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Campaigns have been using cell-phone location data for years. Did Bannon take it too far?
Steve Bannon and the conservative group CatholicVote used cell-phone location data for people who had been inside Roman Catholic churches in Dubuque, Iowa, in 2018 to target them with get-out-the-vote ads, ThinkProgress has learned.
Bannon, a former senior White House aide, made the claim in a deleted scene from the new documentary about him, The Brink. This scene has not been previously published.
If your phones ever been in a Catholic church, its amazing, they got this data, Bannon told director Alison Klayman as they sat in his Washington, D.C., home on the eve of the 2018 midterm elections.
Literally, they can tell whos been in a Catholic church and how frequently, Bannon added. And they got it triaged.
More: https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-steve-bannon-geofencing-data-collection-catholic-church-4aaeacd5c182/
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)cell phone. I wonder if I'm getting GPS pinged. Like today, got two on my way to the Starbucks, then a Nursery and then a hardware store. My devil's triangle.
NBachers
(17,007 posts)Our habits and schedules make fertile ground for targeting. I'm as guilty as any, if not more so.
Volaris
(10,260 posts)And I NEVER answer them. They can leave a message if they really want me to call them back.
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)My cellphone calls are rare at home. They spike when I leave on an errand.
FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)There's his first mistake.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)He's targeting Catholics ?!? Are you kidding me ? Right now there are Southern Baptists whose heads are about to explode !
Liberal In Texas
(13,455 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Never forget that.
Far more lethal for our democracy than the Russians.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,455 posts)phone has been. This should be so illegal as to make me sick.
It's the surveillance society, and it isn't the government that we all feared, it's the big corporations. And the fascists.
backtoblue
(11,323 posts)Isn't this a kind of stalking?