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am i correct in my understanding: in their attempt to intentionally leak voter PII to their canvassers they inadvertently leaked it to the whole internet? EDIT
by ptah 7y ago
am i correct in my understanding: in their attempt to intentionally leak voter PII to their canvassers they inadvertently leaked it to the whole internet?
EDIT: "Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Likud supporters to download the application in order to help draft more supporters and voters."
- michaelt 7y agoHas the power company "intentionally leaked" PII if they mail their customers bills, and by so doing give their customers' names and addresses to the USPS? Personally I would have said that is normal, legitimate processing; and any definition of "data leak" that included that would be so broad as to be meaningless. Of course, the leak of the full register by a negligently designed website is another matter...
- ptah 7y agoexcept addresses are effectively owned by the postal service. they are the primary users of it. the power company is merely using the postal service's addressing system
- einpoklum 7y agoActually, Netanyahu is _continuing_ to push the use of the "Elector" application to the Likud party activists - even after the publication of how it is effectively a leak of all voters' personal data. So the "inadvertently" part is now in question. Having said that - we need to differentiate between the intended use of the "Elector" app, which is individual record search, and the ability to obtain all records. The latter is due to a bug, and that's the leak. As for the former, I'm not sure exactly about its legality in the first place; perhaps others can comment on this.