Who Put This Huge Database of U.S. Voting Records Online? [View all]
Source: PC Magazine
Time to get out your deerstalker hat. Somewhere out there is a publicly available database with approximately 191 million voting records, with details like names, birthdates, addresses, phone numbers, and political party affiliation.
The problem? Nobody knows who owns the database, who set it up, how it got online, or why its information is public. According to CSO, which first reported on the story after being alerted to its existence by researcher Chris Vickery, it's likely that the information in the database came from the political data firm NationBuilder, but it's not necessarily the company's fault that the information is live. A customer possibly purchased this information and made it public, but it's unclear if they did so on purpose or by mistake.
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