GOP Data Firm Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million American Voters - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE]Political data gathered on more than 198 million US citizens was exposed this month after a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee stored internal documents on a publicly accessible Amazon server.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The data leak contains a wealth of [B]personal information on roughly 61 percent of the US population[/B]. Along with home addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers, the records include advanced sentiment analyses used by political groups to predict where individual voters fall on hot-button issues such as gun ownership, stem cell research, and the right to abortion, as well as suspected religious affiliation and ethnicity.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Deep Root’s data sheds light onto the increasingly sophisticated data operation that has fed recent Republican campaigns and lays bare the intricate network of political organizations, PACs, and analysis firms that trade in bulk voter data. In an email to Gizmodo, Deep Root said that [B]its voter models are used to enhance the understanding of TV viewership for political ad buyers[/B]. “The data accessed was not built for or used by any specific client,” Lundry said. “It is our proprietary analysis to help inform local television ad buying.” However, the presence of data on the server from several political organizations, including TargetPoint and Data Trust, suggests that [B]it was used for Republican political campaigns[/B]. Deep Root also works primarily with GOP customers (although similar vendors, such as NationBuilder, service the Democrats as well). [/QUOTE] [[URL="https://gizmodo.com/gop-data-firm-accidentally-leaks-personal-details-of-ne-1796211612"]Source[/URL]] The whole thing is pretty embarrassing, but nothing new to the 'movement'. Data manipulation at its finest.

[url=https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files]Here's the Upguard article about it[/url] [quote]Deep Root Analytics, the Republican data firm which created and maintained the exposed data warehouse, was co-founded in 2013 by Alex Lundry, a Republican campaign data scientist who had served as data director in Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful 2012 presidential campaign. It was a pedigree that would earn Lundry a position as “Chief Analytics Officer” with the 2016 Republican presidential campaign of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.[/quote] You have quite the pedigree Mr. Lundry. :pudge:

Anywhere I can get that data? Curious how they think my political views are. [Considering how the reps in my state have been acting, probably completely wrong.]

I wonder if this is gonna be used for gerrymandering. [quote]More than a terabyte was stored on the cloud server without the protection of a password and could be accessed by anyone who found the URL.[/quote] :ohno:

2/3 of the whole country, holy fuck

How did they get information from 200 million people. I better not be on there or I'm contacting a lawyer. I don't want my information leaked because some idiot doesn't know anything about data security.

[QUOTE=Aide;52378356]How did they get information from 200 million people. I better not be on there or I'm contacting a lawyer. I don't want my information leaked because some idiot doesn't know anything about data security.[/QUOTE] Since you beat me to it, I think you should definitely contact your lawyer and possibly discuss a class action suit

[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;52378227]I wonder if this is gonna be used for gerrymandering. :ohno:[/QUOTE] Fucking hell. [I]Why???[/I]

Makes a change, usually they're [I]intentionally[/I] selling it to companies who want to give you better targetted ads to throw in your face

this shit is super indepth [url]https://gizmodo.com/gop-data-firm-accidentally-leaks-personal-details-of-ne-1796211612[/url] they rated voters based on a 0 to 1 scale of how much they would vote for a candidate, what policies they agreed with, etc. [t]http://i.imgur.com/QZ9Wkgc.jpg[/t] had entire addresses, names, etc. in plain text [t]http://i.imgur.com/MuMR4uh.jpg[/t] Files on US Officials [t]http://i.imgur.com/iIyvj3F.jpg[/t] and [QUOTE]Some of the data included in Deep Root’s dataset veers into downright bizarre territory. A folder titled simply ‘reddit’ houses 170 GBs of data apparently scraped from several subreddits, including the controversial r/fatpeoplehate that was home to a community of people who posted pictures of people and mocked them for their weight before it was banned from Reddit’s platform in 2015. Other subreddits that appear to have been scraped by Deep Root or a partner organization focused on more benign topics, like mountain biking and the Spanish language. The Reddit data could’ve been used as training data for an artificial intelligence algorithm focused on natural language processing, or it might have been harvested as part of an effort to match up Reddit users with their voter registration records. During the 2012 election cycle, Barack Obama’s campaign data team relied on information gleaned from Facebook profiles and matched profiles to voter records.[/QUOTE] this shit is absolutely terrifying for anyone to have. They know who you are, where you live, and how you think if you voted in the 2016 election or earlier.

so how can i see if my shit got leaked

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;52378824]so how can i see if my shit got leaked[/QUOTE] There's nothing really like that right now, its such a gigantically huge leak. just assume for now that if you voted in the 2016 election or earlier, you got leaked.[URL="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/how-many-registered-voters-are-in-america-2016-229993"] There's only 200 Million voters as of 2016[/URL]. there's 198 million leaked.

