Party databases

The Privacy Commissioner has confirmed, which is little surprise, that voters can ask for a copy of any info held on them by political party databases.

The Privacy Commissioner has expressed a caution that with electronic media, New Zealanders’ personal details could be pooled and could potentially be accessed with ease by any party employee or member of Parliament.

This is true in theory but a well designed database would only share certain non sensitive info, and keeps other info restricted to the office or user who created it.