Your phone and TV are tracking you, and political campaigns are listening in


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  • Monday, 25 Feb 2019

Welcome to the loosely-regulated new frontier of campaign tech. (Mirko Vitali/Dreamstime/TNS)

WASHINGTON: It was a crowded primary field and Tony Evers, running for governor, was eager to win the support of officials gathered at a Wisconsin state Democratic party meeting, so the candidate did all the usual things: He read the room, he shook hands, he networked. 

Then he put an electronic fence around everyone there. 

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