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 , 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 or user who created it.