According to senior Nationalists, the SNP's database system will give the pro-independence camp a huge advantage over its opponents when the independence referendum campaign gets under way.
Even if the other parties got their act together now, they would be several years behind the SNP in terms of information-gathering, it is claimed. There could also be barriers to the different parties sharing information under data protection rules, even if they put historic rivalries behind them and wished to co-operate in this way.
