Sentences with phrase «voter information in»

Note that if you're running for elected office in the U.S., the national parties are developing and fielding systems to put voter information in the hands of their candidates at all levels.

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.

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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.

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.»

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 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.

The information gathered was then allegedly used to send targeted advertisements to American voters in 2016 urging them to elect Donald Trump, who eventually won his bid for the US presidency.

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.

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.

Facebook has faced a global outcry and sharp questions about its privacy safeguards after reports revealed that an independent researcher passed information covering some 50m users to the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which were then used by Donald Trump's campaign team to target swing voters in the 2016 presidential election.

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.»

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.

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.

(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.

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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.

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.

From the Yes We Can video to the Obama's - a-Muslim emails, political campaigns in 2008 both benefited and suffered from the information that voters passed around among themselves.

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.

«Provisional ballots» (say, for a voter who lacks adequate ID) are packaged in two envelopes, one with full voter information and the second (inner) one that is completely anonymized.

More likely, however, the campaign might offer exclusive information about the campaign or promise the voter that they will be the first to know about important developments in the race [Ed.

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...

Imagine a scenario in which you needed to have a confirmed, double opt - in from a voter to hold any information about that person.

I believe that mail - in ballots follow a similar procedure; full information to check to make sure that the voter has not already voted, and then an anonymized ballot packet.

Regardless of their size, though, just about any campaign can also benefit from having a body of clear, topical and targeted content on the web in a variety of outlets, since voters, bloggers and journalists alike will be turning to Mr. Google for basic information about local races.

And in the future too, we should expect to see ever more intense efforts to reach more and more potentially persuadable or potentially «mobilizable» voters in high - stakes, well - resourced, competitive elections, even as the majority of Americans who live in states and districts that are not competitive will hear less and less from campaigns as they, quite reasonably, use all available information to concentrate their resources where they think they matter.

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.

Where those attempts have struggled, though, is in combining all these traditional methods with the information that voters are actually telling them every day.

The group does not outright advocate for one candidate or another, but instead take advantage of a loophole in reporting rules for independent expenditure campaigns and just provide voter «information.»

«The ads online are amplifying what voters were seeing on TV and [online] is where a lot of people are getting their information now, it's a recognition of that, you can't run a campaign in 2013 without that,» she said.

The UK Information Commissioner, Britain's privacy watchdog, in March began examining the firm's role in the successful 2016 push to persuade British voters to «Brexit» the European Union.

Vote splitting most easily occurs in plurality voting because the ballots don't gather any information about the secondary preferences of the voters.

Social media is growing in importance for younger voters, and it has become the primary way they consume information, political or otherwise, Brewer said.

«By requiring nonprofits to disclose the extent and nature of their electioneering activities, we are protecting prospective donors from misleading solicitations, and giving voters more information about who is behind many of the ads they will see in this year's elections,» Schneiderman stated.

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.

In an interview, he was clear that to him the two main issues at the BOE are the political patronage in appointments and the lack of an efficient voter information portaIn an interview, he was clear that to him the two main issues at the BOE are the political patronage in appointments and the lack of an efficient voter information portain appointments and the lack of an efficient voter information portal.

Summer's site is trying to put out good and clear information about elections around the country, while also providing candidates a platform to reach voters in addition to their own websites and other online channels.

«The Electoral Commission recommended that the government should arrange for a booklet to be sent to voters with information about all police and crime commissioner candidates in their area,» chief executive Peter Wardle said.

Lawyer Nimako Marfo is requesting the EC to make public information on when the name of Dr. Rawlings was entered in Ghana's electoral roll if indeed she is a registered voter.

The information request is «what % of voters say they voted tactically in 2010», which is a question about voting behaviour under the current system.