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Lawsuit accuses firearms group of using gun owners’ personal data to tailor political ads

A firearms trade group built a database with personal details of millions of gun owners and used it for political ads, according to a new lawsuit.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is accused of obtaining data from gun makers without customers' consent and enriching itself through political advertising.
The lawsuit alleges the group shared gun owners' data with the Trump campaign and Republican political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for targeted ads in 2016.

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Lawsuit accuses firearms industry group of using gun owners' personal data to tailor political ads

A new lawsuit filed in Connecticut accuses a firearms industry group of secretly building a database containing the personal information of millions of gun owners and using the data to target gun rights supporters with political ads.

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Firearms Industry Organization Accused of Using Gun Owners' Personal Data to Tailor Political Ads

A firearms industry trade and lobbying organization secretly built a database containing the personal information of millions of gun owners and used the data to reach gun rights supporters with political ads dating back to the 2000 elections, according to a new lawsuit. The suit against the National Shooting Sports Foundation, based in Shelton, Connecticut, alleges the organization obtained the data from major gun manufacturers, whose customers …

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