🇨🇦 Alberta's voter data handed to separatists, now bureaucrats want a pause

Nearly three million Albertans had their personal information leaked after Elections Alberta gave the Republican Party of Alberta the full elector list, which somehow ended up with the Centurion Project — a separatist group that built a searchable database showing names, addresses, and polling stations. The tool was live until a judge forced it offline. Chief electoral officer Gordon McClure now wants to stop sharing voter lists with parties until laws change. Convenient timing.

Alberta's privacy commissioner has been begging for decades to apply privacy laws to political parties. Decades. The same protections that govern private companies don't apply to the people who want your vote and apparently your home address. Meanwhile, domestic violence victims are now on edge and former Premier Kenney thinks the leak was intentional. But sure, let's wait for another committee recommendation while your data circulates in activist circles.

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