Yukon commissioner reminds public of new privacy act changes

In a blog post observing Right to Know Week, Yukon Information and Privacy Commissioner Diane McLeod-McKay reminded Yukoners of several new personal information provisions in the territory's new Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, which went into effect April 2021. These include specifically assigning the head of a public body as responsible for compliance and shortening the length of extensions for information requests from 60 days to 15 days. Additionally, the ATIPPA applies to 129 public bodies compared to only 23 bodies under the last Act.