Eric Schmidt > April 2014 This is very scary to me! Tracking voters down through google? Someone who is more geeky than me please explain! https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/48822 : WikiLeaks
That is quite an interesting email regarding what they planned for volunteers and voter information. It seems to me that they're talking about making a profile online for everyone possible, then linking that profile by way of e-mail or other identifying information to their real-world name and address etc. This is done in an attempt to highlight activities of interest for the person/voter, and address them in their canvassing.
What is quite interesting to me, is that we always hear that our metadata and advertising information that is in use is just that, useful for advertising, etc., But if this were to create a national database of persons who are also voters in the national election, all of a sudden they have enormous amounts of information about the voting public individually. This database, presumably also stored somewhere other than Google, would be suspect to hacking attempts and abuse. I wonder if this would also use the data combed via e-mails etc., for advertisements. Could be quite a shock if the public learned that voters had a database of all online trackable / stored data that was legal to use for advertising purposes in a form that was not advertising! [not that I think it's illegal, or that I like it, but it is what it is- we all surf online and use the internet in ways tha these companies track us]
I wonder if we'd "ok" a use agreement that included tracking our voting in governmental elections and referendums and tying that to our personal data online. [This also smacks of the BBC online surfer ID that is being made- what if these political groups could access all that information at the push of a button?]
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That is quite an interesting email regarding what they planned for volunteers and voter information. It seems to me that they're talking about making a profile online for everyone possible, then linking that profile by way of e-mail or other identifying information to their real-world name and address etc. This is done in an attempt to highlight activities of interest for the person/voter, and address them in their canvassing.
What is quite interesting to me, is that we always hear that our metadata and advertising information that is in use is just that, useful for advertising, etc., But if this were to create a national database of persons who are also voters in the national election, all of a sudden they have enormous amounts of information about the voting public individually. This database, presumably also stored somewhere other than Google, would be suspect to hacking attempts and abuse. I wonder if this would also use the data combed via e-mails etc., for advertisements. Could be quite a shock if the public learned that voters had a database of all online trackable / stored data that was legal to use for advertising purposes in a form that was not advertising! [not that I think it's illegal, or that I like it, but it is what it is- we all surf online and use the internet in ways tha these companies track us]
I wonder if we'd "ok" a use agreement that included tracking our voting in governmental elections and referendums and tying that to our personal data online. [This also smacks of the BBC online surfer ID that is being made- what if these political groups could access all that information at the push of a button?]