Sentences with phrase «voter data information»

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And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

Politics today is more about crunching data — voter demographic information, tracking what individual voters care about, and campaign donation histories — and then acting on it.

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.

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.

The Cruz algorithm was then applied to what the campaign calls an «enhanced voter file,» which can contain as many as 50,000 data points gathered from voting records, popular websites and consumer information such as magazine subscriptions, car ownership and preferences for food and clothing.

Kogan harvested and sold that data to Cambridge Analytica, a political firm that would use information on identity, social networks and likes to target demographics and influence voters.

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.

Revelations that a voter - profiling company that worked Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign harvested private information from 50 million Facebook profiles have many people wondering: What, if anything, can they do to protect their data connected to the social network?

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.

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.

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.

(U.S. Edition) Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that harvested personal information from Facebook users to target voters in the 2016 presidential election, is filing for bankruptcy.

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.

Though the users were assured that this information was gathered for academic research, but the data was leveraged by Cambridge Analytica to target and influence voters with specific personality types.

Kogan later passed this information on to voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica, which claimed (but now denies) that it used the data to craft political ads for President Trump's 2016 election.

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.

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.

With optimized charts and averages, PollTracker 2012 follows important swing states, provides key voter group information (independents, gender breakdown, voter subgroups) and offers specific detailed candidate data.

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...

Some of this data would have been recognizable to party operatives at the turn of the 19th century, such as voter files that contain information about the party registration and issue interests of citizens.

Update: A reader writes in to point out that Trump DOES have a data operation whether he knows it or not, and it's true that his campaign's purchased voter information from L2.

It stands accused of harvesting Facebook user data to profile voters that that were ultimately targeted by the Trump campaign, which spent over $ 6 million on information obtained by the firm.

Although basic voter information is public record, Deep Root's dataset contains a swirl of proprietary information from the RNC's data firms.

Trump's election integrity commission will make public records requests to obtain voter data from the states that have refused to turn over that information, the commission's vice chair said.

But it is home to the largely secret engine of President Obama's re-election campaign, where scores of political strategists, data analysts, corporate marketers and Web producers are sifting through information gleaned from Facebook, voter logs and hundreds of thousands of telephone or in - person conversations to reassemble and re-energize the scattered coalition of supporters who swept Mr. Obama into the White House four years ago.

Taking their lead from some of the best US campaigns, parties have been making extensive use of polling, local intelligence from voters, and additional useful information like consumer data, to produce microtargeted campaigns to raise turnout amongst specific groups in target seats.

The takeaway: Down - ballot campaigners are really using data, and they want advanced options for tracking and using information about voters, supporters and donors.

The party also distributed thousands of detailed surveys to voters in marginals, and merged all this polling data with information from electoral rolls and commercial market research to produce the most comprehensive picture yet of who might be persuaded to vote Conservative.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had refused the request for voter roll data in June, which asked for public information as well as private information such as voters» social security numbers.

Alaskans won't find any information about Trump in their voter's guide this year, after the GOP presidential nominee's campaign failed to submit biographical data and a candidate statement.

It said it would merge that information with consumer and voter history data to identify and target voters.

In this past cycle, they also used the latest data analysis and targeting techniques to decide which voters to contact, with key information streaming to mobile apps in the hands of canvassers going door - to - door.

This information is based on voter enrollment data released by New York State in November of 2017 https://www.elections.ny.gov/EnrollmentSD.html

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's election integrity commission will make public records requests to obtain voter data from the states that have refused to turn over that information, the commission's vice chair said Wednesday.

Washington (CNN) Democratic data gurus are lashing out at Hillary Clinton after she complained publicly that her campaign was hamstrung by a party that had out - of - date information on individual voters.

Data sets containing voter names and demographic information like addresses, party affiliation and even gender can be purchased or downloaded — often from government sites themselves — for only a few dollars.

Sweeney conceded, however, that altering voter information may not be as simple as finding the right data.

We used publicly available data, such as information from voter registration files, and what was reported to the campaign by people canvassing their neighborhoods, as well as information posted on Facebook and what was given in response to email requests.

But the implications for the future evolution of technologies that can spread hyper - biased or false information — combined with firms who have data to conduct psychological targeting of voters — are real.

According to the Statistical Policy Working Paper 22, the two main sources of disclosure risk for de-identified records about individuals are the existence of records with very unique characteristics (e.g., unusual occupation or very high salary or age) and the existence of external sources of records with matching data elements which can be used to link with the de-identified information and identify individuals (e.g., voter registration records or driver's license records).

The app collected psychological test data from Facebook users and their friends and shared the information with Cambridge Analytica, allowing the firm to deliver pro-Trump messaging to potential voters online.

Kogan harvested and sold that data to Cambridge Analytica, a political firm that would use information on identity, social networks and likes to target demographics and influence voters.

Other strategic information could include: connected third party application data; comments and likes on public Facebook pages; internet browsing history through Facebook APIs and scripts; consumer loyalty programs, mobile app logins; publicly shared photos and profile information that users forget about; and (I'm presuming) more mundane tactics such as harnessing unassuming personality «quizzes» on Facebook that capture invaluable psychometric data people readily share with their friends and families, but not with a psychological voter profiling firm.

In another case, in the late stages of the November election, Schweickert said the company acquired data on voters who voted early — data it collected from local counties and states — and linked the information to individual Facebook profiles.

Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by President Trump's 2016 election campaign, gained access to information on 50 million Facebook users as a way to identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.

Indeed, the Obama campaign was heralded for its data savviness in connecting with potential voters and also used Facebook profile information to target ads (though, to be clear, the Obama campaign didn't violate Facebook's terms, as Cambridge Analytica did).