BC Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has announced that she has invited six people from both the public and private sector to serve on an advisory board to help identify and address emerging privacy problems, CANOE reports. As most of her office's staff "are fully utilized resolving important access disputes and privacy complaints," Denham explained, "I want to enhance the office's other vital responsibilities, such as public education, policy work, research and providing expert guidance to public and private sector." The advisory board members include a former provincial privacy commissioner, two academics, a former assistant privacy commissioner, a privacy consultant and a former police complaints commissioner.
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