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Today in election security insanity:
Florida: Russian military intelligence spearfished a voter roll vendor and were in position to alter registrations. nytimes.com/2019/04/26/us/…
New York: We just posted the voter rolls to the web. nytimes.com/2019/04/26/nyr…
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Florida: Russian military intelligence spearfished a voter roll vendor and were in position to alter registrations. nytimes.com/2019/04/26/us/…
New York: We just posted the voter rolls to the web. nytimes.com/2019/04/26/nyr…
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Voter rolls are public information but we need to apply serious protective red-tape on obtaining them and then aggressively regulate their exclusive use for political purposes by registered candidates only. Data brokers love it when states release our voter registry into the wild
So whether it’s hostile adversaries or greedy scummy databrokers, putting voter rolls online is a really bad idea. I hate it so much.
I warned the NY State Assembly committee about this when they invited me to testify. Apparently, they did not heed it. That’s so frustrating.
So now anyone can build a Cambridge Analytica for New York State. Download the rolls. Buy data from Axciom, Experian and others. Match it up. Scrape social media. Match it up. Rinse, repeat. Export pre-targeted lists. Upload to Facebook Custom Audiences to microtarget w/o consent
Without real data rights and muscular enforcement that includes rights on political profiling, our electorates are targets for abuse through dark data practices. We’re naked and afraid. Lawmakers don’t get it. They prefer to use our recombined data unencumbered to stay in power.
It’s unlawful to create political profiles in the UK and Europe using personal data without explicit consent and access rights. This was the real Cambridge Analytica scandal that everyone missed. It’s the actual data rights debate that the USA needs to have. Yesterday. 
Some are angry with me that I “conflated” voter roll hacking with downloading rolls and that I am “alarmist” but these are not insults to me. These issues are related. Letting adversaries download voters rolls helps them target districts to hack. It also enables commercial abuse.
Use of voter rolls is restricted in 30 states. Public does not mean unrestricted in all 50 states. This voter analytics vendor has a list of state laws. If Attorneys General enforced their laws there would plenty of lawsuits against data brokers for abuse. voterlabs.com/voter-and-cons…
