Second, here’s the Kansas state government website for obtaining a driver’s history. Look closely at the user interface design. There’s a notice about the DPPA, and then the user has to affirmatively attest to the specific DPPA exception that makes them eligible to obtain a person’s driving records.

Here’s a great example of why survey design is so important. NPR/Marist asked about raising the debt ceiling so the government can “pay its bills” & “avoid a default.” 52-42 for a clean increase. CNN/SSRS gave a wordy & budget-ish prompt (“keep all government programs running”). 60-24 the other way!

We just published a literature review of content moderation methods for end-to-end encrypted communications. There are nearly 400 relevant references! 😵‍💫

https://petsymposium.org/popets/2023/popets-2023-0060.pdf

Sarah Scheffler, who’s an *amazing* fellow at Princeton CITP, deserves all the credit.

While Twitter's slapdash encrypted DMs are already old news, I want to highlight a drawback that’s sorta flown under the radar: one of the goals is integration with the Twitter website. That's a bad idea. You can’t build E2EE with ordinary web tech and achieve strong security and privacy guarantees.

On the upside, it’s now easier to explain online survey sampling bias in one screenshot.

Twitter’s paid “verification” just got worse, again. The blue check used to have a popup with a quasi-disclaimer that verification meant a subscription and a working phone. That text is gone.

On the upside, the argument that Twitter “verification” violates consumer deception law just got stronger.