US EditionElections Alberta granted injunction to pull down electoral list posted publicly by separatist group
Elections Alberta says the alleged leak exposed names, addresses and phone numbers after a separatist group built a searchable app from voter data.
- On Thursday, April 30, 2026, an Edmonton judge granted Elections Alberta an emergency injunction against a separatist group that published the private information of nearly three million voters online.
- Court of King’s Bench Justice John Little ordered the Centurion Project, a pro-sovereignty group, to immediately remove a public, searchable database containing the names, addresses, and unique identifier numbers of every registered elector in the province.
- An investigation revealed that the sensitive list had been legitimately provided to the Republican Party of Alberta—a pro-independence party—which then allegedly shared it with the Centurion Project, violating strict privacy laws that prohibit the distribution of voter data to unauthorized third parties.
- Elections Alberta identified the source of the leak using "salted" data—fictitious names embedded in specific lists—allowing them to trace the exact dataset back to the political party that originally received it in June 2025.
- The group’s organizer, David Parker, was served with the injunction in person during a Wednesday evening event; the court order now requires the group to hand over the names of every person who registered to access the database on their website.
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Alberta premier says law changes to be assessed after probes into voter list breach
Premier Danielle Smith says her government will look at new legislation depending on what comes out of investigations into claims a separatist group breached the personal information of nearly three million Albertans.
Elections Alberta investigates after the names of millions of voters published online
It may have been the fringy Republican Party of Alberta (RPA) that got caught letting data from its copy of Alberta’s 2.9-million-name voters’ list be published online in violation of the law, but it is the law-bending style of politics embedded in this province by the United Conservative Party (UCP) that made such a breach inevitable. Meanwhile, it’s the giant sucking sound south of the border known as Artificial Intelligence that makes it a p…
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Alberta voter info database shut down amidst probes of alleged data breach
EDMONTON — A database belonging to an Alberta separatist group was shut down Thursday as elections officials and Mounties probe an alleged voter-list privacy breach affecting up to three million Albertans.
Court Orders Alberta Independence Group to Remove Public Voter Database Posted Online
An Alberta judge has ordered a separatist advocacy group to remove a publicly accessible voter database containing personal information tied to roughly 2.9 million Albertans. Justice John Little issued the order April 30 after Elections Alberta sought urgent court intervention, alleging the voter information was distributed in breach of Alberta election law. The list contains voter names, addresses, and voter identification dating back to last y…
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