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In much of the US, voter registrations are considered public record by state law. For example: https://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=29A.08.710 https://

• benja123 7y ago
  That's pretty bad IMO. What information is available? In this case the information included first name, last name, ID number, phone number, address and parents names
  • bskap 7y ago
    > name, address, political jurisdiction, gender, date of birth, voting record, date of registration, and registration number Voting record in this case means which elections you voted in, not who you voted for. It is explicitly illegal to use these records to send advertisements, but who knows how well that works
  • dvirsky 7y ago
    These are most of the details that you get asked on the phone when you are asked to verify yourself in a lot of contexts (not banking, but say getting medical records from your health provided over the phone, etc).
• beagle3 7y ago
  The information is not public record in Israel. Apparently, the parties voted themselves the right to that data when the election cycle starts (6 months or so before the actual elections, or something like that), under the promise that "they will keep it safe, and delete it afterwards, and only use it themselves". Needless to say, it has leaked out to marketers/private-investigators/bittorrent in basically every election cycle so far.