The Liberal Party of Canada was in a B.C. courtroom Monday to commence its opposition to provincial privacy commissioners investigating how its party and others handle your personal information, should it get a hold of it.
The Liberal party has since made submissions to B.C. Supreme Court, including on behalf of co-applicants, the Conservative Party of Canada and New Democratic Party of Canada. Green said “access requests could impede the political process” and the “main goal is to advance participation in elections.” The OIPC has not ruled on the merits of the complaint; however; that investigation and decision was put on pause after the application for judicial review was made.
According to submissions, the amendments would require privacy policies for parties become publicly available, drafted in plain language, discuss what information is collected and used, require “appropriate” protection measures and prohibit selling information, among other clauses.The complainants opposed further adjournment in their response filed by Jason Herbert at DLA Piper and Young Park and Ron Davis of Fogler, Rubinoff LLP.
And, stated the lawyers, “the adjournment requested by the will indefinitely delay the OIPC’s investigation and adjudication of the complainants’ complaints against the , causing substantial prejudice to the complainants.”