We will collectively consider what the rules
around voter data should be given persistent and increasingly visible concerns over voter privacy, data security, targeted communications, and transparency.
Not exact matches
This was a year after University of Cambridge researcher Aleksandr Kogan first obtained the
data and
around the same time that Cambridge Analytica, which was co-founded by Steve Bannon, sought out
voter data with financial support from the Trump campaign.
The big story this time
around: an inside look at the role of Big
Data in the 2013 Virginia election, including the all - important «voter data feedback loop.&ra
Data in the 2013 Virginia election, including the all - important «
voter data feedback loop.&ra
data feedback loop.»
The current edition leads off with a discussion of the
voter -
data infrastructure being created by the Koch brothers» political machine, centered
around consulting firm i360.
TechPresident reports that the Obama campaign tested their new «Dashboard» system to let volunteers from
around the country make calls into Wisconsin, the AFL - CIO has trialed software that matches
voter lists with volunteers» Facebook friends to let them call targets that they actually know rather than total strangers, and the Walker campaign combined VoIP with digital
voter files to automate the connection between identification calls and
data entry.
In 2008, when
voter turnout rates were at or
around record highs, fewer than half (44.9 percent) of adults in households making less than $ 30,000 per year voted, according to Census Bureau
data.
The games unique design is built
around a custom - designed neural network that simulates
voters, pressure - groups, policies, statistical
data, event situations and dilemmas that face the government.
The
data firm started partnering with U.S. political campaigns
around 2015 with the promise that it had the ability to do what it called «psychographic» targeting, which allowed Cambridge Analytica to create psychological profiles to «effectively engage and persuade
voters using specially tailored language and visual ad combinations» that appeal to each person on an emotional level, according to Cambridge Analytica's website.
A cache of such
data — amounting to
around 50m people — was passed to Cambridge Analytica, the British research firm that has become controversial for its
voter targeting work with both the Trump campaign in the 2016 US election and the earlier Brexit vote in the UK.
That report, in turn, came just days after CA was suspended from Facebook over a
data incident in which it collected information on
around 50 million US
voters without their knowledge or consent.