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Elon Musk Spends Millions Tricking People Into Giving Up Personal Data

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Elon Musk’s super PAC is stealing voters’ personal information—again. The billionaire technocrat’s America PAC has launched an aggressive advertising campaign directing them to Vote Safe, a website claiming to provide users with information they need to “vote with confidence.” But all the while, the site is secretly collecting some information of its own, Judd Legum reported Tuesday on his substack Popular Information . Any visitors to the site will unwittingly hand over their full name, birthday, home address, email address, cellphone number, IP address, browser, location, voter registration status, and district, not to mention every link they click on and every page they look at. The website previously had a privacy policy barring America PAC from sharing this information with advertisers, political organizations, or third parties, but it removed that language last month. Now, America PAC is permitted to sell or share your personal information with “our business partners.” That perso

First report: The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org — popular.info, 7d