Overview
- An Edmonton judge granted an injunction Thursday that forced the Centurion Project to pull a searchable database containing personal details on roughly 2.9 million Alberta voters.
- Investigators matched unique fake names embedded in official lists to a 2025 copy issued to the Republican Party of Alberta, and Elections Alberta said its own systems were not breached.
- Alberta RCMP opened a criminal investigation Thursday, and the court ordered Centurion to disclose within four days who created, shared, or accessed the dataset.
- Journalists who examined the app’s backend found names, home addresses, unique elector IDs, middle names, and more than two million phone numbers, exposing information about public officials and other at‑risk people.
- Alberta’s privacy commissioner urged bringing political parties under the province’s privacy law, while Premier Danielle Smith called for accountability and said potential legislative changes will be weighed after the probes.