OpenAI argues the production order is overbroad
OpenAIPetitioner challenging the production order and investigation in B.C. Supreme Court, filing as OpenAI OpCo LLC
In its petition to the B.C. Supreme Court, OpenAI calls the production order overbroad and unnecessary, saying it demands documents and information that are irrelevant to the investigation and far exceed the commissioner's statutory mandate.
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B.C.'s Personal Information Protection Act authorizes the commissioner's order compelling OpenAI to produce the information sought in its investigation.
“The Order is overbroad and unnecessary”
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OpenAI challenges B.C. privacy commissioner's Tumbler Ridge production order and investigation
OpenAI has petitioned B.C. Supreme Court for judicial review of the provincial privacy commissioner's production order and to challenge the related investigation, which concerns OpenAI's use of personal information in connection with the Tumbler Ridge shooting. Reports quoting the petition say OpenAI argues the order and investigation exceed the commissioner's legal authority. The commissioner's office says B.C.'s Personal Information Protection Act gives it jurisdiction over organizations handling the personal information of people in the province, and describes the steps that led to the order.
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OpenAI's petition asking the court to quash the commissioner's investigation or, in the alternative, Order P26-16. It sets out OpenAI's account of its correspondence with the commissioner's office from February to July 2026, summarizes the order's 19 requests and states its legal grounds. The court registry provides the document for a fee; it is not posted on a public website.
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The report quotes OpenAI's objections to the investigation and document demand.
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The report gives additional passages from the October 26 petition.
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The petition says the new investigation duplicates a joint investigation by Canadian privacy regulators that concluded on May 6, 2026, and describes the order as requiring extensive document production and compelling an OpenAI representative to answer questions.
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It says the demand includes all of the shooter's chat logs, which it says were already provided to law enforcement and to the province, and all of OpenAI's records on whether to refer the account to police. It argues that this exceeds the scope of section 38 of the Personal Information Protection Act, violates section 8 of the Charter and conflicts with the commissioner's own privacy obligations.
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The case-level conduct is the commissioner's investigation and production order. OpenAI's petition offers substantive legal criticism of the order, arguing that it is overbroad, unnecessary and beyond the commissioner's statutory mandate, and asks the court to quash it.
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The Dispute Index. "OpenAI argues the production order is overbroad". First published: 2026-10-30. Last updated: 2026-10-30. https://disputeindex.com/events/7139-in-its-petition-to-the-b-c-supreme