The digital wizards behind Obama's tech-heavy re-election strategy (Facebook Data Mining)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/17/obama-campaign-digital-team ^ | Friday 17 February | Ed Pilkington in New York

[VU4G10]

The names behind a crack team of some of America's top data wonks building a digital campaign from bottom up

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What Facebook is really doing...

[End Times Sentinel]

Folks, JimRob is too nice to put it this way, but if you use FR, and you're not a donor, you're riding in the wagon that other folks are pulling. That's not a Conservative value at all.

We're not talking about a major donation here, $5 a month. How much time do you spend on FR? Isn't that the best deal you've ever run across?

C'mon now, git 'er done, if some ham-n-egger like me can do this (and more) you can too. Donate!

[TEXOKIE]

Here is another story from Slate on Obama’s data mining efforts:

Link to the Project “Narwhal” article:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/victory_lab/2012/02/project_narwhal_how_a_top_secret_obama_campaign_program_could_change_the_2012_race_.single.html

[ruschpa]

I hope “our side” has a team comparable to this one... if not, it looks like they have an advantage.

[CitizenM]

bump

[AtlasStalled]

I can’t avoid seeing Obama re-election ads on every other web page I visit. It seems the Republicans could still get out a message against Obama through a national ad campaign over the internet even if the nominee is not yet chosen.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[BOBWADE]

Okay, I did it. Now if everyone else can pony up even the smallest amount. Every bit helps.

[End Times Sentinel]

Way to go, Bob! It wasn’t hard at all, was it? I swear, often, the toughest part is just breaking down and pulling out your wallet.

[longtermmemmory]

I doubt it.

Remember the RNC used a DEMOCRAT donor co to run the tech of the RNC convention. (they had ongoing tech fiascos)

THEN mccain’s website was a pathetic java joke.

[Kenny Bunk]

Data mining is only the beginning.

What the Dems do is use data to create virtual voter lists by creating virtual relatives for those whose names they do have.

The dead? Well hell, they vote and they can have virtual relatives, too. The techniques were first tried out in earnest in the Sanchez Scam that unseated B-1 Bob Dornan. It's only gotten better since.... and the cyber-scam teams can now go national.

[TiaS]

Is anyone really looking at the ethical issues involved when all the high-tech wizards are mining information for a presidential re-election campaign?

On, October 12, 2011, President Obama appointed, Glen F. Post, III, CEO, of CenturyLink, to serve on his National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).

Previous to that, in August of 2011, Chairman Julius Genachowski, of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), designated Post as chair of Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC).

[trebb]

You shamed me into it - just anted $25.00.

Thanks for the constant gentle reminders - I start thinking to save it for candidates, etc., but without FR, I'd be lost.

Any other balkers out there?

[End Times Sentinel]

I start thinking to save it for candidates, etc., but without FR, I'd be lost.

Way to go, trebb! I know, it's tough to spread what we have around, but you're right I wouldn't be informed enough to know who to give to.