Liberals try to delay fight over privacy rules for political parties
The Liberal Party’s lawyers are trying to delay a judicial fight over whether federal political parties must follow basic privacy rules with Canadian voters’ data, Global News has learned.
There are currently almost no rules and zero oversight into how federal political parties collect, store and use sensitive personal information about Canadian voters. Voter data is an increasingly central to modern campaigning, and parties have enjoyed unfettered access to Canadians’ personal information for years.
The move was a direct response to B.C.’s privacy commissioner, who ruled in 2022 that federal parties must follow provincial privacy laws while operating in that province. The Liberals, Conservatives and New Democrats have challenged that ruling in B.C.’s Supreme Court.Canadian Tire’s use of facial recognition technology subject of privacy commissioner’s report
“These proposed amendments further confirm Parliament’s intent that one, uniform privacy regime apply to federal political parties,” reads the Liberal application, obtained by Global News.
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