Odd reaction, no, I was just wondering what the post was about.
id suggest your reaction was a lot odder, as the post spoke for itself
Thatâd be like you alright.
SF are storing info thatâs freely available to everyone? Fucking bastards. Utter scum. They have to go.
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Ogra SF are busy
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Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) Helen Dixon has written to Sinn FĂ©in seeking information about its collection and use of data from Facebook and the electoral register.
It is understood officials in Ms Dixonâs office have raised concerns about the partyâs practice of using the public Facebook information of potential voters to allow it to engage in targeted campaigning, including in-person canvassing.
Last week, the Sunday Independent reported that party officials are being told to use personal information posted on social media to identify votersâ home addresses.
Members are told that âFacebook is kingâ and that members should elicit more information from users so they can âtag them as a social media engaged and follow up with a canvass on their doorstep,â according to an internal document.
This is done using the partyâs sophisticated AbĂș canvassing database and through the use of the electoral register, which lists voter addresses and is open to all political parties.
Ms Dixonâs office has put a series of questions in writing to Sinn FĂ©in about how it uses the data and if users are aware how their public data is being processed. It is understood the office is particularly interested in the issue of user consent and knowledge.
Privacy expert Daragh OâBrien said the partyâs data practices are âpushing the envelopeâ in terms of what is permitted.
There are broad exceptions in Data Protection Act for processing for âelectoral activitiesâ, but there is no formal definition of what âelectoral activitiesâ are in this context, he said.
âOf course, if Sinn FĂ©in havenât disclosed to people that they are linking activities on Facebook to off-line electoral analytics and location data to then drive a physical canvas that would be a potential issue from a fairness/transparency perspective under GDPR,â said Mr OâBrien, who is managing director of the data firm Castlebridge.
So the story here is SF are making better use of data available via electoral register and social media sites than other parties. The indo havenât quoted one law or electoral regulation that may have been breached either.
Nobody would even be considering voting sf if the parties beloved of INM/RTĂ et all were in anyway competent or even honest.
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Theyâve been asked to clarify some issues by the DP regulator. Weâll have to wait and see what their response is.
Leoâs pwned them there
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Heâs some tool.
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Leo is fighting wars on 3 fronts and doing it at his ease
Kieran is an oddball
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That is as bizarre a tweet Iâve seen in a long time.
Heâs been on form this week with hot takes around the super league. He always looks for the edgy angle.
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Out with the old - in with the new.
The new have to be one of; female, gay, trans, have over 10k twitter/insta followers, a survivor, donated a kidney, can hop on and off bandwagons at will.
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