Using Personal Data in Ukrainian Elections

May 25

Written By IWPR

Campaigns can now use social media to target potential voters.

WEBINAR DESCRIPTION

Tetyana Bohdanova discusses how important personal data has become in recent years during political elections. Bohdanova relies on research she conducted in 2019 on how authorities used personal data in Ukraine during the campaign period in the leadup to Parliamentary and Presidential elections to show how data can be used to the advantage of political groups. She brings into question the issue of privacy and manipulation by looking at how President Zelenskyy’s campaign in particular was able to successfully employ social media to target voters on the basis of 33 categories that included such classifications as gender, age, profession, etc.

AUTHORS

Tetyana Bohdanova is an elections and civil society development specialist and a researcher of technology’s impact on democracy. She has just completed a Fellowship at the Prague Civil Society Centre, where she investigated the use of personal data in elections. Prior to that, Tetyana has worked with NGOs in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and served as a Legislative Education and Practice Program Fellow with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, DC. Tetyana holds a M.A. in Eastern European Studies from the Free University of Berlin and a B.A. in Business Administration from the International Christian University-Kyiv.

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Languages: English

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