{"id":47895,"date":"2019-08-19T07:20:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47895"},"modified":"2019-08-19T07:20:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T12:20:46","slug":"canadas-political-parties-wont-say-what-they-know-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47895","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Political Parties Won\u2019t Say What They Know about You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Canada\u2019s Political Parties Won\u2019t Say What They Know about You<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Legally, some argue, they don\u2019t have to. Others won\u2019t be fully transparent. One expert says that\u2019s wrong: \u2018It\u2019s not their data.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite several political privacy scandals in recent years, there\u2019s no Canadian federal law allowing individuals to find out what political parties know about them, and how. Photo via Shutterstock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Despite recent scandals that raised public awareness about how political parties collect and use personal information from individuals, none of Canada\u2019s main federal parties are willing to be fully transparent about what they know about you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal has raised these issues to public prominence, [as well as] the whole issue about how personal data is used in elections, how it\u2019s profiled, how it\u2019s used to target ads,\u201d said Colin Bennett, a University of Victoria political science professor who is an expert on privacy protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPolitical parties the world over have to do a lot to restore trust, and they need to be more transparent about what data they\u2019re collecting, how they\u2019re using it, and part of that is allowing citizens to have access to it if they wish it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is, however, no federal law allowing individuals to find out what political parties know about them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when The Tyee tried to find out using British Columbia\u2019s provincial privacy law, which does include such a provision, none of the parties fully filled the request, and two asserted they aren\u2019t covered by the B.C. law at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British Columbia\u2019s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner is aware of the jurisdiction issue. A spokesperson confirmed an inquiry is underway into whether the provincial law applies to the activities of federal parties in the province but declined to provide details while the process is ongoing or say when it was likely to be completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada\u2019s Political Parties Won\u2019t Say What They Know about You Legally, some argue, they don\u2019t have to. Others won\u2019t be fully transparent. One expert says that\u2019s wrong: \u2018It\u2019s not their data.\u2019 Despite recent scandals that raised public awareness about how political parties collect and use personal information from individuals, none of Canada\u2019s main federal parties […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11645,379,9416,765,5499],"class_list":["post-47895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-andrew-macleod","tag-government","tag-political-parties","tag-surveillance","tag-the-tyee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47896,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47895\/revisions\/47896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}