Federal election 2021 and possibility of manipulation

Bundestag elections - Rhein Zeitung on manipulation in the election campaign

Currently (August ´21) you can find an article about our founders in the Rhein-Zeitung Tim Schughart and Immanuel Baer. In addition to a brief insight into the content of everyday tasks, the article refers to current challenges in the context of the upcoming federal elections.

Appeal to the public not be negligent

Politicians are increasingly being targeted by "hackers“. Although companies have invested a lot of money in data security in recent years, individuals - including politicians - can also be privately targeted. An example is negligently used free e-mail accounts, e.g. B. with a Phishing attack can easily be adopted.

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How can you manipulate the federal election?

Private statements, personal data and information can thus be exploited at the right time to the detriment of the person. The USA experienced this in the 2016 election campaign year.

Other topics in the article include the handling of customer data, advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and the "deepfake" phenomenon. Deepfakes are deceptively real photos of people that create a false representation with logos, backgrounds and other contextual content. These can be used to misrepresent statements and positions.

Videos can also be manipulated by skillfully adjusting the sound and the video clip in such a way that actions and statements are falsified into the complete opposite, as described in the article with the example of Horst Seehofer.

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The future after the federal election as a challenge

Finally, the article deals with new challenges for the legal system. For example, people in videos fictitiously invented by an AI framework can soon become suitable for the masses and thus also promote abuse.

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