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I got a Liberal party email in my inbox this morning. Clicked 'modify preferences' and noticed some of the things they're tracking:
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This is actually super interesting. Consider screenshotting it all and send a tip to the Guardian. I'm sure the Libs aren't the only ones using these predictive analytics stuff though.
This is why political patties want your email and phone number -- so they can add you to a database and enrich it with data scraped from profiling platforms, data brokers, ethnicity predictors and other commercial data sources.
It's spooky and feels wrong.
Yeah, that was first thought actually. Thought I'd consult the DT hivemind first though ๐
Interesting article in Crikey about this today ;)
Oh awesome, thanks. I knew it was weird!