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Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
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#22In other news, already known information. Every USA states has clear laws on releasing whose registered with which party, past affiliation and address. Clickbait.
There is a significant amount of data here that is not public or covered by the laws.
> Clickbait.
Even if no laws were broken, it may be news to those who are unaware that carveouts to PII disclosure laws have been made and their PII (along with polling data indicating preferences on lots of topics[1]) has been leaked.
Also, "politicians are at the very best so indifferent to citizen-unit privacy concerns that they can't be arsed to hire competent admins" may not exactly be news, but additional data points illustrative of that fact are.
[1] What can be done with that? Well, at the very least, a PI/con-artist/other party with a motivation to approach you cold would certainly love this sort of profile for anyone they're interested in. Think about it for a minute.
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#23So you think it is okay to model ethnicity and religion of 200 milion citizens? This is how my country got all their jews killed in WWII [0]. The mere thought of compiling such information here would lead to some hefty jail time these days. I really cannot believe you can even defend such a thing.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_registration#Netherlands
Re: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
#24Speaking as a guy with a lot of experience with voter data ( I built the first "where do I vote" apps for Google and helped found the voting information project):
This is actually almost entirely public data. Yes, including addresses and phone numbers and political affiliation. There are some states that is not public as part of the voter file, but you can still get it other ways publicly. For example: USPS, etc. Some states/players would make you sign agreements not to use it for commercial purposes.
The modeling info included is not public.
Acquiring 50 state data can be a bit of a pain, but there are at least two major players that will sell it to you. (I remember one of them literally laughed when I told them we would want the databases without any personal info included, because we just wanted the address to various political precinct mapping.)
Re: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
#25You can see if you have been breached in other similar breaches and leaks at https://HEROIC.com
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This is not spam, it is a public service to help those who have been compromised as Upguard is not providing the data for those that want to see if they have been breached. There are multiple sites you can check for free if you have been breached including haveibeenpwned which will inevitably be posted also.
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#26In 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/elec…
You can get the other info trivially from other public sources.
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#27In 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/elec…
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is spam.
This is not spam, it is a public service to help those who have been compromised as Upguard is not providing the data for those that want to see if they have been breached. There are multiple sites you can check for free if you have been breached including haveibeenpwned which will inevitably be posted also.
This is spam -- it's not a public service if you require registration to see results. It feels more like a ploy at grabbing email addresses than it does an actual security check.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is spam.
This is not spam, it is a public service to help those who have been compromised as Upguard is not providing the data for those that want to see if they have been breached. There are multiple sites you can check for free if you have been breached including haveibeenpwned which will inevitably be posted also.
Create an account to unlock your report :/
Re: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
#30You can see if you have been breached in other similar breaches and leaks at https://HEROIC.com
This is spam.
Totally. I entered an address I don't care about, and it just kept asking me for what is essentially a marketing profile:
- Is this a personal email address?
- Please enter 10 more email addresses that you use (i.e. are associated with this email address) so that we can "narrow down the search results."
Really. How is whether or not this is a personal email address meaningful in searching hacked data for the email address? I'm literally providing you with text to search against a database. You don't need other information.