If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked
Summary
New research indicates that even limited public voter rolls can be cross-referenced with social media data to identify individuals. This poses a risk, as foreign intelligence services could potentially use this method to identify family members of deployed military personnel.
IFF Assessment
FOE
The ability to easily identify individuals and their family members by cross-referencing public data with social media represents a significant privacy and security risk.
Defender Context
This highlights the ongoing challenge of protecting personal information that is publicly available. Defenders should be aware of how seemingly innocuous data sets can be combined to create comprehensive profiles, which can then be exploited for targeted attacks or intelligence gathering.