Priya Dev highlights the challenges individuals face when dealing with political spam emails during the 2025 federal election campaign. Despite major political parties being exempt from privacy laws, Dev believes her data was leaked through past online transactions. Her efforts to trace data origins reveal a complicated web involving multiple data brokers. Dev's experience resonates with many Australians who, like her, are plagued by unsolicited communications and underscores the need for greater transparency in how personal information is harvested and used by political parties.
Tracking down how organisations gain access to individual contact information is really hard with political parties because they just ignore you, Dev says.
If I can find out the origin of my data from this mission, it would be really amazing.
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