Sentences with phrase «of voter information»

On Friday, the government won another court case, allowing it to bar the use of voter information cards as a valid form of identification.

The Democrats and Republicans each wield increasingly complex software packed full of voter information, opinions and support.

This constant flow of voter information allowed the campaign to refine its outreach over time, helping it to use resources, particularly volunteer time, efficiently.

Winners will be determined not just by their financial war chest, but by the size of their voter information database.

Not exact matches

Schwerin went on to say that adviser Minyon Moore had raised tough questions about the wisdom of making the speech because it could «unintentionally end up elevating questions that aren't yet being widely asked and introduce new damaging information, especially super predator, to a lot more voters.»

In one case, ICE officers were said to be «following a lead» and that they «received information» on the specific room number of a suspect who hours earlier had shown the front - desk clerk a Mexican voter ID card.

AggregateIQ is also under investigation by privacy commissioners in Ottawa, B.C. and the United Kingdom for its alleged role in the controversy that has engulfed Cambridge Analytica, which has been accused of improperly using private Facebook information from millions of users to influence voters and give the «Leave» side a win in the U.K.'s 2016 Brexit referendum.

Hence, voters who value full disclosure would like to see not just his returns, but lots of additional information demonstrating that the two categories are kept scrupulously separate.

Deep Root emphasized in its statement that the data that was accessed «was, to the best of our knowledge, proprietary information as well as voter data that is publicly available and readily provided by state government offices.»

The information did not include highly sensitive information like Social Security numbers, and much of it was publicly available voter - registration data provided by state government officials, a company spokesman told Business Insider on Tuesday.

Time reported on Thursday that the hackers successfully altered voter information in at least one election database and stole thousands of voter records containing private information like Social Security numbers.

Trump's explanation of where the jobs went was simple enough to resonate with even the most low - information voters: They went to Mexico and China, shipped there by politicians who cut trade deals tailored to benefit multinational corporations, not American workers.

But the exposed database combined people's personal information and political inclinations — including proprietary information gathered via predictive modeling tools — to create a detailed profile of nearly 200 million Americans that would be a «gold mine» for anyone looking to target and manipulate voters, said Archie Agarwal, the founder of the cybersecurity firm ThreatModeler.

It was Zuckerberg's job in the hearing to provide reassurance in the wake of the news that political data firm Cambridge Analytica harvested information from more than 87 million Facebook users to create voter profiles that were used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Cambridge Analytica is accused of collecting the personal information of 50 million users of the Facebook social network without their consent and would have used it to develop software to predict and influence voter voting during the campaign American election according to the New York Times and the Guardian.

Its report about Facebook covering the period from 2015 to 2017 — a time during which Cambridge Analytica may have tapped Facebook data to create «psychographic» profiles of voters — found that Facebook's privacy controls «were operating with sufficient effectiveness,» according to copies of its reviews obtained through open - records requests by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a watchdog group.

The personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users ended up in the hands of the voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked with the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.

We must take action in the face of serious allegations that democracy is being manipulated through analysis of the personal information of voters.

Alexander Nix, the CEO of the London - based voter profiling company Cambridge Analytica — which harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users without their permission to analyze their voter behavior — has been suspended from his job.

A voter - profiling company was able to harvest data of 50 million Facebook profiles even though only about 270,000 users agreed to hand over their information.

Which does rather underline CA's priorities in this project: Obtain, as fast as possible, lots of personal data on US voters, but don't worry much about keeping that personal information safe.

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

That information was then used by Cambridge Analytica to build psychological profiles of voters in the United States and others.

When Obama preyed upon the emotions of low information voters, many on the right were critical not just of Obama and his insubstantial campaigns, but of the uninformed, ill - informed, and misinformed voters who flocked to him in ignorance.

He adds that the theory that voters were swayed by hoaxes assumes that Trump voters were unsophisticated consumers of information, which he doesn't buy.

