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New The incompetence wasn't limited to Republican candidates.
The GOP’s 2016 presidential upset wasn’t surprising just because it put Donald Trump in the White House; it also proved the party had vastly improved its ability to exploit data, including precision ad targeting campaigns on Facebook. Now comes the fallout of all that information hoarding: A California-based security researcher says Republican-linked election databases were inadvertently exposed to the entire internet, sans password, potentially violating the privacy of almost every single registered voter in the United States.

The data trove was apparently made public by accident by one of the data-mining companies that compiled it. It includes a mix of private information and data gleaned from public voter rolls: “the voter’s date of birth, home and mailing addresses, phone number, registered party, self-reported racial demographic, voter registration status” as well as computer “modeled” speculation about each person’s race and religion, according to an analysis provided to The Intercept.
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UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that unsecured databases containing the sensitive personal details of over 198 million American voters was left exposed to the internet. The data, which was stored in a publicly accessible cloud server owned by Republican data firm Deep Root Analytics, included 1.1 terabytes of entirely unsecured personal information compiled by DRA and at least two other contractors, TargetPoint Consulting, Inc. and Data Trust. In total, the personal information of nearly all of America’s 200 million registered voters was exposed, including their names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration details, as well as voter ethnicities and religions as “modeled” by the firms’ data scientists.
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Each of fields under each of the forty-eight columns signifies the potential voter’s modeled likelihood of supporting the policy, political candidate, or belief listed at the top of the column, with zero indicating very unlikely, and one indicating very likely.

Calculated for 198 million potential voters, this adds up to a spreadsheet of 9.5 billion modeled probabilities, for questions ranging from how likely it is the individual voted for Obama in 2012, whether the agree with the Trump foreign policy of “America First,” and how likely they are to be concerned with auto manufacturing as an issue, among others.

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/19/republican-data-mining-firm-exposed-personal-information-for-virtually-every-american-voter/

And I get crap for saying the Internet has a net negative impact upon society.
bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.
Expand Edited by mmoffitt June 19, 2017, 04:44:58 PM EDT
Expand Edited by mmoffitt June 19, 2017, 04:45:00 PM EDT
New 'The Light of Other Days' paints a pretty good pic of the Death of privacy
(book by Arthur C. Clarke + a co-author..)
but who'd a thunk we could catch up with far-future imaginations, triggered merely by the juxtaposition of Two un-lovely picks out of three-hundred-million-plus humanoids?

While Nobody ever Does expect the Spanish Inquisition, I'm coming to believe that, many/perhaps most of my juvenile-Wonderings have already been near-decisively answered. :-/
[~~ Humans lie all the time, especially so-called-adults: to kids. Are homo-saps Really as unaware of their own psyches? are as gullible as we seem? ... and is this species-neurasthenia ever apt to be cured?? in any imaginable next.]
That last I doubt, officially.

Well you get the idea. There ARE waay-too-Many of us on this embattled planet (already preparing for Winning WW-III, wash, rinse). And the current crop of local fake-Legislators,
fake-Executive ... and fake-USSC (as fucking Approves Citizens United: knifing the faux-democratic-baby in its gizzard.]

Just maybe, then, I might be able to separate from ..umm, the Shit that's in a ballistic trajectory as we speak?



Carrion (Planet of?)
     The incompetence wasn't limited to Republican candidates. - (mmoffitt) - (1)
         'The Light of Other Days' paints a pretty good pic of the Death of privacy - (Ashton)

Obeying the Law of Gravity since 2001.
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