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Australians face heavy profiling in upcoming election
- Monday | 6th May, 2019
Last year, Europe introduced sweeping laws requiring political organisations to get specific permission before scraping a person’s data from another website. The company has also limited access to information in its groups, pages and events features, a spokeswoman said. NationBuilder is trying to regain access to Facebook event RSVPs, the only data it uses that is affected by the new policy, said Cowan-Brown. “You start off with an email address, and once you get that email address you get a name. What’s more, Australian political parties and candidates are exempt from privacy laws covering access to the electoral roll data – full names and addresses – that all 16 million voters are required to provide.
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