Italy tightens its coronavirus controls other countries are sending their support russia dispatches doctors and medical equipment to help battle the worlds deadliest coronavirus alfre. Im called aspen thanks for joining us we begin with some breaking news german chancellor Angela Merkel has been ordered into quarantine at home after she came into contact with a doctor who has since tested positive for the corona virus that announcement coming from the chancellor Spokes Person in just the last hour we want to go straight now to d. W. Political correspondent Emanuel Emanuel chancellor merkel in quarantine shes at home we believe after coming into contact with her doctor who had tested positive for corona virus what more do we know right now. Well indeed a Government Spokesperson stiffens i have confirmed that angle america has been ordered to stage a home to go into quarantine after being in contact with a doctor on friday days doctor who came to give her a vaccine a precautionary vaccin
Battle the worlds deadliest corona Virus Outbreak plus stop the sanctions iran says the u. S. Must lift its crippling economic embargo to help the country fight its devastating corona Virus Outbreak lets say braun has recently been checked is a u. S. Offer of 8. Im calling thanks for joining us german chancellor merkel has gone into home quarantine after she came into contact with someone who has been diagnosed with the corona virus on friday the 65 year old chancellor received a vaccine against a different virus from a doctor who later tested positive for coke at 19 medical spokesperson says she will undergo daily testing her last act before going into quarantine was to announce stringent new social restrictions nationwide. And give america about to announce the most severe infringement on individual freedoms seen in germany since world war 2 the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly convincing the chancellor that further containment measures are needed so far it have largely been l
Up next, a discussion on Election Security. This panel looks at preventing Voting Machines from being hacked. And talks about some of the benefits of paper ballots. Georgetown Laws Institute for Technology Law and policy hosted this series. Hi. Welcome. So im matt blaze. Im a professor here at georgetown in both the law school and Computer Science department. I want to welcome you to our afterlunch panel. Thank you for sticking around. On Digital Technologies and voting. We have, on our panel, who i will introduce very briefly, four very distinguished experts at various parts of the digital elections landscape. And and the technology and the risks of some of the Underlying Technology that is inherent there. And well be talking about this subject for from a very wide range of different perspectives. But all with a very technological bias. So im going to very briefly introduce these people. And im going to apologize now for being extremely incomplete in my introductions because they woul
Hi, welcome. So im mac, a professor here at georgetown, in the law school and Computer Science department. I welcome you to our after lunch panel. Thank you for sticking around. On Digital Technologies and coding. We have on our panel who i will introduce very briefly, four very distinguished experts at various parts of the digital elections landscape, and the technology and the risks of some of the Underlying Technology that is inherent there. And well be talking about this subject for, from a very wide range of different perspectives, but all with a very technological bias. So im going to very briefly introduce these people and i want to apologize now for being extremely incomplete in my introductions because they would take up the entire panel. Andrew appel is a profess her of Computer Science at princeton, where he served since 1986, and in fact, he was one of the members of my Doctoral Committee at princeton. His research focuses on software verification, security programming lang
Correspondent daniel new howser and congressional reporter pitterson, later anthony from the center for strategic and International Talk about the Foreign Policy challenges that are facing in 2018. Social media. But voters, wed, should make it a priority that basic knowledge pertaining to our government. Amy says it helps. I have learned so much from the social media. I can adjust my opinion to include new facts. Ive change my mind is some because of conversations with people online. One more from saul. A lot of people do not care about the research, it hurts, they end up spreading false information. That is a sampling of the discussion on our facebook page. Here is a poll. Different wording, but same idea, this is from surveymonkey from october, asked whether social media does more to help, promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt it. 51 surveyed in the late october poll said it did more to her democracy, 45 said it did more to help. Large majorities among hispanics and