A digital privacy group is going to court over its disagreement with a decision from Canada's elections watchdog, which found that there was no reason to suspect the Liberal, Conservative and New Democrat parties used the voters list improperly.
The group, the Centre for Digital Rights , is alleging that the Canada Elections Commissioner Yves Côté "erred in law" when he found that a complaint the group filed earlier in the year did "not provide any reason to suspect" a contravention of the Canada Elections Act.
That subsection explains that the parties are allowed to use the voters lists to communicate with voters, "including using them for soliciting contributions and recruiting party members." However, the elections commissioner's office pointed CTVNews.ca to the commissioner's 2018-2019 Annual Report, in which"While a number of complaints have been received by the CCE over the years, enforcement action has generally not been warranted because the Act's provisions are broad and minimally restrictive with respect to using the information contained in the lists of electors," the report reads.
A look at the various complaints described on the website — all filed by the CDR — provides a snapshot into the kind of concerns the group is raising about the alleged improper usage of voters’ information.
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