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Data trusts could allay our privacy fears
The 1832 reform act was a response to social change in the evolving industrial landscape of pre-Victorian Britain. It introduced new parliamentary constituencies. It eliminated "rotten boroughs": small constituencies controlled by a handful of voters. It also gave the vote to those men with "freehold ownership of land". Votes to those men who own freehold on land is distant from universal suffrage, but the freehold land movement soon developed.