[QUOTE=Wii60;52378827]There's nothing really like that right now, its such a gigantically huge leak. just assume for now that if you voted in the 2016 election or earlier, you got leaked.[URL="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/how-many-registered-voters-are-in-america-2016-229993"] There's only 200 Million voters as of 2016[/URL]. there's 198 million leaked.[/QUOTE] slightly relieving in my instance, i've moved since i've registered

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;52378836]slightly relieving in my instance, i've moved since i've registered[/QUOTE] So have I, although the address likely on file for my voter record is my my parents home. I don't have any of those documents sent to my apartment since the mail always seems to get lost. Better not piss anyone off so that they harass my folks, I guess.

what really scares me is the fact that they are apparently able to process such huge amounts of data that they can for example match up your reddit profile to your real name and address this shit is downright terrifying and I'm glad the EU has at least some bit more strict data privacy laws (and more to come)

I don't think anyone [I]wants[/I] to live in a post-identity society, but if we don't stop storing tens of millions of peoples' private information in the same fucking document hosted on unsecured servers, that's exactly what we're going to get. Soon, your credit history will be meaningless because almost all of it will be shit done by other people who've stolen your identity. Americans' SSNs will become meaningless except for paying taxes (and the IRS doesn't care who pays your taxes; scammers likely aren't going to be nice to you like that). On the other hand, it's also almost perfect cover for explaining away anything you don't like if there isn't direct evidence you did it. Outstanding debts on your credit when you go to get a loan? Not me, identity thieves. Facebook profile with shitty hateful content on it? I didn't say that fags should burn, someone opened an account in my name using stolen info to try and scam my friends and then turned to trolling and shitposting racism when it didn't work.

Is this up for download anywhere? Could be fun to run some numbers on it.

[QUOTE=Aide;52378356]How did they get information from 200 million people. I better not be on there or I'm contacting a lawyer. I don't want my information leaked because some idiot doesn't know anything about data security.[/QUOTE] From voter registration. When you register to vote, the information you put down is pseudo-public information (e.g. anyone willing to cough up money to database companies can look you up). No surprise that they have records on all voters. If you ever registered to vote, they probably have your address. As does anyone with a Lexis account - including myself and everyone I work with. Like I said the last time this sort of thing came up, your information is not private anymore. Just isn't.

Who needs russian hackl0rdz, ya guys just doing fine on your own.

[QUOTE=karimatrix;52379030]Who needs russian hackl0rdz, ya guys just doing fine on your own.[/QUOTE] makes you wonder why this didn't leak during the presidential election...

I would have thought 2/3rds of the country would be bigger than a terabyte

[QUOTE=Snowmew;52378988]From voter registration. When you register to vote, the information you put down is pseudo-public information (e.g. anyone willing to cough up money to database companies can look you up). No surprise that they have records on all voters. If you ever registered to vote, they probably have your address. As does anyone with a Lexis account - including myself and everyone I work with. Like I said the last time this sort of thing came up, your information is not private anymore. Just isn't.[/QUOTE] from what i remember, parties can solicit the info from election boards, but they also have massive info gathering operations through polling, surveys, online and real world canvasing too so this list represented an extreme investment

[QUOTE=Lambeth;52379673]I would have thought 2/3rds of the country would be bigger than a terabyte[/QUOTE] plain text i doubt it.

[QUOTE=Radical_ed;52378947]Is this up for download anywhere? Could be fun to run some numbers on it.[/QUOTE] I was thinking it would be fun to poke around it as well, but I doubt we'll be seeing a download link to this data set anytime soon.

[QUOTE=Wii60;52378818][t]http://i.imgur.com/QZ9Wkgc.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] This is literally data prepped for machine learning and statistical analysis. I wouldn't be surprised to find out there's half a million dollars worth of GPUs crunching that data somewhere.

[QUOTE=nikomo;52380403]This is literally data prepped for machine learning and statistical analysis. I wouldn't be surprised to find out there's half a million dollars worth of GPUs crunching that data somewhere.[/QUOTE] Now its out in the wild probably more. This is of interest to foreign governments, advertisers, insurance etc

I bet Russia has a copy of this, now. Great! :v:

ima make an addon for gmod which auto doxxes everyone who joins the server and sends a text to their parents warning them what they're kids are getting into. To republican parents I'll tell them about gang bang sex poses between dr breen and vortigaunts, to democrat parents I'll tell them about their son playing as Adolf Hitler mayor and ordering hobos be shot on sight. On a more serious note it'd be interesting to see if certain names correlate with political alignment. This data will definitely be used for bad at some point.

[QUOTE=nikomo;52380403]This is literally data prepped for machine learning and statistical analysis. I wouldn't be surprised to find out there's half a million dollars worth of [b]GPUs[/b] crunching that data somewhere.[/QUOTE] Uhhh. :v:

At least the information that is leaked is only stuff you would find in a phone-book. (Unless I'm missing something)