Michael P. McEvoy

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Michael McEvoy was appointed Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (BC) by unanimous motion of the Legislative Assembly and began his six-year term as an independent Officer of the Legislature on 1 April 2018. Immediately prior to his appointment, Commissioner McEvoy was seconded from his position as Deputy Commissioner at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC), a role he had held since 2013, to the Information Commissioner’s Office in the United Kingdom. From September 2017 to March 2018, he helped lead the ICO’s investigation into Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. Since taking office at the OIPC, the Commissioner has embarked on a series of investigations and programmes aimed at strengthening access to information and protection of privacy, including a ground-breaking investigation report into how BC’s political parties collect and use the personal information of BC voters.