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Screenshots taken from two different searches of the Obama for America app, which displays the names and addresses of nearby Democratic voters.

Is your neighbor a Democrat? Obama has an app for that

Aug 7, 2012 ◇ Lois Beckett/ProPublica

A mobile app released by the Obama campaign maps nearby Democratic households for canvassers, but has raised privacy concerns. Read more»

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Net neutrality: Parsing the Google/Verizon announcement

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