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To view this request through a different lens, in what ways could this information be used maliciously? The immediate thought that comes to mind for me is a po

• megous 8y ago
  If all the parties have equal access, transparency should help all the parties and only hurt those who do something deviant. It would become an equalizing factor I suppose.
• gambler 8y ago
  >in what ways could this information be used maliciously? Depends on who can get access to it and how. If there are organizations that get privileged access to such API it will give them knowledge that is easily translatable into political power. For example, if you know whom your political opponent targets with ads, but they don't know the same about you, it wold give you a tremendous edge in a campaign. Also, it depends on how good this info is protected against data-mining for undermining someone's privacy. From the article: "The number of impressions that an ad received within specific geographic and demographic criteria (e.g. within a political district, in a certain age range), broken down by paid vs. organic reach." I can see this being used to undermine someone's campaign by showing their ads are reaching "bad" audience. Eventually someone will figure out a way to make bots to "watch" ads and skew these numbers.
• rndgermandude 8y ago
  If you think the opposition will have a field day finding some old ads, then maybe you shouldn't have published those old ads in the first place?