After data scandals, Australia faces an election under heavy profiling

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Reuters
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Sun, 2019-05-05 05:00

SYDNEY/SAN FRANCISCO: Australian political parties are using voter email addresses to find matching social media profiles then combining them with the country’s compulsory electoral roll data, illustrating how privacy scandals have done little to slow the march of data-driven campaigning.
While the use of data and public profiles from Facebook, Twitter and other social media for political campaigning has become widespread globally, Australia is one of the most open countries in the world to online information gathering by political operatives.

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