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Submission + - America PAC's VoteSafe.org is nothing but a honeypot (cybernews.com)

echo123 writes: Elon Musk’s bogus voter registration website is collecting extensive user data and selling it.

The website was funded by Musk and is operated by America PAC, a conservative political action committee founded in 2024 to support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

The VoteSafe.org website has been promoted as a way for Americans to register to vote and check their registration ahead of the November midterm elections.

But MeidasTouch and Snopes found that despite presenting itself as a voter-registration resource, the site doesn’t actually register users to vote.

The site's privacy policy says America PAC can collect information, including:

        Users' names
        Dates of birth
        Addresses
        Email addresses
        Phone numbers
        IP addresses
        Location
        Information about how they interact with the site

It also permits the collection of "inferences" about users, including their preferences, characteristics, behavior, attitudes, and psychological tendencies.

The policy says the information may be shared with or sold to business partners for targeted marketing.
 

Comment Re:I'm still wondering (Score 4, Insightful) 224

You'll notice we "liberated" Venezuela's oil reserves for absolutely no goddamned reason, shortly before we started a war with Iran for absolutely no goddamned reason.

No, that's not true. The reason Trump went to war with Iran was to distract everyone from the Epstein files, which were gaining serious news cycle coverage at the time. ...and the Epstein files are like an iceberg. We still don't know how big they are yet, but we keep discovering more serious stuff.

Comment Re:Refreshing (Score 1) 31

Quite refreshing. Some new sick, scary idea, that I can not directly recall from any dystopian novel, but it would fit nicely into many of them. It's like a preludy to "Being Inc" from Lem's "Perfect Vacuum" (which is a collection of reviews of imaginary books, so it doesn't count). And what an endless opportunity for selling your life to whomever pays more. "Suggestions" like "how about movie X", "new restaurant Y", "buy product Z", etc. Sweet!

Won't someone think of the children? Seriously, kids these days immediately turn to AI for answers to everything, just like oldsters would easily google stuff from their 'smartphones'. And kids tend not to hesitate to upload so much of their personal information, which tends to stick around forever.

And companies get hacked by motivated actors using evolving tools and technology. What can possibly go wrong?

Comment Re:The long-term impact of this on the US (Score 2, Interesting) 195

The US spent 75 years becoming one of the best, if not the best, scientific countries in the world and now, in just a few short years, it's rapidly undoing much of that.

The Trump administration has been an anathema to science for reasons which I fail to comprehend. Can someone explain why this is? Is this just something fascist autocrats do?

Comment Re:Not sure why they don't do what Google does (Score 1) 56

Didn't you have to pay a shitload of taxes though? There are usually penalties for extracting money out of a 401k. I didn't think there was a way to move them to something like a money market account without incurring those penalties

The GP might be of an age and income which lowers the tax bracket for withdrawals, and without penalties. This is kinda the point of having a 401k.

Comment Re:Another win for Linux! (Score 1) 69

It's not a question about immunity. It's a question about privacy

It seems to be a question of you not following the conversation, or did you reply to the wrong comment? This particular thread is about security.

OK, I could have phrased my reply better, but can't there be two perspectives? Security and Privacy? The Microsoft Corporation outed the guy using his Windows License ID.

Comment Re:Another win for Linux! (Score 1) 69

A win would be these fucking companies spending the correct money for proper security. They skimp on their IT budgets so this happens, even after getting hacked!

This is such a simplistic take. We're living in the age of Anthropic's Mythos LLM, and others like it. Vulnerabilities ate being discovered at an unprecedented rate. Don't kid yourself that Linux will be immune.

It's not a question about immunity. It's a question about privacy -- using linux is clearly more private than using Microsoft and it's the lack of privacy that did the kid in.

Comment Re:Everyone Saw This Coming (Score 1) 56

Broardcom's entire business model with these acquisitions (they did the same thing with others before VMWare) is to acquire something everyone depends on AND can't easily switch off ... and then jack up the prices by an insane amount.

The Martin Shkreli business model.

What are the odds Martin Shkreli will be 1 of the 250 pardoned this week, the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence from a monarchy? After all Martin Shkreli is just another white collar criminal.

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