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Podcast: On the Ballot
Episode: Personal data and the privacy gaps of political campaigns
Description: On this episode: Unlike for-profit organizations, campaigns are considered nonprofits and are, as a result, not as heavily scrutinized when it comes to privacy practices. What does that mean for your personal data when you visit a campaign’s website?Â
Kaushal Kafle–a soon-to-be doctoral graduate from William and Mary University–and his colleagues analyzed the privacy practices of political campaigns through their research of 2,060 campaign websites from the November 2020 general election.
Kafle shares how his research found gaps in privacy practices, including overcollection of private data, failure to provide...