Papers delivered at the Big Data Surveillance (BDS) 2019 workshop on Data-Driven Elections, hosted by Colin Bennett and David Lyon in Victoria by project partner the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC (OIPCBC)(link is external), have been published in a special issue of Internet Policy Review(link is external), an international journal for academics, civil society advocates, entrepreneurs, the media, and policymakers.
The workshop on Data-Driven Elections was prompted by the massive increase in political use of personal data during elections, as vividly evidenced by the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook (CA-F) scandals during 2019.
The papers, by researchers in Canada, the US, Europe and Brazil, address the efficacy of voter analytics; the accountability of the major social media platforms; the contemporary regulatory responses in Europe and elsewhere; the impact on local party organizations; and larger questions about the capture, analysis and use of personal data on the electorate during, and between, election campaigns.
The papers from the workshop can be found at:
https://policyreview.info/data-driven-elections(link is external)
The Surveillance Studies Centre
c/o David Murakami Wood
Department of Criminology
University of Ottawa
Canada