Warren wing wants Clinton to crack down on Apple, Google and Amazon
politico.comAn email from Google's chairman to Clinton Campaign (I selected the most technical parts, which I believe will be most interesting to HN crowd, link to full email at the bottom):
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Here are some comments and observations based on what we saw in the 2012 campaign. If we get started soon, we will be in a very strong position to execute well for 2016.
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Key is the development of a single record for a voter that aggregates all that is known about them.
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For each voter, a score is computed ranking probability of the right vote. Analytics can model demographics, social factors and many other attributes of the needed voters. Modeling will tell us what who we need to turn out and why, and studies of effectiveness will let us know what approaches work well. Machine intelligence across the data should identify the most important factors for turnout, and preference.
It should be possible to link the voter records in Van with upcoming databases from companies like Comcast and others for media measurement purposes.
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Quite a bit of software is to be developed to match digital identities with the actual voter file with high confidence. The key unit of the campaign is a "voter", and each and every record is viewable and updatable by volunteers in search of more accurate information.
In the case where we can't identify the specific human, we can still have a partial digital voter id, for a person or "probable-person" with attributes that we can identify and use to target. As they respond we can eventually match to a registered voter in the main file. This digital key is eventually matched to a real person.
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https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262#efmAC9AE0...
That's a nice find. It's worth skimming the full email for context. He's laying out the draft organizational plain for a modern campaign and it's about what you'd expect. The only interesting part is that it's actually public and, to me, how non-conspiratorial these emails have been. Clearly some people take a different view.
Can't read the email itself, but these excerpts almost seem to imply that they'd be using Google's data in order to construct this? Is this an incorrect read? Or is he just outlining how to build such a system in the abstract?
No - in the e-mail itself, he mentions that there's a mobile app field volunteers could use to update information on the voter in real-time, as they go door-to-door and canvas. Presumably it also hooks into poll databases, telephone surveys, previous voter rolls, and other data sources.
The latter. He mentions buying data from the standard marketing sources and hosting systems on AWS.
But.. Clinton is in cahoots with Google. We've all seen the articles documenting Eric Schmidt's relationship with the Clinton Campaign. This is absolute insanity.
...and that's when you [metaphorical you, not you personally] learn that political parties are made of individuals, and the ally of your ally is not necessarily your friend.
Eric isn't "Google". He's the executive chairman of the company. He's one voice of many on the board. Plus you have Sundar, Larry, and Sergey that also have a fairly loud voice still.
As far as I know Clinton is both endorsed and funded by Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and Eric Schmidt.
In other words: this will never, ever happen.
> Europeans may soon enjoy better protections than U.S. customers
Not sure if the "may soon" part even applies now.
US Elections makes me realize that Brazil is not even close to americans in regard of corruption. You guys are pro!