A leading expert on personal-information law says the Trudeau government is unwilling to hold political parties to the same level of accountability it is demanding of other organizations in its current revamp of the federal privacy regime.
Teresa Scassa, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, says the Liberals are imposing significant new obligations on many organizations but "they're simply not willing to hold themselves" and other parties to account as political entities.
Scassa says the government could ensure federal parties abide by provisions that would require them, for example, to obtain consent to use personal information, report data breaches when they happen and erase personal details upon someone's request.
"There's a lot that you could put in there that would dramatically improve the protection of individuals' privacy, when it comes to political parties," Scassa said. "They seem completely unwilling to do so. It's a very significant problem."
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