Kogan's app also provided access to «more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it,» Grewal wrote — aka friends of friends — which allowed Cambridge to build profiles for millions of potential voters.

Facebook proved to be an efficient backdoor for micro-targeting the minds of millions of voters, further isolating people in information bubbles of their own «truth.»

Dubbed Facebook's «collapse» of public trust, the double revelation that Cambridge Analytica, ostensibly a voter - profiling company, collected the data of 50 million Facebook accounts without user permission, and that thousands of third - party developers built apps on Facebook's platform to gather private information has spurred international outrage.

That's the question many Americans are asking after revelations that a data - mining firm working for the Trump campaign improperly got its hands on the personal information of tens of millions of Facebook users and created detailed profiles that were used to target unsuspecting voters in the presidential election.

A personality research app he created gathered the personal information on 270,000 Facebook users, as well as data on those users» friends, amplifying the reach to the tens of millions when it passed that data to Cambridge for a voter targeting scheme.

The issue of independence comes down to the credibility of Statistics Canada and the information it provides to voters and governments, Smith said.

India's information technology minister last week warned against any abuse of social media in elections, following reports that the analytics firm improperly accessed information on millions of Facebook users to target U.S. voters.

This database contains each voter's name, as well as basic personal information (such as mailing address, sex, and date of birth).

Facebook continues to reel from increased scrutiny and criticism in the wake of allegations that it provided users» personal information to data firm Cambridge Analytica, which was then used to influence voters in the 2016 US presidential campaign.

In Edwards» case, his lawyers argued $ 1 million in secret payments to Edwards» pregnant mistress by Edwards» donors were aimed at shielding his wife, Elizabeth, who died of cancer in 2010, not hiding the information from voters.

The Guardian reports the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is launching an investigation into the collection and use of voters» personal data in political campaigns.

We must stay vigilant against the absolute * nutters * or * low information voters * that are Fox News junkies of our society.

Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.

Dahl then zeroed in on television coverage: «Voters are asked to make judgments about the character of the candidates — without real discussion, with advertising and sound bites that trivialize their differences and give limited and prejudicial information.

Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..

We're just proud as hell to be one of the first to provide this information in a way that actually allows the average voter to sort of «meet» their candidates and hear them give their take on actual questions about issues relevant to them — especially since these days, people get more and more of their information online.

The more candidates a voter has to consider, the less likely a voter is to make an informed decision about any of those candidates and the harder it is for the media to communicate information about the people who represent the voter to the voter so that the voter may make referendum style decisions to vote out a bum who is underperforming or acting contrary to the voter's wishes.

Also note that companies like Catalist and NGPVAN don't just sell the voter file; they typically add additional data, for instance by cross-referencing voter information with consumer databases to build up demographic profiles of individual citizens.

Ergo, since voters don't always know what's good for them, this gives rise to the category of moral wrongdoing called populism, in which politicians give voters what they want, rather than giving voters what they would want if they were better informed and / or better at processing the relevant kind (s) of information.

At a news conference on Wednesday, NDC's General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, demanded the arrest of Dr. Bawumia for allegedly falsifying information to buttress a claim of the NPP that there were about 76,000 Togolese in Ghana's voters» register.

Another consideration: just about any campaign can also benefit from having a body of clear, topical and targeted content on published on the web in a variety of outlets, since voters, bloggers and journalists alike will be turning to Google and other search engines for basic information about races and candidates.

When Zephyr Teachout looked at the Republican candidates» sites from the point of view of an undecided voter a few weeks ago, she pointed out how few made it easy to find basic information about why someone SHOULD support the candidate.

At one of this year's many data - focused Netroots Nation panels, former Obama data guru Ethan Roeder noted something about the effective use of voter - targeting technologies: that's it's less about the data itself, and more about creating a culture of letting the information in...

It is right that Scottish voters are given as much information as possible about the likely outcome of a «yes» vote.