The firm shares
RNC voter data with other political action groups such as American Crossroads, American Action Network and groups linked to the billionaire Koch brothers, according to published reports.
«The exposure of
RNC voter data ups the ante for election security in 2018 and beyond,» says Pierson.
A Trump campaign spokesperson, however, denied that the campaign used Cambridge Analytica's data at all, saying the Trump operation instead relied on
the RNC voter data.
Not exact matches
Deep Root Analytics, a conservative
data firm contracted by the
RNC as part of a push to ramp up its
voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.
Although basic
voter information is public record, Deep Root's dataset contains a swirl of proprietary information from the
RNC's
data firms.
(
RNC Data Trust is the Republican party's primary
voter file provider.)
«The campaign used the
RNC for its
voter data and not Cambridge Analytica,» the campaign said in a statement.
RNC Genius Consultant Opens Up 198 Million
Voters»
Data To Everyone Crooks and Liars - June 19, 2017
The foundation, according to the internal document is «the
RNC data trust» — a «primary
data source» that would be combined with «state
voter files, consumer
data (and) third party
data providers.»