I'll go back to what I said about the EU. I think we should be interested in a Privacy Commissioner who understands privacy from the perspective of human rights. In the process of writing a paper, I was just reminded that privacy didn't make its way explicitly into the charter. Part of the conciliation for that was the creation of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Someone vested with the responsibility of administering quasi-constitutional rights has to be somebody who views privacy in the context of constitutional rights from a human rights perspective and prioritizes that perspective in decision-making.