So, who remembers a story in 2017, whereby Republican data protection firms (Deep Root Analytics and two other Republican contractors) left nearly data for nearly 200 million voters unprotected online? I do...
and it was quickly protected ...SO THEY SAY! But honestly, who believes that while doing a security check it was suddenly exposed? W T F?…
This disclosure dwarfs previous breaches of electoral data in Mexico (also discovered by Vickery) and the Philippines by well over 100 million more affected individuals, exposing the personal information of over sixty-one percent of the entire US population.
The data exposure provides insight into the inner workings of the Republican National Committee’s $100 million data operation for the 2016 presidential election, an undertaking of monumental scope and painstaking detail launched in the wake of Mitt Romney’s loss in 2012. Deep Root Analytics, TargetPoint, and Data Trust—all Republican data firms—were among the RNC-hired outfits working as the core of the Trump campaign’s 2016 general election data team, relied upon in the GOP effort to influence potential voters and accurately predict their behavior. The RNC data repository would ultimately acquire roughly 9.5 billion data points regarding three out of every five Americans, scoring 198 million potential US voters on their likely political preferences using advanced algorithmic modeling across forty-eight different categories.
Spreadsheets containing this accumulated data—last updated around the January 2017 presidential inauguration—constitute a treasure trove of political data and modeled preferences used by the Trump campaign. This data was also exposed in the misconfigured database and had been for an unknown period of time.
Just as Cambridge Analytica pretended to disband, and became Emerdata, Deep Root Analytics has suddenly appeared again as a shady as hell new company, Howler Insights
Sara Fagen, Deep Root’s CEO chief executive admitted Howler Insights is “related” to Deep Root, which uses data to help Republican political campaigns and organizations target their digital and television messaging.
She offered few details about Howler’s work or its relationship with the RNC. “I formed it b/c it’s a new product offering that I plan to keep separate from our traditional TV analytics work,” she wrote.
Deep Roots has a data base. I get they aren’t using your data at all though to make these charts based on Deep Root's household database...
The RNC said they would sever ties with Deep Root Analytics, and according to finance report, did, until...late last year. The RNC made a very large payment to a brand new company…
Last fall the Republican National Committee paid $900,000 for “data services” to a Delaware-registered limited liability corporation that had existed for only three weeks.
The company receiving the money has no online presence and has not been used by other campaigns or committees. But there is one clue about the company, Howler Insights LLC, in paperwork the RNC filed with the Federal Election Commission. Howler’s Arlington, Virginia, address and suite number are the same as a conservative data firm whose work for the RNC was placed on hold nearly three years ago after a massive data breach.
Chris Vickery is the data breach researcher who first saw the data breach at Deep Root, said:
There’s no end to the amount of scams and fraud and harassment and stalking with that kind of concentrated collection of data — both publicly available and private, non-publicly available data
Here is the RNC statement to ProPublica’s story:
After ProPublica asked Mike Reed, an RNC spokesman, about Howler, Deep Root and the change in Walters’ compensation arrangement, he provided a statement.
“It is obvious that ProPublica has a severe bias against conservatives and President Trump and zero interest in reporting on this fairly,” he said. “So we aren’t going to waste any more breath explaining these innocuous issues to you.”
Reed told ProPublica last week that in addition to Walters, the organization’s budget is approved by two committees and voted on by its 168 members.
This is all related to the 2016 scam perpetrated by tRUMP, Parscale, Kushner, Bannon, Kellyanne, and a whole host of cheaters, operatives and liars. I have 63 pages on a single file that co-relate to the data scam.
Did they also leave it available to Russia and others during the campaign? How could people trust the GOP after such a huge data breach?
Why was sensitive voter data sent from each state’s Secretary of State (15 refused) to Kris Kobach, the vote suppressor? I repeat, sent to HIM in Kansas... not sent to Washington. Where is that data now that the failed commission on voter fraud of Kobach’s has ended? Why the hell is any American trusting the GOP or Oligarchs like the Mercers or tRUMP or Bossie.... who targeted voters like they were robots, not humans?
Facebook/Google/Youtube/Mercers/Bannon/Kushner/Bossie/Cambridge Analytica/Russia “research Centr” trolls and other data firms all worked to TARGET ads and psych-op using harvested data from Facebook AS WELL as voter info. Root Analytica AND Facebook AND Emerdata AND Parscale’s firm AND Kushner have that target voter info and so does Kobach, the vote suppressor. What voter data did Manafort give to Ukraine? Does Russia have it as well? Why not. The GOP was giving all your information away online anyway…
Let me know if you want the other 62 pages…
The GOP cannot win unless it cheats. And now they have all of the targeting data stolen or bought from their cheating 2016 campaign! Be sure to remember Broidy, a felon, and Cohen, a felon in prison, were BOTH RNC FINANCIAL CHAIRMEN.
Oh and former Cambridge Analytica emloyees also work for Data Propria… Matt Oczkowski, who served as head of product at Cambridge Analytica before it went bankrupt and shut down in 2018, is helping oversee the Trump campaign’s data program:
The AP confirmed that at least four former Cambridge Analytica employees are affiliated with Data Propria, a new company specializing in voter and consumer targeting work similar to Cambridge Analytica’s efforts before its collapse. The company’s former head of product, Matt Oczkowski, leads the new firm, which also includes Cambridge Analytica’s former chief data scientist.
Oczkowski denied a link to the Trump campaign, but acknowledged that his new firm has agreed to do 2018 campaign work for the Republican National Committee. Oczkowski led the Cambridge Analytica data team which worked on Trump’s successful 2016 campaign.
The AP learned of Data Propria’s role in Trump’s re-election effort as a result of conversations held with political contacts and prospective clients in recent weeks by Oczkowski. In one such conversation, which took place in a public place and was overheard by two AP reporters, Oczkowski said he and Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, were “doing the president’s work for 2020.”