{"id":7596,"date":"2018-11-07T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2018-11-07T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:03:43","slug":"taxpayer-facilities-and-political-data-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7596","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayer Facilities and Political Data Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/11\/uw_facility_political_event_registration102018.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I consent to receive recurring automated text messages from MobilizeAmerica and Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Message and data rates may apply. Text STOP to cancel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Should political events held at publicly financed facilities collect, use, aggregate and mine participant data?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve pondered this while observing Madison political events.  Participation often requires disclosure of some personal information, typically email and\/or phone numbers.  <\/p>\n<p>Political organizations may then use this information for many purposes.<\/p>\n<p>A few links to ponder: The <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=obama+2008+2012+facebook&#038;t=h_&#038;ia=web\">Obama 2008 \/ 2012 campaigns and Facebook<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=facebook+cambridge+analytica&#038;t=h_&#038;ia=web\">Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I consent to receive recurring automated text messages from MobilizeAmerica and Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Message and data rates may apply. Text STOP to cancel.&#8221; Should political events held at publicly financed facilities collect, use, aggregate and mine participant data? I&#8217;ve pondered this while observing Madison political events. Participation often requires disclosure of some personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7597,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}