Political Stunt
Monday August 29, 2016 @01:58PM FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems
Monday August 22, 2016 @04:34PM FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server
Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:49PM Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think
Thursday August 11, 2016 @09:06AM Hack of Democrats' Accounts Was Wider Than Believed, Officials Say
Wednesday August 10, 2016 @09:24PM Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source
Thursday August 04, 2016 @03:57PM Ask Slashdot: Should The DHS Designate Elections As Critical Infrastructure?
Tuesday August 02, 2016 @06:22PM Top DNC Staffers Leave Following WikiLeaks Email Scandal
Friday July 29, 2016 @10:28PM Bruce Schneier: Our Election Systems Must Be Secured If We Want To Stop Foreign Hackers