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Sep 1, 2020, 6 tweets

Russia got our voter data which is what I assumed the whole time.

Love to see folks saying voter data is public and for sale by data brokers so there’s nothing to see here. It’s not like the #SSCIvol5 didn’t sound the warning bell on our lax approach to data privacy making us sitting ducks for abuse by adversaries. #TheGreatHack

Why did the Mercers company export our voter profiles to the UK? Even Manafort henchman Rick Gates was worried about our data ending up there. And he was sending it to a Russian intelligence agent over WhatsApp! #SSCIvol5 #TheGreatHack

Will UK ICO commissioner Elizabeth Denham offer a satisfactory answer to the outstanding questions about their forensic investigation of seized servers when she appears before @CommonsDCMS next month? The evidence that was not shared with #SSCIvol5? data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…

Loose threads are still dangling. The Parliamentary transcript above obliquely refers to this news item below from ages ago now. They delicately dance around it in a most British way I must say. #TheGreatHack

US Voter data is widely available on the open market. It is also being exchanged illicitly. Both can be true. Both can be evidence of our awful stance on data protection and privacy that ends up exploited as an attack surface to undermine our democracy from afar. #TheGreatHack

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