A security error in a mobile app has made it possible for anyone to download the personal information for almost 6.5 million eligible voters in Israel, weeks before the country’s national election, reported Haaretz.
The app, called Elector, was used by the party to communicate with voters. Every party receives a copy of the voter registry ahead of elections, and Likud—the party of Israel’s incumbent Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu—uploaded it to the app. They’re not allowed to pass it on to third parties, and are obligated to project privacy.
Trouble at Iowa caucus: Voting app shows ‘inconsistencies’
The Democratic Party’s caucus in Iowa was last night thrown into tumult following the failure of a new mobile app, which led to inconsistencies in voting data. The caucus was supposed to be the place where Democrats in Iowa voted on the next democratic leader to beat the incumbent US president, Donald Trump. But the app, which the Democratic Party planned to use at 1,700 caucus sites across the country, misfired. Mandy McClure, head of communications for the Iowa Democratic Party, said in a st...
Owing to a security flaw in an app, information including names, addresses and identity card numbers were publicly available for anyone to download.
The security lapse comes a week after a flaw in a mobile app, used by the United States’ Democratic Party in the Iowa Caucus, showed inconsistencies.
Detractors of centralized systems might point out that storing voter data in this way is prone to human error and mismanagement.
Encrypting voter data on a blockchain, as has been trialed by Voatz in West Virginia, Denver, and Utah County, could make it voting systems more secure...theoretically.
