Financially Troubled Startup Helped Power Trump Campaign
Source: Associated Press
Phunware Inc., a software company that built the cellphone app propelling President Donald Trumps supporters, is in financial distress and has received key support from the administration and the presidents reelection campaign.
By Associated Press, Wire Service Content Nov. 17, 2020, at 4:58 p.m.
BY GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) President Donald Trumps 2020 reelection campaign was powered by a cellphone app that allowed staff to monitor the movements of his millions of supporters, and offered intimate access to their social networks.
While the campaign may be winding down, the data strategy is very much alive, and the digital details the app collected can be put to multiple other uses to fundraise for the presidents future political ventures, stoke Trumps base, or even build an audience for a new media empire.
The app lets Trumps team communicate directly with the 2.8 million people who downloaded it more than any other app in a U.S. presidential campaign and if they gave permission, with their entire contact list as well.
Once installed, it can track their behavior on the app and in the physical world, push out headlines, sync with mass texting operations, sell MAGA merchandise, fundraise and log attendance at the presidents rallies, according to the apps privacy policy and user interface.
Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-11-17/financially-troubled-startup-powered-trump-campaign
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Not that anywhere near all of them would do so of course, but ... it's certainly possible to ask them to all in one go.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,656 posts)Could be an opportunity of a lifetime....
JudyM
(29,293 posts)Set up a dark investor to buy em out and make some subtle changes plus keep an eye on em.
torius
(1,652 posts)to stop it from it delivering Americans data to an authoritarian regime ...