Hussein's Organizing for America (became Organize for Action) How they need to know everything about you http://www.p2012.org/candidates/obamaorg.html (view my comment on Maxine Waters talking about Obama in 2013 after inauguration.  "The President has put in place, an organization, that contains, a kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life." "Obama's 2012 election chief technology officer Harper Reed came from outside the political realm, and the campaign brought on many engineers and analysts with no political experience.  Among its roles, the technology department developed tools "to make door knocking easier."  One such tool was Dashboard, "the online organizing network for Obama 2012...it empowers you to take on a major role in this campaign."  Messina described Dashboard as "the hardest thing we did in the entire campaign."  The early Organizing for America effort at the DNC, all the field offices and staff during the campaign, and the campaign's groundbreaking use of technology and data, were all about  building relationships" Harper Reed, the guy who could see the future: Obama’s tech chief predicted foreign hacking of  2016 U.S. elections back in 2013  One way for 'microtargeting' moving the message closer to the voter, is by controlling what voters are allowed to see on social media, no? Maybe they already thought of that while brainstorming on FB /s. About Built to win: Deep inside Obama’s campaign tech More tech related people in ObamaWorld Scott VanDenPlas, the head of the Obama technology team's DevOps group https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/built-to-win-deep-inside-obamas-campaign-tech/  Clint Ecker, senior engineer for Obama for America (and an Ars Technica alum) ...the much-vaunted secret weapon, Project Houdini—a get-out-the-vote system that was supposed to revolutionize the Election Day ground game. Each voter in each swing-state voting precinct was assigned a numeric code; when poll watchers recorded the voters arriving, the watchers were supposed to dial in the code to Houdini's automated hotline. But the load on the hotline brought it down, and the campaign had to fail over either to texting or to calling the codes back into local field offices, where the data was re-entered into a webpage manually. "2008 was the 'Jaws' moment," said Obama for America's Chief Technology Officer Harper Reed. "It was, 'Oh my God, we're going to need a bigger boat." So they began to build one. To pull it off, the Obama team relied almost exclusively on Amazon's cloud computing services for computing and storage power. At its peak, the IT infrastructure for the Obama campaign took up "a significant amount of resources in AWS's Northern Virginia data center," said Ecker. "We actually had to start using beefier servers, because for a period of time we were buying up most of the available smaller Elastic Compute Cloud instance types in the East data center." Atop Amazon's services, the Obama team built Narwhal—a set of services that acted as an interface to a single shared data store for all of the campaign's applications, making it possible to quickly develop new applications and to integrate existing ones into the campaign's system. Those apps include sophisticated analytics programs like Dreamcatcher, a tool developed to "microtarget" voters based on sentiments within text. And there's Dashboard, the "virtual field office" application that helped volunteers communicate and collaborate. "Being able to decouple all the apps from each other [by using Narwhal] has such power," Harper Reed, the chief technology officer for the Obama campaign, told Ars. "It allowed us to scale each app individually and to share a lot of data between the apps, and it really saved us a lot of time." The resulting platform gave Obama for America tools that helped "force-multiply" volunteers, giving them organizational and communication tools that made the Obama "ground game" even more effective. When Reed was brought onboard by Obama campaign Chief Integration and Innovation Officer Michael Slaby in June 2011, the choices Reed made were informed by the 2008 campaign—but also by the mentality of Internet startups. "We knew we were going to go big," Reed said. "We needed to architect [the campaign's IT infrastructure] in such a way that it actually worked. "I looked at a lot of architectures," Reed said. "Coming out of [previous employer] Threadless, and having watched what Amazon and other large organizations had done—and how powerful these API platforms have become—it was obvious that the best path forward was to follow services oriented architecture (SOA) principles and build a services architecture that allowed for all of our apps to connect together and share one common data store." But to build Reed's "bigger boat" meant adopting a startup-like strategy in more ways than just architecture. He needed to build a team within the Obama campaign that behaved like an Internet startup, a dedicated staff of engineers willing to work long hours for a rapid ramp-up to the ultimate payout: reelecting the president. Reed went out and recruited people who already knew the territory, snapping up both local talent (such as Ecker) and people from out of town with Internet bona fides—veterans from companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and TripIt. No doubt Brennan approved of each one of them. As I'm reading the article I vaguely remember something about FB and via Q, we discovered that Zuckerberg was just the new face of Lifelog...hmm Reed also mentioned the need to prevent voter suppression not just in the US, but around the world.  This is the tool he referred to to do that https://www.ushahidi.com/ http://archive.is/4fUUC Maybe FBI would find their services useful.  In a simple search I found this: http://time.com/4578814/donald-trump-spread-of-hate/ We have already heard of election-related increases in anxiety levels among patients and reports indicate that utilization of crisis support services is on the rise. We believe that existing public health and medical approaches offer a unique opportunity to tackle this emerging threat. Using the crisis reporting tools of Ushahidi one could get the equivalent of a viral epidemic of a given sentiment of Obama supporters.  Like someone blowing their nose over the loud speaker, the non Obama supporters would barely get a glance as alert media partners cited the trend of butthurt sniffles and wails across America coming from Ushahidi. This would also in part, offer an explanation of why so many Americans are in the dark about Trump's major accomplishments.  They don't get access to news, the news reports what they report about their feelings.  With technology, the articles write themselves.  /s  Read the Times piece, it's hilarious, knowing what we know now. http://time.com/4578814/donald-trump-spread-of-hate/ Lines like "The next step is to scrutinize our systems for surveillance and intervention. One system for hate crimes tracking has been the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division."  and Given gaps in tracking and intervention, the next step is seeking better surveillance systems and developing effective solutions. Some work on this has already been initiated. As even the DOJ described hate crimes as under-reported, and with the possibility of Trump administration neglecting these issues further, civil society has already stepped in. Technology innovators such as Ushahidi and longstanding anti-discrimination groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center have already been leading the charge with tools for reporting and mapping hate-based activity. Ushahidi’s Post Election Monitor and the SPLC’s Hate Map can supplement the FBI’s systems for crime reporting. So basically: Trump = hate.  Hate crimes happen but Trump will probably ignore them.  Call the FBI to monitor. It doesn't stop there, one might need lifetime services given that Trump = hate.  And surveillance can help, what if your baby is born colicky because it was conceived during the Trump presidency? Given that the downstream health effects of hate crimes and discrimination are so dramatic, public health and medical systems should join these efforts. Public health systems have deep experience with meticulously capturing, monitoring, and using data over time to identify and track risk factors, map incidence, and study outcomes and potential solutions. Doctors and psychologists can supplement these efforts by playing a role in detecting and reporting events their patients experience, and by providing necessary support, counseling, and access to further care.  Obama and his campaign's use of technology were so much more than just about winning the 2012 election. A public health approach first and foremost requires rigorous and meticulous collection and tracking of data. Civil society, academia, and the media can and should build and use the data infrastructure that will allow for meaningful conversation about what is truly happening.  Micro spying only goes so far however. "In 2008 McCain and Obama campaigns were hacked by a foreign entity...I have no idea who that was" --Harper Reed 2013 Report: China hacked Obama, McCain campaigns in 2008 The hackers apparently sent "phishing" emails to top aides with an attachment claiming to be an agenda for an upcoming meeting. But the attachment was actually a sophisticated virus that spread through the campaigns' networks, quietly spying on their activity.  No telling.