Let's look at this example. It's an interesting example. If you apply privacy law, strictly speaking, consent has not been obtained. Therefore, the party in question should not receive the information. But in order to have a communication between a party and an elector, I think I'd be interested in looking at that situation, the first communication. A friend says to party A, my friend B may be interested in hearing from you. So the party has information about friend B. One of two things happens: Either friend B says, “Yes, I'm interested”, and then the communication continues; or friend B says, “I'm not interested”, in which case I think a proper application of privacy laws would have the information being set aside and the communication stops.
The first part of the sequence may be an example where context may lead to a different application in terms of the outcome, even though the privacy principles would apply.