Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak

Re:Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak by Taniwha on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:17PM (#14590081)

I think people are missing the big legal liability .... this information has been published to the world, it contains estimates of people's deeply held political beliefs - some of it will be wildly wrong and those people might consider that they have been libeled .... roll on the lawsuits

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Re:Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak by dragonwriter on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:05PM (#14591080)

Libel, in the US, requires the publisher to either known the claim is false ormto publish it with reckless disregard for the truth when it is, in fact, false; I don't think that there is anyway that this could be construed to meet that, no matter what legal theory as to who the liable publisher is you use.

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Re:Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak by political_tech on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:02PM (#14591070)

The liability wouldn't be with the RNC or Deep Root; the liability would be on the entity that actually published the information. That's if you consider this to meet the legal definition of publishing (the legal definition of libel, as I understand it, is "to publish in print (including pictures), writing or broadcast through radio, television or film...").

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