4 thoughts on “NSA-Spying-Opponent Ted Cruz Spies on his Followers”
In essence if you have a family member, friend or colleague, who is supporting Ted Cruz, the campaign now has access to your personal information for campaign targeting.
Protecting the privacy of law-abiding citizens from the government is a pillar of Ted Cruz’s Republican presidential candidacy, but his campaign is testing the limits of siphoning personal data from supporters.
His “Cruz Crew” mobile app is designed to gather detailed information from its users’ phones — tracking their physical movements and mining the names and contact information for friends who might want nothing to do with his campaign.
[Ben] Carson's app separately asks users to… voluntarily supply their… gender — including options for "male," ''female" and "other."
Aaaaand Carson's out of the GOP primary.
And the piece keeps talking about how the app helped with Iowa, but says jack and shit about New Hampshire. In fact a quoted Cruz field rep refers to the NH primary in the future tense (just look for one of the two instances of "Hampshire" in the piece). Someone sat on this for a while.
Soooo… just like every political campaign and/or smart phone app ever?
And not a bit less evil!
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oppo news dumpAP article|:Aaaaand Carson's out of the GOP primary.
And the piece keeps talking about how the app helped with Iowa, but says jack and shit about New Hampshire. In fact a quoted Cruz field rep refers to the NH primary in the future tense (just look for one of the two instances of "Hampshire" in the piece). Someone sat on this for a while.