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  • May 14, 2018 at 8:30 am

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    Eric M Russell - Wednesday, May 9, 2018 10:05 AM

    The worst part of it isn't that the data could ultimately sway the outcome of an election. I believe that using data analytics to identify a reliable list of "persuadable voters" is simply b--- s---, regardless of the nature or extent of the data. Instead, what's concerning to me is that is this vast hoard of data will be left improperly secured by technically incompetent snake oil salesmen, and then subsequently breached by 3rd party hackers who will leverage the data to commit identity or financial fraud.
    https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files

    Totally agree - if people are persuadable by a couple of adverts on their facebook / mobile phone is that something we can really do much about? Gullability is not something we can really legislate against. I live in hope that people can understand that if a decision is important they need to corroborate evidence and its a good idea not take it for written that someone  trying to sell you something  is telling the truth ( why I like forums they are about as neutral as you can get )