Where's the difference in this and wire-tapping

[Dawg]

gathering information on this many Americans doesn't pass the smell test=>:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...aign_program_could_change_the_2012_race_.html

:argue:

 

[Cerulean Mutt]

The data's already available to all political campaigns, or don't you get those obnoxious mailers?

All this is is a new way to utilize that data to target specific groups with specific messages. It'd be kind of pointless to send possum recipes to the whole country when only a few folks in North Carolina would be interested, eh?

 

[Dawg]

The data's already available to all political campaigns, or don't you get those obnoxious mailers?

All this is is a new way to utilize that data to target specific groups with specific messages. It'd be kind of pointless to send possum recipes to the whole country when only a few folks in North Carolina would be interested, eh?

NO, I do not get those mailers, don't want the mailers and wouldn't open the mailers if they somehow got through, there is where this is same as wire-tapping.....................

there may come a day you would give your most prized possession for a possum recipe..........don't think when your stomach is rubbing your back-bone (wait, doubt that possible) you will beg for anything to eat..........(unless you've ate possum, how do you know it doesn't taste like lobster)

 

[kgswiger]

The data's already available to all political campaigns, or don't you get those obnoxious mailers?

All this is is a new way to utilize that data to target specific groups with specific messages. It'd be kind of pointless to send possum recipes to the whole country when only a few folks in North Carolina would be interested, eh?

And Beverly Hills.

 

[Cerulean Mutt]

How can it be the same as wire tapping when all the Obama's campaign is doing is utilizing new data base management on information that they already have on their donors, voluteers, etc? Quick answer: It's not. You're just grasping at straws for something to whine about. Knock yourself out.

Regarding possum, all I know is that there's gotta be a reason that an animals defense mechanism is to play dead when approached by potential predators. Enjoy your possum - I'll pass.

 

[kgswiger]

gathering information on this many Americans doesn't pass the smell test=>:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...aign_program_could_change_the_2012_race_.html

:argue:

Wire-tapping is listening in on conversations, and this is combining already existing data from different databases. I'm shocked campaigns haven't been doing this already. I just assumed DNC and GOP Presidential campaigns, at least, had been doing this since 2004.

 

[kgswiger]

Regarding possum, all I know is that there's gotta be a reason that an animals defense mechanism is to play dead when approached by potential predators. Enjoy your possum - I'll pass.

Because a lot of the predators don't eat carrion. That, plus the fact that possums aren't really built for speed, makes it a workable, if imperfect, defense mechanism.

 

[Dawg]

seems they are Tricked into giving up the information thur time..............et al wire-tapping

Possum taste about the same as chicken, had any chicken lately?

 

[Dawg]

well, only those effected evidently open the mailers.so I'm safe.

 

[Craig]

gathering information on this many Americans doesn't pass the smell test=>:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...aign_program_could_change_the_2012_race_.html

:argue:

Aggregation of extant data versus secret listening. Very easy to explain the difference, as they are barely related, if at all. Data aggregation relies on available information freely given; wiretapping relies on court orders to listen to personal discussions.

It has been shown that we should have no expectation of privacy in public...and the internet is pretty public. People are happy to share these details...and marketers of all stripes, political included, take advantage of the efficiencies of highly targeted consumers.

 

[Dawg]

Go away $30k "under the table" and no Income taxes paid on the income...........admitted tax cheating isn't cool.......hope "o' has Holder on this........