Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien said the kind of information collected by political parties is among the most sensitive information Canadians hold. ( Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS file photo )OTTAWA—Parliament needs to address political parties’ ability to operate outside the Canada’s privacy safeguards, the federal privacy watchdog says. Currently there are no rules governing how political parties collect and use sensitive personal information about Canadians, such as political beliefs, family composition, and financial information. “There are no rules governing how much information political parties can collect, how political parties can use that information, with whom they can disclose that information,” Therrien said in an interview with the Star last week. “All of these rules that apply to government departments, or to private organizations, which are basic privacy safeguards, (they) do not apply to political parties.

Source: thestar November 02, 2016 23:13 UTC