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StephenBuckley · 4338 days ago · link · · parent · post: How Obama used Big Data to rally individual voters
A lot of these quotes are horrifying.
Neither the Federal Trade Commission, which has investigated the handling of personal data by Google, Facebook and other companies, nor the Federal Election Commission has jurisdiction over how campaigns use such information, officials at those agencies say.
Does no one govern the parties? This is absurd.
geneusutwerk · 4338 days ago · link ·
The parties govern the parties! What could go wrong? Campaign data is weird though...It is this amalgamation of what is pulled from voter files (publicly available information), purchased from corporate data sources and added by the campaign (or passed to it from other political organizations). And of course those in power have a vested interest in keeping the status quo...