Sinn Féin required to tell voters about secret Abú database on all future election material – Data Protection Commissioner
Sinn Féin required to tell voters about secret Abú database on all future election material – Data Protection Commissioner
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Doesn’t make it much of a secret database then does it ~~Mr.~~ Ms DPC??
>The DPC said these were “matters of significant seriousness from a data protection perspective”. The data watchdog said there are no limitations under existing legislation stopping Sinn Féin or any other party from operating database which notes voters perceived voting intentions.
>The DPC found there are “no particularly concerning findings” to report from auditing 26 parties but made more than 80 recommendations on how data protection policies could be improved.
Main take away but still a weird system to have in place and not tell people about it. I mean if you ask them and they tell you, it’s not that hard to say “well is it OK if we put you down as voting that way”. Just makes it way more shadier
Sinn fein will be happy that this will get buried this week I’d say philip Ryan is devastated
>found Sinn Féin had not complied with laws set out in General Data Processing Regulations (GDPR)
Yet not once did the article mention and penalties applied for noncompliance. Again the DPC proving it doenst actually give a flying fuck about data privacy.
Why is SF the only party that has a database that lists who you vote for, could it be :-
a. If you vote for them, then they won’t waste much time on you.
b. If you don’t vote for them, they will target you with meme’s putting down the party you did vote for
c. Come the revolution they know who to send to the re-education camps
Is there any other reasons you can think of?
I thought the independent were giving their Tory propaganda a rest for a while.
Philip Ryan must be devastated that there was no breach, no fine, no sanction and they were just basically told to tighten up on the transparency a bit.
Also, the thing he was bigging up turned out to be totally untrue:
>The audit found no evidence suggesting Sinn Féin has been “using its social media presence, or its activities on social media platforms, to obtain or otherwise process personal data to enrich either the Abú or the party membership databases”.
The funny thing about all this is that most political journos knew that SF, FF, FG and GP all had these databases. That Philip Ryan lad is such an eejit.
Doesn’t this apply to all parties and not just Sin Fein?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), under Article 15, gives individuals the right to request a copy of any of their personal data which are being ‘processed’ (i.e. used in any way) by ‘controllers’ (i.e. those who decide how and why data are processed), as well as other relevant information – be interesting to request information on myself. Same for any party that has information on me..
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In all honesty, I *hope* all of the parties, the ones I like and the ones I don’t like, have previous canvassing interactions with me stored in some kind of database like this – realistically the only practical use for it is for them to decide who it’s worth calling to when going door to door, or whose letterbox to avoid when leafleting.
I imagine it’s useful for FF and FG to know that they needn’t bother come calling to me since I’ll never again give them a preference and (politely) told them as much in the 2016 election – nobody called over for either party in 2020, so I assume they’d marked my gaff down as “don’t bother”.
Saves hassle and annoyance on all sides. I honestly don’t get why this kind of profiling is considered such a surprise.