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ByMichaelBiesecker and Julie Bykowicz The Associated Press WASHINGTON Protecting the privacy of law-abid- ing citizens from the gov- ernment is a pillar of Ted Cruz's Republican presiden- tial candidacy, but his cam- paign is testing the limits of siphoning personal data from supporters. His "Cruz Crew" mobile app is designed to gather detailed information from its users' phones — tracking their physical movements and mining the names and contact information for friends who might want nothing to do with his cam- paign. That information and more is then fed into a vast database containing details about nearly every adult in the United States to build psychological pro- files that target individual voters with uncanny accu- racy. Cruz's sophisticated an- alytics operation was her- alded as key to his victory in Iowa earlier this month — the first proof, his cam- paign said, that the system has the potential to power him to the nomination. After finishing a distant third in New Hampshire, Cruz is looking to boost the turnout of likely support- ers in South Carolina and in Southern states with pri- maries on March 1, where voters are more evangelical and conservative. The son of mathema- ticians and data process- ing programmers, Cruz is keenly and personally in- terested in the work. "Analytics gives the cam- paign a roadmap for every- thing we do," said Chris Wilson, data and digital director. "He has an acute understanding of our work and continually pushes me on it." Data-mining to help can- didates win elections has been increasing among both Republicans and Dem- ocrats. Mobile apps by other presidential campaigns also collect some information about users. But The Associated Press found the Cruz campaign's app — downloaded to more than 61,000 devices so far — goes furthest to glean personal data. The Cruz app prompts supporters to register using their Facebook logins, giv- ing the campaign access to personal information such as name, age range, gender, location and photograph, plus lists of friends and relatives. Those without a Facebook account must ei- ther provide an email ad- dress or phone number to use the app. By contrast, the app of- fered by GOP candidate Ben Carson's campaign asks supporters to surren- der the same information as Cruz from their Facebook accounts, but also gives an option to use it without pro- viding any personal infor- mation. Carson's app sep- arately asks users to let the campaign track their movements and asks them to voluntarily supply their birthdate and gender — in- cluding options for "male," "female" and "other." Ohio Gov. John Kasich's campaign app doesn't re- quest personal informa- tion from supporters, but it repeatedly nags users to let the campaign track their movements until they an- swer yes. Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders' app, "Field the Bern," requires supporters to sign in using their Face- book account or an email address, and it also repeat- edly asks to let the cam- paign track their move- ments until they answer yes. The other 2016 presiden- tial contenders, including Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, appear not to have officially sanctioned cam- paign apps in Apple and Android stores. The Cruz app separately urges users to let it down- load their phone contacts, giving the campaign a trove of phone numbers and per- sonal email addresses. The campaign says that by us- ing its app, "You hereby give your express consent to ac- cess your contact list," but Wilson said the campaign will not do this to anyone who declines to allow it when the app requests per- mission. Cruz's app also transmits to the campaign each user's physical location whenever the app is active, unless a user declines to allow it. The campaign said it does this "so that we can connect you to other Cruz Crew us- ers based on your particular geographic location." The campaign tells users it can share all the personal information it collects with its consultants or other or- ganizations, groups, causes, campaigns or political orga- nizations with similar view- points or goals. PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL Cruz app data collection helps campaign read minds J.SCOTTAPPLEWHITE—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas talks to reporters outside the Senate chamber in Washington. By Julie Pace and Catherine Lucey The Associated Press MILWAUKEE Hillary Clin- ton and Bernie Sanders bat- tled for the crucial back- ing of black and Hispanic voters in Thursday night's Democratic debate and clashed heatedly over their support for Barack Obama as the presidential race shifted toward states with more minority voters. Clinton, who has cast herself as the rightful heir to Obama's legacy, accused Sanders of diminishing the president's record and short-changing his leader- ship. "The kind of criticism I hear from Senator Sand- ers, I expect from Repub- licans. I do not expect it from someone seeking the Democratic nomination," Clinton said in a sharp ex- change at the close of the two-hour debate in Milwau- kee. Her biting comments followed an interview in which Sanders suggested Obama hadn't succeeded in closing the gap between Congress and the American people — something Obama himself has acknowledged. Sanders responded sharply: "Madam Secretary, that is a low blow." And he noted that Clinton was the only one on the stage who ran against Obama in the 2008 presidential race. After splitting this year's first two states with Sand- ers, Clinton also renewed her assertion that her un- expectedly strong rival was energizing voters with promises "that cannot be kept." Seeking to boost his own support with minori- ties, Sanders peppered his typically economic-focused rhetoric with calls to re- form a "broken criminal justice system." "At the end of my first term, we will not have more people in jail than any other country," he said. In one of many moments of agreement between the candidates, Clinton con- curred on a need to address a criminal justice system that incarcerates a dispro- portionate number of mi- norities. But she cast her proposals for fighting ra- cial inequality as broader than his. "We're going to empha- size education, jobs and housing," said Clinton, who was endorsed earlier in the day by the political action committee of the Congres- sional Black Caucus. Long viewed as the over- whelming front-runner in the Democratic race, Clin- ton has been caught off guard by Sanders' strength, particularly his visceral connection with Ameri- cans frustrated by the cur- rent political and economic systems. Clinton's own cam- paign message has looked muddled compared to his ringing call for a "polit- ical revolution," and her connections to Wall Street have given Sanders an easy way to link her to the sys- tems his supporters want to overhaul. Seeking to stem Sand- ers' momentum, Clinton's campaign has argued that his appeal is limited to the white, liberal voters who make up the Democratic electorate in Iowa and New Hampshire. The candidates both vowed to pursue compre- hensiveimmigrationreform, using the emotional issue to draw a contrast with Repub- licans who oppose allowing many of the millions of peo- ple in the United States ille- gally to stay. The former secretary of state sought to discredit some of the proposals that have drawn young people to Sanders, including his call for free tuition at public col- leges and universities and a plan for a government-run, single-payer health care system. Clinton said those proposals come with unre- alistic price tags. 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