If you’ve gotten a steady flow of texts and phone calls from political campaigns this election season, you are not alone. It made us curious -- how do political campaigns get hold of your personal information and how much of it do they have?
Geoffrey Fowler wrote an article about it for The Washington Post. He joined All Things Considered to talk about what’s going on here.
Hear the interview below:
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