A bill making its way through the legislature of Ireland could give organizations the ability to gather data for political campaigns, The Irish Times reports. Castlebridge Managing Director Daragh O’Brien said the Data Protection Bill 2018 will give companies “a blanket permission” to harvest data for “electoral activities.” “That term is not defined anywhere, so creates a free-for-all for organisations like Cambridge Analytica to set up shop here and influence voters and elections anywhere in the world with impunity and no possibility of sanction from the DPC. If we want Ireland to be the global capital of election manipulation, this is precisely how it is done,” O’Brien said.
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