{"id":263375,"date":"2013-02-01T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/issues\/data-point\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T21:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:27:24","slug":"data-point","status":"publish","type":"series","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/2013\/02\/data-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing furor about\u00a0apparent abuse of robo-calls\u00a0in the last federal\u00a0election has raised wide\u00a0concern about the impact of new technologies on\u00a0election campaigns. The\u00a0Chief Electoral Officer\u00a0is expected to report to\u00a0Parliament this spring\u00a0on how to respond to\u00a0the increasing ability of\u00a0political parties to harness\u00a0data technology for their\u00a0own ends. And, as the\u00a0following articles show,\u00a0the rise of data based\u00a0campaigns raises questions\u00a0that go far beyond\u00a0the relatively clunky\u00a0technology of robo-calls.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-caption\">Photo: Shutterstock by Creativa Images<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing furor about\u00a0apparent abuse of robo-calls\u00a0in the last federal\u00a0election has raised wide\u00a0concern about the impact of new technologies on\u00a0election campaigns. The\u00a0Chief Electoral Officer\u00a0is expected to report to\u00a0Parliament this spring\u00a0on how to respond to\u00a0the increasing ability of\u00a0political parties to harness\u00a0data technology for their\u00a0own ends. And, as the\u00a0following articles show,\u00a0the rise of data based\u00a0campaigns raises questions\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":246687,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9382,9383],"tags":[],"irpp-category":[4337],"series-content":[],"irpp-tag":[],"class_list":["post-263375","series","type-series","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dossiers","category-sciences-et-technologies","irpp-category-science-et-technologie"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Data point<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What political parties can learn about you... and why robo-calls may be yesterday&#039;s scandal.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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