U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said Canada’s political parties need independent oversight in regards to their data policies, CBC News reports. Denham said political parties need to be transparent over the ways they acquire data, and while those parties have their own internal data protection policies, they are simply not good enough. “If you don't have independent oversight, how can the public trust what's going on? Because then the parties are marking their own homework,” said Denham, who previously served as British Columbia’s privacy commissioner. Denham added she would like to see Canada adopt privacy laws similar to the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
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