{"id":14530,"date":"2020-11-18T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=14530"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:42:54","slug":"official-trump-2020-app-collected-phone-numbers-from-contact-lists-without-consent-and-could-sell-that-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/official-trump-2020-app-collected-phone-numbers-from-contact-lists-without-consent-and-could-sell-that-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Trump 2020 App collected phone numbers from contact lists without consent and could sell that data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phunware, the developers of the Official Trump 2020 App, is in dire financial straits due to a lawsuit with Uber. This has lead experts and media to question what will happen to the vast drove of private information collected from 2.8 million users by the app during the course of the campaign. Collected information includes location data, IP addresses, phone numbers from contact lists, and all this information has been synced up with national voter information databases.<\/p>\n

All apps, especially campaign apps from both sides of the aisle, are usually quite aggressive about getting users to enable all possible permissions. In the Official Trump 2020 App\u2019s case, it has been revealed that developers were actually told to ignore user consent settings and access the user\u2019s contact list anyways. The privacy concern lies in the fact that Phunware may have collected more information than they were allowed. The Associated Press<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo former employees said Knitowski told engineers to embed invisible tracking software to follow users\u2019 behavior inside each app they built to boost Phunware\u2019s offerings to campaigns.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of those ex-employees told AP:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were told they needed to be in every app to collect information for whatever we did, and the political vertical was one of those reasons. It would still go in even if the customer said they didn\u2019t want it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Estimates vary but it\u2019s very likely that Phunware has at least 27 million phone numbers of Trump supporters and those in the contact lists of Trump supporters. The Trump campaign declined to state what this private information will be used for in the future; however, a senior Trump campaign official emphasized to the AP under condition of anonymity:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe data is owned by the campaign and limited whatever hit their servers [\u2026]\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is always a possibility when you share information with apps<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that the official campaign app from President elect Joe Biden \u2013 Team Joe and later Vote Joe \u2013 also collected IP addresses, location information, and even contact lists; however if the user declined to consent to sharing this information, the app would respect that request as opposed to siphoning the information anyways with invisible code. It\u2019s also worth noting that the official campaign app from Biden had orders of magnitude less downloads than the official campaign app from Trump.<\/p>\n

MIT Technology Review<\/a> made a table with a comprehensive list of the permissions requested by both official campaign apps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Access requested<\/td>\nTrump 2020<\/td>\nTeam Joe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Phone identity<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bluetooth pairing<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Read, write, or delete data<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Identity (find accounts on the device)<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Calendar<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
USB storage<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Device ID and call information<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Receive data from internet<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Broadcast data messages to apps<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Full network access<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Control vibration<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Run at startup<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prevent device from sleeping<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
View network connections<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pair with Bluetooth devices<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Change your audio settings<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Official Trump 2020 App was meant to feed Cambridge Analytica with data<\/h2>\n

A former Phunware executive, Ian Karnell, explained to CBS News earlier this year that the data from the Official Trump 2020 App is a perfect fit<\/a> for propaganda machines like that which ran the Cambridge Analytica<\/a> scandal back when all this information was available from Facebook<\/a>. Karnell recalled that tying all this information together for political purposes was part of the core pitch from Phunware to the Trump campaign. He told CBS News what he told the Trump campaign:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have this mobile graph that has years of device ID information that we\u2019ve matched with voter records with some of the biggest voter record databases in the United States at that point. And we\u2019ll be able to share that graph data back with you. You can extract that and leverage that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The thing with private information is that if it\u2019s useful for politics, it\u2019s definitely useful for advertising. The fact of the matter is that all of this data, willingly handed over by app users, is now undoubtedly on the market due to Phunware\u2019s flailing financial status. While it\u2019s obvious that this data would be useful in the 2024 election, it\u2019s worth worrying about what all this data could be used for in the meantime. Big data wants its hands on that data, and there really isn\u2019t anything to stop them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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