Firm That Tracked Protesters Targeted Evangelicals During 2016 Election
▻https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9353qv/mobilewalla-tracked-protesters-targeted-evangelicals-during-2016-election
The CEO of data broker Mobilewalla, which worked with Republican SuperPACs, says it tracked Evangelicals’ cell phone locations for six months. A data broker that tracked Black Lives Matter protesters also tracked the locations of Evangelical Christians on election day 2016 using their cell phones and used that data to help push get-out-the-vote messaging, according to the company’s own CEO. Mobilewalla, a data broker headquartered in New York City, purchases and collects location and other (...)
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