In a column for The Telegram, Russell Wangersky writes about data collection and use concerns with the Constituent Information Management System (CIMS). Used by a political party to track supporters and raise campaign funds, the CIMS collects individuals’ names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, birth dates, voting intentions and religious preferences. A recent robocall incident highlights a concern about how the data is used. The incident revealed that party “officials also collected information on individuals who did not support” the party and who “may have not been informed about the purposes the information was being used for,” Wangersky writes, which “raises a number of PIPEDA issues.”
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