A major bug in Joe Biden's campaign app

Discovered in the code of Vote Joe, the official mobile application for Joe Biden's election campaign, a serious bug that potentially exposed sensitive data belonging to millions of American citizens. The App Analyst research team brought it to light, highlighting the risks to privacy.

Vote Joe: Biden's app slips into privacy

The software functionality that allows users to scan their contact list to see if friends and family have registered to vote in the 2020 US Presidential elections to be held in early November. In the event of a positive match, the person's name, approximate age and birthday are shown as well as the list of votes in which he participated. This is information provided by TargetSmart, a company that claims to be in possession of these details for approximately 191 million US citizens. , without even having to specify the phone number: just the full name. It also seems that more data has been processed than those shown, including a forecast on voting preferences, in other words whether a subject is deemed inclined to assign his preference to the Democratic or the Republican faction.

A manager of the election campaign confirmed that the developer solved the problem on Friday, entrusting a brief statement to the pages of the TechCrunch site.