I have a hard time believing that there was but one" accidental" leak. Gobs of information stored in one place is begging to be hacked or leaked. But with Republicans, it will be no harm no foul coz both dems and repubs were in the data base. This is a very big deal.
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Under the AHCA, we’d probably get billed for the scalpel.
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sounds like time for a class action lawsuit, who’s in?
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I don’t think this was an accidental breach.
I think this was to provide cover for the theft of much of this data bey Russian agents.
Now instead of there being collusion with the Russians, there is plausible deniability that this was stolen by the Russians by this accidental leak.
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They only hire the best people.
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Vast amounts of personal data have been legally collected on about 80% of US households for decades. The internet and social media have greatly expanded the data available. And targeting’s been part of the political playbook since Reagan.
After the 2020 census, all that data will be used to gerrymander districts.
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Astute observation. The breast-beaters among us say we just didn’t appeal enough to the economic concerns of the Trump voters. It’s pretty clear that the Trump voters weren’t concerned economically, just racially, ethnically, and religiously bigoted.
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Last year I got a notice from a credit card company that there had been a data breach, exposing the personal information of millions of cardholders. Their compensatory action was to allow each cardholder to enroll in a credit monitoring program for free for 2 years.
The RNC and/or the contractor who exposed the personal data should be required to do no less.
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Kind of a quandary for the NRA. Is it OK for R Party to collect personal information on gun owners, and sell it to Wal-Mart, Outdoor World, me, you, whoever? Do they condemn the R Party for leaking all that gun owner data to anyone who knows where it is? We know they sure don’t want the government to have this data. But, what if the NRA get what they seem to want and the government and the R Party become one and same thing? Is it OK for the R State to have this data?
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Data Firm Hired By RNC “Accidentally” Leaked Millions Of Voters’ Personal Info
Slight correction to the headline…you’re welcome…
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So if we find our information within this database that was accessible, then could an American sue based on PII disclosure?
If not then the question I would ask the court is, why can an american not sue a company for the unauthorized disclosure of PII, when that disclosure leaves them vulnerable to a variety of crimes, the least of which is identity theft.
Any bets as to whether this is a big or little story?
Little. The House Oversight Committee will do nothing to investigate one of their own.
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Depends on how the Dems can be implicated in any way…Oh! wait ------no implications needed.
It’s ok if they’re our jackbooted thugs.
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Don’t worry. Eventually he’ll pass out and the autonomic nervous system will take over and he’ll start breathing again and so long as he’s not underwater (or in a vacuum), everything will be fine.
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Exactly. Zero chance it wasn’t hoovered up by the Russians. And not much of a chance this wasn’t deliberate considering the FBI warned them of Russian hacking efforts in July.
I don’t suppose anyone has bothered to check the DNS or firewall logs to see who accessed this information–which appears to be on virtually ever registered voter in America (we have about 200 million RV’s as of last October)–while it was out there for the taking.
No? Yeah, I thought not.
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This is Amazon. I have no idea what level of logging they have, but at the very least they have billing for bandwidth, so someone is going to know how many times the db has been downloaded.
Follow up story----------
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