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From: LEGALE Eric <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:54 AM Subject: The French Data Protection authority takes an interest in political communication To: The French Data Protection authority takes an interest in political communication With the advent of new communication technologies, CNIL (the French Data Protection Authority) will update its recommendation passed in 2006 on political communication. According to CNIL, the last French election campaigns and especially the American ones have used innovative political communication practices relying on the development of ICT. In 2006, at the dawn of presidential and legislative elections, the French authority for privacy and personal data protection had outlined a certain number of practices, such as the management of internal data of political parties (which, according to article 8 of the Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978, dont need to be declared and dont require the common agreement of the party members), the organization of sponsorships and political communication operations : forbidding the use of local administrations files and local community files, use of the electoral rolls and commercial files... Continue reading See: http://bit.ly/aajgGv A website to keep track of ones political opponents It is called the "Accountability Project" and its website has just been launched by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to fight "against misinformation, lies and double-speak". The idea is simple: citizens can document Republican candidates and their claims and public statements at local events, as well as their campaign tactics. They are encouraged to film with anything that can record video - from a cell phone to a video camera - what candidates say at public events, and then submit the videos to the DNC-run site. In playing a complete transparency everyday citizens can see what their Republican candidates for office are saying and candidates themselves will see that theres a cost to their dishonest statements. Continue reading See: http://bit.ly/dxD62N Read also: Digital economy rankings 2010: Beyond e-readiness Does Internet deepen the civic divide? If you dont want to receive this newsletter, please send me an email with Remove in the object. More information Contact Newsletter Categories e-Petition e-Voting Facebook Figures News Participating Budget Press crisis ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/3nWhPcKC2hxXFFrTYT2zsj For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
