Did Personal Data Aid Obama Campaign?
The question proposed by Carol Platt Liebau in her article below is important? But even more important is the threat to the Republic of the United States. If a person or agency, be they left, right or independent minded, and/or the people behind or supporting a person can access and use data collected on U.S. citizens by government agencies to aid them their agenda -- be that agenda retaining their office, influencing others on a desired change, or attacking, controlling, disenfranchising, or punishing Americans whom they uncharacteristically see as their enemy or standing in the way of their agenda -- then the citizens of America have a very critical problem on its hands. For what is used by either a tyrant or alleged benevolent person to influence or to control a free people tramples on the both the Constitution and presents a clear and present danger to our Republic.
by Carol Platt Liebau, TownHall : The IRS has been credibly accused of targeting conservatives as a way to minimize their participation in the 2014 elections. But there is a mirror image to their suppression in the last cycle; the Obama campaign's utilization of Big Data to bring liberal partisans to the polls.
It was something that the press writing of admiringly both before and after the election, for example:
Time: How Obama's number-crunchers helped him win
Businessweek: Google's Eric Schmidt Invests in Obama's Big-Data Brains
Other outlets have confessed to some trepidation:
Gizmodo: How the Obama Campaign Uses Your Personal Information to Get Your Money and Your Vote
In the aftermath of the kerfuffle about metadata being used for national security purposes, it's worth asking whether (and what kind of) personal information somehow found its way into the hands of political people for the President's political benefit -- because there is significant benefit to any political campaign that can "mine" such data. Note that the companies involved in the NSA data-collection collection matter were huge Obama supporters.
Although some kinds of metadata collection is necessary for national security purposes, is there any assurance that personal information collected by these companies (and others) didn't find flow to the Obama campaign, either known or unbeknownst to the company's leaders? Those who are outraged by personal information (or even metadata) being collected and used for national security without people's consent should be even angrier if intrusions occurred -- not for a public benefit -- but for the President's partisan gain.
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by Carol Platt Liebau, TownHall : The IRS has been credibly accused of targeting conservatives as a way to minimize their participation in the 2014 elections. But there is a mirror image to their suppression in the last cycle; the Obama campaign's utilization of Big Data to bring liberal partisans to the polls.
It was something that the press writing of admiringly both before and after the election, for example:
Time: How Obama's number-crunchers helped him win
Businessweek: Google's Eric Schmidt Invests in Obama's Big-Data Brains
Other outlets have confessed to some trepidation:
Gizmodo: How the Obama Campaign Uses Your Personal Information to Get Your Money and Your Vote
In the aftermath of the kerfuffle about metadata being used for national security purposes, it's worth asking whether (and what kind of) personal information somehow found its way into the hands of political people for the President's political benefit -- because there is significant benefit to any political campaign that can "mine" such data. Note that the companies involved in the NSA data-collection collection matter were huge Obama supporters.
Although some kinds of metadata collection is necessary for national security purposes, is there any assurance that personal information collected by these companies (and others) didn't find flow to the Obama campaign, either known or unbeknownst to the company's leaders? Those who are outraged by personal information (or even metadata) being collected and used for national security without people's consent should be even angrier if intrusions occurred -- not for a public benefit -- but for the President's partisan gain.
Tags: metadata, data mining, government agencies, NSA, data-collection, IRS, Google, Obama Campaign, threat to the Republic, clear and present danger To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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Yes. But with the fraud it took both to stand up to our strength.
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