The Globe and Mail reports that last week's departure of British Columbia's privacy chief, David Loukidelis, has left the province's privacy enforcement apparatus up in the air. Loukidelis vacated his post as information and privacy commissioner to become BC's deputy attorney general, prompting Mary Carlson of the privacy office to write to the Speaker of the House that, "The office has been forced to refrain from any activity requiring delegated authority, which includes opening appeal files and privacy complaints...[and] policing the timelines of government responses to access requests." Carlson is concerned that, according to counsel, the commission has no legal authority to act on privacy matters without a commissioner.
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