Data owns the (electoral) future

[OUTLAW 09]

The most disturbing part of this isn't the volume & detail of voter info that was compromised......It's the collection of it.

The leaked info "paints a detailed portrait of virtually all of America’s 200 million voters."https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/19/republican-contractor-database-every-voter-exposed-internet-12-days-researcher-says/


"These political data firms might as well be working for the Russians."
...do we know they aren't?

This is a such an important point: Taken to this extreme level, voter targeting really is a threat to democracy.

Appears that the loss of 198M US voters' personal information and voting information which could provide a rather detailed voter preference which was "stolen" by unknown persons BECAUSE it was left on an open unsecured location on an Amazon cloud server for 21 days was handled by a US defense contractor SCL...

SCL used to be owned by Trump special advisor Bannon before he sold it to Cambridge Analytica now owned by billionaire Mercer....

SCL is now being investigated by UK concerning this data breach which effected virtually ALL US voters.....

UK Information Commissioner opens a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes:
https://iconewsblog.wordpress.com/20...al-purposes/#…

They are investigating as well the connections between the US defense contractor SCL and CA and whether they are actually the same company just different names...

SCL and CA pride themselves in being "big data" and storage companies YET this was a massive breach and caused by themselves...

Some of the data sets that SCL had ......