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Elon Musk Spends Millions Tricking People Into Giving Up Personal Data
New Republic ^ | 09/10/2026

Posted on 09/10/2026 6:41:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Elon Musk’s super PAC is stealing voters’ personal information—again.

The billionaire technocrat’s America PAC has launched an aggressive advertising campaign directing them to Vote Safe, a website claiming to provide users with information they need to “vote with confidence.” But all the while, the site is secretly collecting some information of its own, Judd Legum reported Tuesday on his substack Popular Information.

Any visitors to the site will unwittingly hand over their full name, birthday, home address, email address, cellphone number, IP address, browser, location, voter registration status, and district, not to mention every link they click on and every page they look at.

The website previously had a privacy policy barring America PAC from sharing this information with advertisers, political organizations, or third parties, but it removed that language last month. Now America PAC is permitted to sell or share your personal information with “our business partners.” That personal information includes not only where you are registered to vote but also the “inferences” the data makes about you.

The business partners include Facebook, Google, X, an advertising firm called the Trade Desk , a tracking company named Increment Data , and Iterable , an email and text-massage marketing company, among others.

In the last week, America PAC has spent more than $180,000 promoting Vote Safe , Legum reported. Musk has pledged to spend more than $100 million on the midterms.

This isn’t the first time Musk’s America PAC has pulled this grift. Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the former billionaire bureaucrat poured $800,000 into digital advertisements to target voters in key battleground states. In certain states, users reported that the supposed voter registration website collected their information without ever referring them to register to vote.

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1 posted on 09/10/2026 6:41:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

And jorge soreass’ name is never mentioned or derided for trying to advance sociocommie take over. 🖕 new republic!


2 posted on 09/10/2026 7:11:51 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: rktman

I didn’t see Soros’ name in the Marlins-Mets box score either.


3 posted on 09/10/2026 7:20:03 AM PDT by Miami Rebel (RE)
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To: SeekAndFind

What! Companies are collecting our online data? Really? Did anybody else know about this?


4 posted on 09/10/2026 8:16:13 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: SeekAndFind

Xitter has made it company policy to collect and sell users’ data by requiring cell phone use just to login to the site. You can no longer use your PC — you must use a phone, and then Xitter has all your data to sell.


5 posted on 09/10/2026 8:18:06 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess donations to Act Blue are safe and anonymous.

/s


6 posted on 09/10/2026 8:23:39 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: SeekAndFind

https://www.fec.gov/press/resources-journalists/political-action-committees-pacs/

The info is already public.

Sheesh.


7 posted on 09/10/2026 8:23:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, )
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To: mewzilla

Heels Up’s collected quite a bit, didn’t they...

https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/kamala-harris/contributors?cycle=2024&id=N00036915&src=b&type=f


8 posted on 09/10/2026 8:25:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, )
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To: SeekAndFind

Musk is the guy behind Grok AI. If he really wanted your personal info, do you think he would have to “trick” you out of it?


9 posted on 09/10/2026 8:29:59 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: SeekAndFind

“”””””Any visitors to the site will unwittingly hand over their full name, birthday, home address, email address, cellphone number, IP address, browser, location, voter registration status, and district””””””

How does it collect all that?


10 posted on 09/10/2026 8:31:03 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: Miami Rebel

😂😂😂, A swing and a miss!


11 posted on 09/10/2026 8:31:58 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: SeekAndFind

The site adds a spy device to the user’s browser innocently named a “cookie.” /s


12 posted on 09/10/2026 8:37:42 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: rktman

Musk is “collecting” the information that the user types in on their phone or computer. I think most users realize when they fill out an online form that someone is “collecting” the information. And somehow if Facebook and Google collect this information , and they do 20 times a day for every human on earth, it is perfectly fine, but if musk does it , it is evil.


13 posted on 09/10/2026 8:40:31 AM PDT by brookwood (First the left said it was OK to steal. Next they said it was OK to kill and autis)
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To: brookwood

What? They’re collecting our info? 😂👍


14 posted on 09/10/2026 8:44:00 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: SeekAndFind

This site is leftwing full of garbage. Just look at that nasty headline. They will lie, misinform the simple minded because I’m afraid they can. Shun all leftwing medias, sites and such. Think for yourself don’t let them lead you and our country over a cliff. They hate you just as much as they hate the rest of us citizens.


15 posted on 09/10/2026 8:45:22 AM PDT by alaskamomma
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To: circlecity

This is the first I have heard this. Wait just got a popup ad on hearing aids.


16 posted on 09/10/2026 8:51:50 AM PDT by pas
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To: SeekAndFind

I trust Elon more than most people with my info


17 posted on 09/10/2026 9:37:32 AM PDT by patriotpaul1776
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To: mewzilla

Imagine the whining if these idiots were around when we had, gasp, Phone Books!


18 posted on 09/10/2026 9:47:42 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Free Republic is now all Trump hatred all the time from a handful of "Me, Me, Me" babies. )
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