14-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com

Province considering changes to protect Albertans' personal info from political parties

Albertans lose all rights to their own information once they provide it to political parties, but the government is mulling over a recommendation from the privacy commissioner that could change all that.
As the rules stand, Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act expressly excludes political parties from privacy law.
There’s nothing to stop your details from being passed along to other parties, political campaigns or interest groups if you sign a petition launched by a pol
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