Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak

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Post by danso » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 1:42 PM UTC

Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
upguard.com

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Post by rootsudo » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 2:23 PM UTC

In other news, already known information. Every USA states has clear laws on releasing whose registered with which party, past affiliation and address.

Clickbait.

Re: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak

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Post by yincrash » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 2:30 PM UTC

rootsudo wrote: post #2

In other news, already known information. Every USA states has clear laws on releasing whose registered with which party, past affiliation and address. Clickbait.

Are you sure it's all public known information?

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The data was amassed from a variety of sources—from the banned subreddit r/fatpeoplehate to American Crossroads, the super PAC co-founded by former White House strategist Karl Rove.

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Post by msumpter » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 2:33 PM UTC

rootsudo wrote: post #2

In other news, already known information. Every USA states has clear laws on releasing whose registered with which party, past affiliation and address. Clickbait.

Here is the direct link to Upguard's write up (most of the Gizmodo details are here): https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files

It is mostly publicly available data, but not always easily accessible (states have varying requirements and methods of acquisition), firms go through quite a bit to get aggregate files in all 50 states. For them to be put up with no protection is jarring. But not surprising with other recent disclosures.

I only wish we had access to the files to do some queries across them!

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Post by 317070 » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 2:56 PM UTC

rootsudo wrote: post #2

In other news, already known information. Every USA states has clear laws on releasing whose registered with which party, past affiliation and address. Clickbait.

From the article:

> 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.

In some Western countries, the mere existence of such a database would be illegal. Especially relating to religion and ethnicity. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/can-the-french-talk-...

In the US, it is leaked online.

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Post by chillingeffect » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 2:59 PM UTC

rootsudo wrote: post #2

In other news, already known information. Every USA states has clear laws on releasing whose registered with which party, past affiliation and address. Clickbait.

> already known information.

No. Records released include "names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration details, as well as data described as “modeled” voter ethnicities and religions." [0]

Dates of Birth, Phone Numbers, Email Addresses are not public information. [1] [2]

[0] OP

[1] http://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,4670,7-127-29836-88651--F,00.h...

[2] http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/FAQs/GeneralRegist...

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Post by sschueller » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 3:09 PM UTC

Wow, not good:

   "State", "Juriscode", "Jurisname", "CountyFIPS", "MCD", "CNTY", "Town", "Ward", "Precinct", "Ballotbox", "PrecinctName", "NamePrefix", "FirstName", "MiddleName", "LastName", "NameSuffix", "Sex", "BirthYear", "BirthMonth", "BirthDay", "OfficialParty", "StateCalcParty", "RNCCalcParty", "StateVoterID", "JurisdictionVoterID", "LastActiveDate", "RegistrationDate", "VoterStatus", "SelfReportedDemographic", "ModeledEthnicity", "ModeledReligion", "ModeledEthnicGroup", "RegistrationAddr1", "RegistrationAddr2", "RegHouseNum", "RegHouseSfx", "RegStPrefix", "RegStName", "RegStType", "RegstPost", "RegUnitType", "RegUnitNumber", "RegCity", "RegSta", "RegZip5", "RegZip4", "RegLatitude", "RegLongitude", "RegGeocodeLevel", "ChangeOfAddress", "COADate", "COAType", "MailingAddr1", "MailingAddr2", "MailHouseNum", "MailHouseSfx", "MailStPrefix", "MailStName", "MailStType", "MailStPost", "MailUnitType", "MailUnitNumber", "MailCity", "MailSta", "MailZip5", "MailZip4", "MailSortCodeRoute", "MailDeliveryPt", "MailDeliveryPtChkDigit", "MailLineOfTravel", "MailLineOfTravelOrder", "MailDPVStatus", "MADR_LastCleanse", "MADR_LastCOA", "AreaCode", "TelephoneNUm", "TelSourceCode", "TelMatchLevel", "TelReliability", "FTC_DoNotCall"

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Post by kjhughes » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 3:12 PM UTC

Being discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14586920

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Post by wyldfire » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 3:16 PM UTC

kjhughes wrote: post #8

Being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14586920

Great to merge the discussion but IMO the Upguard article is original/superior details.

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Post by ryanlol » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 3:19 PM UTC

317070 wrote: post #5

rootsudo wrote: post #2

In other news, already known information. Every USA states has clear laws on releasing whose registered with which party, past affiliation and address. Clickbait.

From the article: > 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. In some Western countries, the mere existence of such a database would be illega…

>In the US, it is leaked online.

It's not a "leak" when the data is entirely public already...