Freebie Day! RNC Genius Consultant Opens Up 198 Million Voters' Data To Everyone
Everything is fine. Never mind that a doofus data firm connected to the Republican party uploaded detailed information on nearly 200 million voters to an Amazon cloud account with no password protection.
Gizmodo reports the sad story of an almost one-terrabyte upload of detailed voter data, and not just the basics, either.
The data leak contains a wealth of personal information on roughly 61 percent of the US population. Along with home addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers, the records include advanced sentiment analyses used by political groups to predict where individual voters fall on hot-button issues such as gun ownership, stem cell research, and the right to abortion, as well as suspected religious affiliation and ethnicity. The data was amassed from a variety of sources—from the banned subreddit r/fatpeoplehate to American Crossroads, the super PAC co-founded by former White House strategist Karl Rove.
Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm that identifies audiences for political ads, confirmed ownership of the data to Gizmodo on Friday.
Yep, all that data fed to Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and other social networks gets scraped and added to your profile so the RNC can microtarget you with ads and the Russians can send you some fake news.
Here are some more nuggets they put out there for anyone to find.
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/freebie-day-rnc-genius-consultant-opens
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want to know how your neighbors likely vote? how your cousins' neighbors likely vote? thanks to some excellent decisions by Deep Roots, now you can -- it's a feature anyone can use! 
