In a blog post for BankInfoSecurity, Jeremy Kirk writes how the current voting framework in the U.S. fails to safeguard voter privacy. He writes that states freely provide or sell voters’ personal information without consent and adds that voter registration information often contains names, mailing addresses, email addresses, birth dates, races, gender, party affiliation and phone numbers. This information, all of which is considered personal information, is equally valuable to both political campaigns and cybercriminals alike. Kirk argues there is a way to protect against voter fraud while safeguarding voter privacy, adding that “U.S. states need to realize that online risks have grown by an order of magnitude since regulations around voter registration data were developed.”
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