Weekly Roundup 9/26/2016

Are you ready for the first round of presidential debates to take place between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump tonight at 9pm EST, Readers? Never fear if you’ll be far from your TV - Twitter announced that it will be streaming the U.S. presidential debates in an effort to expand their platform online. Snapchat, YouTube, and Google have also partnered with the Commission on Presidential Debates and will be live streaming the first debate for viewers. Moreover, Facebook was charged with the task of gathering questions from the public to be asked by the moderators during the debate.

While neither the democratic nor republican party have heavily focused on technology-related issues, topics, such as security, privacy, and the speed at which technology-based programs are accelerating, will undoubtedly surface over the next few months. Get ahead by reading about the candidates’ respective stances here.

Tech News:

• Social Networks Prep for Key Role in Presidential Debates

• Where Clinton, Trump stand on 7 big tech issues

• This Singapore device turns your home into an urban farm

• What the North Korean internet really looks like

• Meeting Cellebrite - Israel's master phone crackers

• Google backs Obama's internet transition plan

• Opera's Free VPN Takes On Internet Privacy Challenge

• The Internet Is No Place for Public Elections

• Give Us Your Sexist Data, And We Will Give You an Apple Watch!

• In ballots we trust: E-voting, hacking and the 2016 election

• Uber wants to help Australians catch the bus on time

Civic Tech:

• The Growth of the Syrian Media and Reliable Voices

• Censorship in the 21st Century

• Turkey Overwhelmingly Leads World In Twitter Censorship

• Censoring the terrors of war

• Is there a sexist data crisis?

• What Is The True Cost of Collecting Performance Indicator Data?

• Inside Google’s Internet Justice League and It’s All-Powered War on Trolls

• What is the US-India Cyber Partnership and Why Does it Matter?

• Constraints and opportunities - what role for media development in countering violent extremism