Robocall Company Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of Voter Records

Hundreds of thousands of voter records were left exposed on an Amazon S3 bucket, ZDNet reports, this time by Virginia-based robocalling firm Robocent. Among the information that was left accessible were names, home addresses, gender, phone numbers, age, birth years, ethnicity, education and language spoken as well as state-provided or inferred political leanings such as "weak Democrat," "hard Republican" and "swing" voter.

Last year, information on nearly 200 million US citizens was exposed by a political ad-targeting strategist, and a voting machine supplier leaked personal information from over 1.8 million Chicago residents. (Yahoo Finance 18 Jul 2018)
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It's not a matter of if a database of personal information is going to be exposed, it's just a matter of when. Whenever some business or organization asks that you provide them with your personal information, ask yourself whether they really need it and what benefit you get by providing it.