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As information commissioner for the UK, Elizabeth Denham is responsible for ensuring information rights are in the public interest and leads the office dealing with the Data Protection Act 2018 – the UK’s implementation of the EU’s GDPR law.

Prior to becoming information commissioner, Denham was the information and privacy commissioner for British Columbia responsible for compliance with public and private sector privacy legislation and access to information law.