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U.S. biodefense strategy is undermined by policies on health Insurance and immigration (By David Beier and Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Stat)
The strategy does not fully acknowledge that once an infectious disease risk emerges, the single best way to contain further spread is to make sure that people exposed to it receive medical care before they infect others. Undocumented immigrants are likely to avoid public health clinics where they may be identified, separated from their families, and deported.

In the age of A.I., is seeing still believing? (Joshua Rothman, New Yorker)
Advances in digital imagery could deepen the fake-news crisis—or help us get out of it.

Australian bill spells trouble for data privacy around the world (Satyajeet Marar, The Hill)
Anunlikely alliance of tech companies, start-ups and digital consumer rights groups has locked horns with the Australian government over its proposed anti-data encryption law, currently under review by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS).
Now, concerns are rising over just how far world governments, including the United States, will go to compromise citizen’s liberties for the sake of national security.

Brian Kemp was told of Georgia voter-rolls vulnerability hours before he accused GA Dems: Report (Daily Beast)
The office of Brian Kemp—the man responsible for running Georgia’s elections as secretary of state while he’s also locked in a tight race for governor—was informed Saturday that cybersecurity experts had identified a “massive vulnerability” in the state’s voter-registration system. However, the following day, Kemp appeared to ignore those concerns and instead attacked Georgia Democrats by announcing they were under investigation for hacking, the investigative journalism outlet Who What Why reports. The vulnerabilities, Who What Why reports, would allow “anyone with minimal computer expertise” to change or cancel the registrations of millions of Georgia voters. “For such an easy and low-hanging vulnerability to exist, it gives me zero confidence in the capabilities of the system administrator, software developer, and the data custodian,” the owner of a data-security consulting firm told Who What Why. Kemp is that data custodian. (Cont.)