Conservatives ignore the Data Protection Act with their camaigning iPhone App?
Those tech-savvy Tories (you know - the ones who helped push through the ill-conceived Digital Economy Bill) have released a free iPhone app - The Conservative Party General Election App.
One feature of the app, called "Call a Friend", provides you with a list of your iPhone Contacts for you to call and try to persuade them to vote Tory. After the call, you get a form to fill out about your friend's voting intentions and then email back to Tory High Command. Sounds dodgy?
Well it looks like it may be. This blog post points out that this harvesting of personal data, without consent and the requisite privacy notice, seems to contravene the Data Protection Act...
