Earlier this month, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office released an update to its investigation of the use of personal data in political campaigns. Released Nov. 6, the report "found a disturbing disregard for voters’ personal privacy by players across the political campaigning ecosystem." And though digital campaigning isn't going anywhere, the ICO's investigation — led by Elizabeth Denham, current ICO commissioner and former privacy commissioner of British Columbia — has wide-ranging implications. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, University of Victoria Professor Colin Bennett and researcher Jesse Gordon, who has worked at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, assess this latest report, arguing that it signals a "significant shift in the discourse about privacy." 
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