Mass, Computer-generated, and Fraudulent Comments

Résumé du livre

"This report explores three forms of commenting in federal rulemaking that have been enabled by technological advances: mass, fraudulent, and computer-generated comments. The report focuses on a particular type of mass comment response, which it terms a 'mass comment campaign,' in which organizations orchestrate the submission of large numbers of identical or nearly identical comments. Fraudulent comments, which we refer to as 'malattributed comments' refer to comments falsely attributed to persons by whom they were not, in fact, submitted. Computer-generated comments are generated not by humans, but rather by software algorithms. This report examines the legal, practical, and technical issues associated with processing and responding to mass, fraudulent, and computer-generated comments"--Page 2.