But The Associated Press found the Cruz campaign's app -- downloaded to more than 61,000 devices so far -- goes furthest to glean personal data.
The Cruz app prompts supporters to register using their Facebook logins, giving the campaign access to personal information such as name, age range, gender, location and photograph, plus lists of friends and relatives. Those without a Facebook account must either provide an email address or phone number to use the app.
I wonder if he received divine unction to use that app.
The mind reading is not working. If it was, the campaign would have stopped sending me emails and calling me months ago.
Many cried when Romney and McCain lost using 20th Century technology and now they’ll wail that Cruz is “cheating” by using up-to-date techniques.
Details on nearly everybody? Must have one heck of a server!
This data collection has been used by us political types for many decades..long before computers. We would get a Reverse Telephone Directory and match it up with the printed list of voters. We would give each person a key sometimes the key was based on the name, sometimes on the address. We would develop codes for all the hot button issues, plus the non-issue interests, spors teams, children, clubs, church, etc.
We would paste it to pages of a loose leaf binder, typically a 4x6 binder we could fit in a suit jacket pocket.
As we went door-to-door we would enhance the codes in the book. We would enter the names of people new to the area not yet in the phone book that only came out once a year. We would get them registered to vote and keep track of whom we got registered.
US census said 12,000 lived in the quarter sq mi area I considered my-area. I had well over 95% of the families in the little black book. The average family in the book probably averaged 10 or more codes. How many Alinksy pickets they went to and which ones. How many anti-urban renewal meetings they went to, etc.
My biggest meeting had over 2,000 people protesting urban renewal. That’s over 10% of the population and over 20% of the adults, over 40% of adult citizens.
So the big difference is now the data is centralized. Before, the local volunteer controlled the data. Now the central computer controls the data and feeds it to the volunteer who did not collect it himself and has no idea how accurate it is.
Karl Roves database was extremely low quality, much worse quality than the anti-establishment database I built.
I haven’t worked with any of the databases this cycle. So I don’t know what their accuracy and relevance rate is. They can never be perfect. But some can be much better than others.
Fail.
Dang...!
He’ll be wanting supporters first born next...