Calgary journalist notified Elections Alberta about voter list breach weeks ago

Elections Alberta says it could not investigate voter info breach sooner due to provincial law

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Calgary journalist notified Elections Alberta about voter list breach weeks ago

As RCMP and Elections Alberta investigate an online database that exposed the personal information of millions of voters, a Calgary journalist says she warned Elections Alberta about the issue a month ago.

Elections Alberta alerted to improper use of voters’ information in late March, journalist says

A journalist says she warned Elections Alberta weeks ago about what she believed could be a massive privacy breach affecting millions of voters. But the agency says provincial legislation passed last year constrained them from investigating.

Unauthorized access to list of electors concerns Alberta’s privacy commissioner

The unauthorized distribution of the list of electors demonstrates that it is “high time” for political parties to be made subject to the Personal Information Protection Act, says Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner. The list of electors contains electors’ first names, middle names, surnames, address, postal code, telephone number, unique identifier number, electoral division, and voting area. On Thursday, Elections Alberta alerted Al…

Amendment to Alberta election law hindered probe into alleged misuse of data, watchdog says

Elections Alberta faced criticism for not acting on information that a separatist group may have had unauthorized access to electors list

Albertans question timeline of alleged voter list leak, call for election law changes

The database contained names and addresses of millions of Albertans and by law, such a list is only supposed to go to elected officials, political parties and party officials.