If you have a Facebook page and support Cruz on it, you will likely get a message from his campaign. You put that info. out there for the world to see.
Your information on the internet is not secret because you put it on there. Now, if you buy a product on line, any product, you will find pop-ups about that and other similar products every time you are on line. Now, that is invading my privacy but those are going to happen. I bought new collar for my Yorkie on line, and now I see ads for dog collars every time I get on line.
It’s far more than merely signing up for campaign news. Cruz’s people are using Mturk for crowdsourcing. The Mturk people are searching through people’s profiles to create a detailed database. It’s all legal, yes. But it should give most people a lot to consider.
You’re right; I get the same ads for any product I’ve even looked at. But we know about and expect this, even though it’s creepy.
I don’t like this at all. Just how would Cruz offer an opt-in? He’d have to be in some kind of contact with the person first to do that. And no, I wouldn’t trust him more than anyone else to mine my personal information for his campaign.
I’ve been an obvious Cruz and Trump supporter in Facebook for months, and I even “follow” Trump there, but who do you think got my email address for my busy political-friends box? Neither of them, not once. Instead I get bombed by Carson, in whom I’ve never expressed any interest online because I have none. That would lead me to believe the Carson campaign does this, if it had anything to find. (I don’t mind much; it’s fun to mark all the Carson bombs as Spam.)
But do we really believe this, from WaPo?