While reading about the “cave dwellers” and the staggering amounts of information the Obama campaign generated on potential voters, I thought back to an article I read about swing states and how focused presidential campaigns are on them. This got me thinking about how people living in these states were likely targeted much more often than voters in other states that were almost guaranteed to go one way or the other.<\/p>\n
The presidential candidates focused all of their public campaign event efforts into only 12 states during the 2012 election- why wouldn’t they focus all their data mining efforts to these states? This would give them less data do sift through and perhaps build even more detailed files on individuals as well as models predicting election results in those states.<\/p>\n
Thinking about how geographically targeted political data mining is lead me to wonder about the effects geographic location has on your susceptibility to data mining as a whole. Are there certain areas whose residents see more information being gathered on them then others? Or is it a more arbitrary matter?<\/p>\n
I would think that you would see a positive correlation between certain areas and the amount of information gathered on individuals in it, and that this correlation would have everything to do with the type of individuals who live in it. Population and other factors probably wouldn’t show much relation, but a very technologically savvy city like Champaign, IL would see more data mining efforts than a less connected city like Cheyenne, WY.<\/p>\n
Perhaps there is no correlation at all and almost everyone is subject to big data mining, but I think it poses an interesting question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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