Trump’s Reelection Campaign Introducing Phone Monitoring Apps ByBill Toulas-December 12, 2019.813 The company responsible for the 2020 campaign of Donald Trump has hired a business for mobile location services. The firm purchases data from other applications and analyzes it according to the purposes defined. In this case the goal is to recognize and feed potential voters with targeted political ads. Phunware contracted a Texan tech firm that offers a wide range of geolocation services according to a report by “The Intercept.” The whole point of this is to find potential voters such as those who attend specific events, and then provide them with targeted political advertising. We literally have no idea who gets to access our personal information and once we get a targeted message we wonder what set off our interest in something. Neither the people behind Trump’s campaign nor the spokespersons for Phunware commented on what details they plan to gather in the light of this partnership. Back in 2016, however, activists from Trump criticized Catholics who attended church because they considered this group to be similar to what they represent politically. It indicates that the targeting is very precise and such activities have even resulted in the media conducting inquiries that tried to establish where the monitoring limits are set. Back in August we saw how an insecure Amazon S3 pool revealed 6.2 million people’s email addresses that were the focus of a political campaign surrounding the 2012 Us presidential election. Collecting data on people is becoming more popular than ever and the possibility of revealing these people has exponentially increased. Perhaps that negative side of things is why both negotiating parties remain silent about the specifics of what they are planning to have. Whatever the case, consider reviewing the privacy settings and policies of the applications you are using if you receive targeted political ads in the time that follows.