Data-Driven Elections: Workshop Papers

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DATA-DRIVEN ELECTIONS AND PRIVACY: PERSPECTIVES FROM CANADIAN REGULATORS

Relevant Policy Documents:

• Full Disclosure: Political parties, campaign data, and voter consent,  Investigation Report P19-01, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC, February 6, 2019.

• Guidance for federal political parties on protecting personal information,  Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, April 1, 2018

• Release of the report about political parties and protection of personal information (In French),  Élections Québec, February 20, 2019, English summary

Participant Papers (Password required):

DATA-DRIVEN ELECTIONS: GLOBAL TRENDS AND COMPARISONS

• Paper: Facebook and Google as Global Democratic Infrastructures: A Preliminary Five Country Comparative Analysis of Platforms, Paid Political Speech, and Data, by Daniel Kreiss and Bridget O. Barrett

• Paper: Data-driven Campaigns in Practice: Understanding and Regulating Diverse Data-driven Campaigns, by Dr Katharine Dommett

• Slides: Data-driven Campaigns in Practice: Understanding and Regulating Diverse Data-driven Campaigns, by Dr Katharine Dommett

THE POLITICAL TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY

• Personal Data: Political Persuasion, Inside the Influence Industry, by Tactical Tech's Data and Politics Team. March 2019
• web version
• print version

• Paper: Follow the Tech: Emerging Digtal Practices in the 2020 Election, by Jeff Chester and Kathryn Montgomery

• Paper: Apolitical Political Technologies? Nonpartisanship and the Acceptable Use of Political Technologies, by Fenwick McKelvey

DISCRIMINATION, DISINFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA

• Paper: Disinformation Optomized: Gaming Techno-Commercial Infrastructure to Amplify Junk News, by Samantha Bradshaw

DIGITAL CAMPAIGNING IN CONTEXT: MYTHS AND REALITIES

• Paper: Building the Myth of the Data Campaign, by Jessica Baldwin-Philippi

• Slides: Building the Myth of the Data Campaign, by Jessica Baldwin-Philippi

• Paper: WhatsApp and Political Instability in Brazil: Targeted messages and Political Radicalization, by Rafael Evangelista and Fernanda Bruno

• Slides: WhatsApp and Political Instability in Brazil: Targeted messages and Political Radicalization, by Rafael Evangelista and Fernanda Bruno

• Paper: Wild, Wild Country. The Institutional Context of Digital Data use by Provincial Parties in Quebec, by Éric Montigny, Thierry Giasson, and Philippe Dubois

• Slides: Wild, Wild Country. The Institutional Context of Digital Data use by Provincial Parties in Quebec, by Éric Montigny, Thierry Giasson, and Philippe Dubois

REGULATING POLITICAL MICRO-TARGETING AND MANIPULATION

• Paper: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: A "European Approach" to Tackling Challenges of Disinformation and Political Manipulation, by Iva Nenadic

• Slides: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: A "European Approach" to Tackling Challenges of Disinformation and Political Manipulation, by Iva Nenadic

• Paper: The Regulation of Online Political Microtargeting in Europe, by Tom Dobber, Ronan Ó Fathaigh, and Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

• Slides: The Regulation of Online Political Microtargeting in Europe, by Tom Dobber, Ronan Ó Fathaigh, and Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

• Paper: Voter Preferences, Voter Manipulation, Voter Analytics: Policy Options for Less Surveillance and More Autonomy, by Jacquelyn Burkell and Priscilla M. Regan