Prince Edward Island (PEI) is getting a new privacy commissioner, The Guardian reports. Karen Rose has been chosen by the legislative management to be appointed PEI information and privacy commissioner, the report states. She was actually the province’s first privacy commissioner in 2002, but she left the post in 2005 citing personal reasons. Rose will replace Maria MacDonald, whose five-year term has expired. “The commissioner will accept appeals … from applicants or third parties who are not satisfied with the response they receive from a public body as a result of an access to information request made under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act,” the government site for the commissioner states.
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