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If you're curious, here's a screencast of one popular canvasser-facing tool, VoteBuilder: https://youtu.be/2GJU5tIhYG8?t=1388 https://youtu.be/2GJU5tIhYG8?t=138

If you're curious, here's a screencast of one popular canvasser-facing tool, VoteBuilder: https://youtu.be/2GJU5tIhYG8?t=1388 https://youtu.be/2GJU5tIhYG8?t=1388 In addition to importing everyone's voting records, contacts/interactions with the party or campaigns, and the like, VoteBuilder also predicts a voter's likelihood to support different issues or races and chances of turning out: https://youtu.be/2GJU5tIhYG8?t=1428 https://youtu.be/2GJU5tIhYG8?t=1428 Did I mention that it has voters' cell phone numbers too? And a ton of other stuff. And good luck getting it removed, or even finding out who to contact to get it removed. (Longer intros: https://youtu.be/knCkUKUJU0k?t=533 https://youtu.be/knCkUKUJU0k?t=533, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGP_VAN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGP_VAN, https://support.nydems.org/support/solutions/articles/63000258348-what-is-van-votebuilder- https://support.nydems.org/support/solutions/articles/630002...)

everybodyknows 4y ago
Any clues how they get the cell numbers?
- troydavis 4y ago
  The same places that non-political telemarketers do. Many retailers sell customer info, as do credit bureaus/financial services organizations and telecom firms. Google “phone data appending” and you’ll find lots of data brokers. I run a free site at https://simpleoptout.com https://simpleoptout.com that makes it easier to opt-out of data sharing. Doing that is the first step, but suitably motivated buyers (which includes the national parties) will still find someone selling your data. One other step helps: when there’s no need for an entity to have your phone number, don’t provide it. If a phone number is required for no reason, provide a fake number at an area code that’s not in use. This can easily reduce the privacy “attack surface” by 50%. Every random e-commerce vendor does not need your phone number to fulfill your order.

everybodyknows 4y ago

Any clues how they get the cell numbers?

troydavis 4y ago
The same places that non-political telemarketers do. Many retailers sell customer info, as do credit bureaus/financial services organizations and telecom firms. Google “phone data appending” and you’ll find lots of data brokers. I run a free site at https://simpleoptout.com https://simpleoptout.com that makes it easier to opt-out of data sharing. Doing that is the first step, but suitably motivated buyers (which includes the national parties) will still find someone selling your data. One other step helps: when there’s no need for an entity to have your phone number, don’t provide it. If a phone number is required for no reason, provide a fake number at an area code that’s not in use. This can easily reduce the privacy “attack surface” by 50%. Every random e-commerce vendor does not need your phone number to fulfill your order.