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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 07:51 PM Jul 2019

Scoop: Steve Bannon used cell-phone location data for people who had been inside Roman Catholic chur

Scoop: Steve Bannon 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.




Reminder ; Bannon was serving on the board of Cambridge Analytica in 2016 before serving on the Trump campaign. Mike Flynn was an advisor to C/Analytica. Kusher & Don Jr ran Parscale's fake news/microtargeting op. Manafort gave Ru internal polling (targeting data)




Catholics in Iowa went to church. Steve Bannon tracked their phones.

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 phone’s ever been in a Catholic church, it’s 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 who’s 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/
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Scoop: Steve Bannon used cell-phone location data for people who had been inside Roman Catholic chur (Original Post) MelissaB Jul 2019 OP
The article is well worth the click, btw. MelissaB Jul 2019 #1
I swear, every time I leave the house I get unsolicited calls on my Baitball Blogger Jul 2019 #2
A bit predictable, are we? NBachers Jul 2019 #3
I get calls from unknown or unfamiliar numbers all the time, Volaris Jul 2019 #11
I don't answer them either. Baitball Blogger Jul 2019 #12
Why does he assume Catholics are voting Republican? FakeNoose Jul 2019 #4
That's what shocked me. Haggis for Breakfast Jul 2019 #5
It's the odds. More are voting on the abortion issue than not. n/t Liberal In Texas Jul 2019 #9
Cambridge Analytica is the Mercers zentrum Jul 2019 #6
Greenwald and Snowden were unavailable for comment... Blue_Tires Jul 2019 #7
This is pretty frightening that they're able to collect and sell where I've been because of where my Liberal In Texas Jul 2019 #8
Not just target "advertising"... backtoblue Jul 2019 #10
Excommunicate this slavering nazi scumbag, Pope F. Mc Mike Jul 2019 #13

Baitball Blogger

(46,576 posts)
2. I swear, every time I leave the house I get unsolicited calls on my
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 08:29 PM
Jul 2019

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)
3. A bit predictable, are we?
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 10:02 PM
Jul 2019

Our habits and schedules make fertile ground for targeting. I'm as guilty as any, if not more so.

Volaris

(10,260 posts)
11. I get calls from unknown or unfamiliar numbers all the time,
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 01:17 AM
Jul 2019

And I NEVER answer them. They can leave a message if they really want me to call them back.

Baitball Blogger

(46,576 posts)
12. I don't answer them either.
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 08:55 AM
Jul 2019

My cellphone calls are rare at home. They spike when I leave on an errand.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
5. That's what shocked me.
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 10:20 PM
Jul 2019

He's targeting Catholics ?!? Are you kidding me ? Right now there are Southern Baptists whose heads are about to explode !

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
6. Cambridge Analytica is the Mercers
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 10:45 PM
Jul 2019

Never forget that.

Far more lethal for our democracy than the Russians.

Liberal In Texas

(13,455 posts)
8. This is pretty frightening that they're able to collect and sell where I've been because of where my
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 11:55 PM
Jul 2019

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.


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