Posted on 09/15/2020 10:34:17 AM PDT by bitt
New findings by The App Analyst reveal a privacy bug in Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's official campaign app.
According to The App Analyst, the bug allowed anyone to look up sensitive voter information on millions of Americans. The Vote Joe App is designed as an organization tool to help engage with voters. Users can sign up with an email and an address. Once the users complete this registration, they can use many of the app's features, including sending canned Joe Biden support texts and report information about their contacts - a practice called "relational organizing," where users sync their contacts or find a voter in the Vote Joe App voter database and report specific information about that contact or voter.
The app uploads and matches the user's contacts with voter data from Target Smart, a political marketing service that claims to have more than 191 million voter records. When a match is found, the app then display the voter's name, age and birthday, including which election they voted in.
"While the Vote Joe App claims they cannot know exactly who a user voted for as that's a secret, they did not clarify what these values represented, leaving the possibility the values could represent who they suspect the user voted for," notes the security researcher.
The researcher found the contact data enriches the database entry and is stored to help solicit their vote in the future. "An issue occurs when the contact in the phone does not correspond with the voter but the data continue to enrich the voter database entry. By adding fake contacts to the device a user is able to sync these with real voters," he adds.
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“Potential...”?? You can bet the RATS are working every cheat angle they can.....
Why do I doubt that there are 191 million voters? Aren't there any children and aliens and felons in this country of 330 million people? Of course some of the records might refer to the same person.
Disturbing at any rate that data collection is so thorough in this country; privacy is dead! Mad Maxine had said some time ago that they had unprecedented massive data records.
I stand fulfilled. :)
Good for you.
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