The first large-scale analysis of its kind analyzed 2,060 House, Senate and presidential campaigns from the 2020 United States election cycle.
According to researchers from the Secure Platforms Lab, data privacy is a bipartisan issue and regulations are needed to prevent political campaigns from misusing user data. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.
Would you trust a random political canvasser to do whatever they wanted with your resume, your friends’ email addresses – and perhaps your profile pictures? That’s precisely what you may be doing when interacting with political campaign websites, according to a new study published in the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) by researchers from William & Mary, Google and IBM. Two W&M doctoral students in computer science – Kaushal Kafle and Prianka Mandal – respectively served as first and second author.
