Could the Conservative Party’s electoral database breach the Data Protection Act?
5 March 2013
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Ever since the Scottish National Party breached the PECR Regulations back in 2005, all political parties have had problems using personal data to identify potential supporters at election time. It is a tricky issue; those standing for election need to process personal data in order to contact supporters and voters. Last Sunday, it emerged that the Conservative Party appears to have used USA-style polling techniques to create a database of voters which, in part, is legitimised by a simple privacy
