No big deal - almost everyone publishes easily garnered info-metrics on Facebook, etc.

No one will be fined, no one will fall on their sword, all will be brushed under the carpet, and no one will trip on the resultant carpet-covered hump.

SepticSceptic:

 

No big deal - almost everyone publishes easily garnered info-metrics on Facebook, etc.

 

No one will be fined, no one will fall on their sword, all will be brushed under the carpet, and no one will trip on the resultant carpet-covered hump.

 

Ehh, it's a bit worse than that - 

"Each record lists:

• a voter's name,
• date of birth,
• home address,
• phone number,

and voter registration details, such as which political party a person is registered with. The data also includes "profiling" information, voter ethnicities and religions, and various other kinds of information pertinent to a voter's political persuasions and preferences, as modeled by the firms' data scientists, in order to better target political advertising."

Ironic that this data dump comes from a analytics firm hired by Republicans to use Big Data for better targeting voters, at the same time they complained about Clinton's email server not being "secure" - a server that AFAIK wasn't breached into.

"very seriously" is in some way different from merely "seriously"?

I'd been asked to create something similar for NZ sites for an unnamed client, like stuff comments, nz herald comments, geekzone, and blogs like whaleoil but had some difficulties scraping.

Thought I'd take a look at this list out of curiosity (its on some common darknet sites currently), but it downloaded slowly plus I've run out of space, so off to buy another SSD from PBtech.

...kidding...

Geektastic:

 

"very seriously" is in some way different from merely "seriously"?

 

They said it, not me. Every time there is any kind of breach anywhere, or any doubts expressed about some new super-database (or government-mandated privacy penetrator), or the data collection policies of any large organisation, the standardised boiler plate bla bla response is: 'we take your security very seriously'. I was merely quoting/paraphrasing/sarcastifying.

As I read this it's combination of information from public registers and assumptions/predictions about political views, religion etc

Geektastic:

 

"very seriously" is in some way different from merely "seriously"?

 

"very seriously" = "bigly" 

Rikkitic:

Private details of 200 million Americans have been dumped on the Internet. Open season for identity thieves.

Hmmm, are you ever going to respond to a survey ever again?

So the take-away for your average Joe as I see it is don't use your real name on the internet, use different names on different sites, and don't allow IP logging on forums. Keep big brother guessing.

Am I right, or is there something more technical that I'm missing?

tehgerbil:

 

SepticSceptic:

 

No big deal - almost everyone publishes easily garnered info-metrics on Facebook, etc.

 

No one will be fined, no one will fall on their sword, all will be brushed under the carpet, and no one will trip on the resultant carpet-covered hump.

 

 

 

 

Ehh, it's a bit worse than that - 

 

"Each record lists:

 

• a voter's name,
• date of birth,
• home address,
• phone number,

and voter registration details, such as which political party a person is registered with. The data also includes "profiling" information, voter ethnicities and religions, and various other kinds of information pertinent to a voter's political persuasions and preferences, as modeled by the firms' data scientists, in order to better target political advertising."

 

so basically a souped up white pages .

I thought the Republicans used Cambridge Analytica? Or was that just Cruz and Trump?

Sideface:

Geektastic:

"very seriously" is in some way different from merely "seriously"?

"very seriously" = "bigly"