President Barack Obama wants companies like Google and Facebook to reform their privacy practices.
But that’s not stopping his reelection campaign from tapping the rich data Internet companies hold on millions of potential voters.
Obama for America has already invested millions of dollars in sophisticated Internet messaging, marketing and fundraising efforts that rely on personal data sometimes offered up voluntarily — like posts on a Facebook page— but sometimes not.
And according to a campaign official and former Obama staffer, the campaign’s Chicago-based headquarters has built a centralized digital database of information about millions of potential Obama voters.
It all means Obama is finding it easier than ever to merge offline data, such as voter files and information purchased from data brokers, with online information to target people with messages that may appeal to their personal tastes. Privacy advocates say it’s just the sort of digital snooping that his new privacy project is supposed to discourage.
Read more at Politico. By Dave Levinthal.
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Who gives a damn? I’m nearly 74 years old. What’s he going to do to me?
In case obama is looking at remarks, mine is “go to hell obama. You are holding the office illegally. You know it and the majority of Americans know it. You have lied ever since you stole the office you are in.” And I’m 72 years old and a Vietnam combat veteran. What the hell can you do to me that would scare me?
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