British Columbia's information and privacy commissioner is calling out all three of the province's major political parties for over-collecting sensitive information and leaving voters vulnerable to privacy breaches. Our office has received a number of complaints over time about some collection of data by political parties. What we found was political parties do collect a lot of information and a large part of the problem is that they don't ask consent. What personal information is a political party allowed to collect? (Ken Tannenbaum/Shuttershock)I'm sure many of us have seen a targeted ad on social media for a political party we never signed up for or even support.

Source: CBC News February 10, 2019 15:00 UTC