The Telegram editorial board released a piece calling for Canadian privacy laws to be revamped to cover political parties. The editorial board writes it is unacceptable for political parties to continue to be exempt from federal privacy laws, citing the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's calls for a fix to the problem. While Bill C-76 requires political parties to produce privacy policies, it is far from a solution. "But that’s about it — imagine, after all of the mess involved with the collection and use of voter targeting information that came out in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the best our politicians can do is to require parties to have a policy and put it on a website? That’s frankly laughable," the editorial board writes.
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