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There has been a remarkable consistency in the number of requests for review and complaints made to our office in recent years under the two laws we oversee, the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). In fact, the total number of FIPPA and PIPA requests and complaints we received during the fiscal year covered by this ...

The time to reform BC’s private sector privacy law is now. BC needs to clarify, strengthen, and enhance privacy protection to meet citizens’ expectations of personal information privacy in a new all-encompassing digital environment.

This document provides the Committee with a brief history of private sector privacy law and a discussion of the current challenges to its effectiveness due to technological change and online security risks. It then gives a general overview of PIPA and the experience to date of the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (“OIPC”) in overseeing compliance with PIPA. The last section of ...

I am pleased to present the 2019-20 annual report for the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia. Past reports have highlighted the incredible pace of technological change and its impact on privacy and information rights in BC. During this past fiscal reporting year, my office has witnessed an exponential surge in this trajectory.

Fairness, transparency, and accountability are among our democracy’s most important values. Our laws should reflect these. Our provincial access and privacy laws attempt to do so, but like most laws they are, as they should be, a work in progress. And progress does not always follow a straight line.

The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act guarantees ordinary citizens the right of access to most information (anything recorded in print or electronic form) in the hands of the more than 2,000 public bodies (primarily provincial and local government agencies) covered by FIPPA. Democracy works best when government is fully accountable to the people it serves. Making access to ...

Thank you once again for the opportunity to meet and discuss the work of the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and the Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists for British Columbia. Providing this update in addition to our yearly submission will, I hope, give a deeper understanding of the work we do.