The Verge: Here’s why you can’t shake those unhinged political texts

“By collating all of this information, campaigns can try to infer your behavior, though they also might end up with outdated info, like old addresses that lead you to getting texts about a state you no longer live in (or even erroneous info that invites them for states you never lived in).”

“’Errors in the processing of this information and the identification of individuals are very prevalent,’ says Sara Geoghegan, consumer privacy program director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. ‘Sometimes multiple people use the same device. Sometimes people have similar names. Sometimes people move. And this is such an unregulated ecosystem that there aren’t really rules in place to make sure that this is being effective and accurate, let alone free from bias, discrimination, and verified for privacy impact before processing this information.'”

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