Very interesting that whoever posts the link first gets to frame the narrative of the news story. Even more interesting are new accounts/users on Hacker News that just post political posts steering the conversation in one direction.
Alternate theory: hacker news has developed a culture where people actually know the real person behind the usernames, (think of patio or sama) so users that are afraid of being associated with wiki leaks create new accounts to post it.
TL;DR: "Head of an advertising company recommends organisation doing advertising use techniques common in advertising"? As much as I dislike this stuff, it seems kind of "obvious" that they are at least try to do it (on both sides).
Yeah right, nothing to see here. Just a random CEO barely literate on data aggregation and a mere 1.5$Billion budget talking about profiling individual voters. Nothing can possibly go wrong.
I'm not saying that this is good or that nothing could go wrong. I'm just saying that I'm not surprised at all that stuff like this gets proposed. I expect both campaigns talked to marketing people, and I expect some of those marketing people just went with what they know, multiplied by the resources of a presidential campaign.
Now information on how far they went and got with it, if there were at least some moral objections, and on the legalities of the thing, that would be interesting.
>Key is the development of a single record for a voter that aggregates all that is known about them. In 2016 smart phones will be used to identify,meet, and update profiles on the voter.
Matching social media profiles and online activity to their local voter db:
>Quite a bit of software is to be developed to match digital identities with the actual voter file with high confidence. The key unit of the campaign is a "voter", and each and every record is viewable and updatable by volunteers in search of more accurate information.
Worst case scenario, use ghost recording:
>In the case where we can't identify the specific human, we can still have a partial digital voter id, for a person or "probable-person" with attributes that we can identify and use to target. As they respond we can eventually match to a registered voter in the main file. This digital key is eventually matched to a real person.
Exactly, create a single record for all the voters so they can be targeted and influenced to vote for the Democratic nominee.
Does that not concern you? Imagine that God forbid they started controlling what information was seen by people, like trending news stories etc? Even worse if Twitter and Facebook were on it!
Is this how Correct The Record works? Curious