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Voter Data Modeling: Does it Threaten Our Privacy?

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Dissent

Evan Halper writes about an issue I’ve raised in my own commentary on the risks of the explosion of voter profiling.

…. But as presidential campaigns push into a new frontier of voter targeting, scouring social media accounts, online browsing habits and retail purchasing records of millions of Americans, they have brought a privacy imposition unprecedented in politics. By some estimates, political candidates are collecting more personal information on Americans than even the most aggressive retailers. Questions are emerging about how much risk the new order of digital campaigning is creating for unwitting voters as the vast troves of data accumulated by political operations become increasingly attractive to hackers.

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