Government’s newly proposed privacy policies won’t change how federal political parties use voter data: ex ...

A section of the government’s new electoral reform law that deals with privacy policies for political parties appears to be designed in response to coming litigation in B.C. involving Canada’s three largest political parties, but it ultimately does not create a more robust privacy regime for the parties to follow, say multiple legal and privacy experts consulted by .

“Since the introduction of the first ever privacy policy requirements in the Canada Elections Act in 2018, the government has noted that they would serve as an important first step to ensuring greater transparency about the ways political parties collect, use, share and secure data—and that the government would continue to reflect on how to further enhance privacy policy requirements for political parties,” said Bujold.

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