Comments | crainefish: What the... !?

crainefish

What the... !?

Jan 14, 2009 17:21

Yes, I did vote for Barak Obama, and yes, I am interested in staying informed about his transition into office ( Read more... )

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maereth January 15 2009, 00:44:52 UTC

I once got signed up for some crazy far-right Christian fundamentalist mailing list. I think sometimes they use lists from other organizations or just kind of type random names with @hotmail.com or @gmail.com at the end of them and see if they get a hit.

samcallahan January 15 2009, 01:12:20 UTC

His campaign apparently did some fairly serious datamining. I heard was that the people who signed up to get the text of the VP announcement to their cell phone might have had their contacts lists imported into a campaign database. So who knows?

Wait, what? crainefish January 15 2009, 22:45:25 UTC

Someone who knows me signs up for a VP announcement, and their _entire_contact_list_ gets imported in? Is that even legal?

Re: Wait, what? tanathalas28 January 15 2009, 23:25:28 UTC

Sadly, yes. Frequently they have to click (or fail to unclick) a checkbox, but in this case, it's their decision, not yours.

I'm pretty sure that if you check out the e-mail or website, there will be a way to unsubscribe. I can't see the Obama Campaign wanting to alienate voters with spam.

Yep, crainefish January 16 2009, 16:21:39 UTC

There is indeed a way to unsubscribe. It just felt very 1984 to me, which was unsettling.