Saskatchewan

Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC)

The IPC is an independent office of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly, combining access-to-information and privacy oversight in a single office. It informs the public of their access and privacy rights, resolves and makes recommendations on appeals of public bodies' access decisions, investigates and resolves privacy complaints, and comments on proposed laws and policies affecting access and privacy. It oversees provincial government institutions, local authorities such as municipalities, and health information trustees, but has no jurisdiction over the federal government, unions, non-profits, or the general private sector — Saskatchewan has no private-sector equivalent to BC's or Alberta's PIPA, so PIPEDA applies to Saskatchewan's private sector by default.

Laws and regulations administered:

• The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP) — governs access to records and personal information handling by provincial government institutions.
• The Local Authority Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (LA FOIP) — the equivalent statute for local authorities such as municipalities, school boards, and post-secondary institutions.
• The Health Information Protection Act (HIPA) — governs the collection, use, and disclosure of personal health information by health-sector trustees.

Other provincial legislation of note

• The Privacy Act, RSS 1978, c P-24 — a civil tort statute creating a right of action for invasion of privacy, amended in 2018 and 2022 to add remedies for the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, including altered images. Not administered by the IPC.
• The Fiduciaries Access to Digital Information Act, SS 2020, c 6 — governs a fiduciary's or executor's access to a deceased or incapacitated person's digital accounts and information. Not administered by the IPC.
• Bill 34, The Cyberstalking and Coercive Control Act (SS 2025, c 23) — received Royal Assent December 4, 2025. Amends The Victims of Interpersonal Violence Act to add coercive or controlling behaviour and cyberstalking/online harassment to the legal definition of interpersonal violence, explicitly naming unauthorized geo-location tracking devices and cellphone monitoring software as recognized abuse, and giving victims access to existing remedies such as Emergency Intervention Orders. Not contested — government and advocacy groups (PATHS, Safe Child Saskatchewan) were aligned in support.

Pending and proposed legislation

• Saskatchewan currently has no mandatory privacy-breach reporting requirement for public bodies (breaches are reported on an ad hoc basis). In an April 2026 briefing, the IPC recommended Saskatchewan adopt mandatory breach-reporting rules similar to those introduced in Ontario's Bill 194. No bill has been tabled.
• Bill 619, Consumer Protection and Business Practices (Banning Unfair A.I. Pricing) Amendment Act — a private member's bill (NDP MLA Brittney Senger), introduced April 15, 2026 and at First Reading as of this writing. It would prohibit AI/algorithmic "surveillance pricing" — dynamically adjusting retail prices based on tracked consumer data — modelled on similar Manitoba legislation.

This bill is contested. The NDP frames it as protection against AI-driven price discrimination using personal data; the government's position, raised in question period, is that this is better addressed federally through the Competition Bureau, with one government member reportedly calling it "a solution in search of a problem" and asserting there are no documented instances of surveillance pricing in the province (this specific attribution could not be independently confirmed).

• No Saskatchewan-specific AI-regulation bill has been identified. The IPC's 2025–2026 annual report lists AI privacy education as a priority area but does not propose specific legislative reform.