I Thought Electoral Roll Data Was To Be Used To Run Elections. I Must Be Very Na ïve.

A series of three articles appeared last week:First we had.Afterpay accessing electoral roll data under laws designed to target terrorism, money launderingBy Eryk Bagshaw24 January 2019 — 12:01amThe confidential electoral roll data of more than 16 million Australians is being used by buy now, pay later providers, debt collectors, betting agencies and marketing firms to identify individual consumers. The Age and Sydney Morning Herald can reveal data obtained by debt-collectors and data marketing firm Illion, formerly known as Dun& Bradstreet, is used by $4 billion stock market darling Afterpay and other providers to match identities to addresses as it processes customers at thousands of suburban shops including David Jones, Officeworks and Nike.The electoral data, designed to be used under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act, is accessed by Afterpay and other firms via Perceptive Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of Illion.Electoral data contains... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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