ISRI Seminar Series

The Engineering & Public Policy Department and the PhD Program in
Computation, Organizations & Society present:

Ann Cavoukian
Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario

Building in Privacy from the Bottom Up:  
How to Preserve Privacy in a Security-Centric World

Thursday, 4 November 2004, 12 pm NSH 1507
lunch will be provided

ABSTRACT

One of the significant challenges in this security-centric world is to
introduce privacy functionalities into the technologies and systems
that are used to collect and manage personal information. This
presentation will examine the landscape through recent survey results
and explore avenues to build the privacy design correlates into
technology.
  
BIO

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the top privacy experts in
the world. An avowed believer in the role that technology can play in
protecting privacy, Ann's leadership has seen her office develop a
number of tools and procedures to ensure privacy is protected in
Ontario - and around the globe. Ann is Ontario's first Information and
Privacy Commissioner to be reappointed for a second term. Initially
appointed in 1997, her role in overseeing the operations of the
freedom of information and privacy laws in Canada's most populous
province was extended to 2009. Like the provincial auditor, she serves
as an officer of the legislature, independent of the government of the
day.

A leading privacy publication recently announced that it had selected
Ann as The Privacy Manager of the Year for 2003.  Ann is also the
published author of two groundbreaking books on privacy - "Who Knows:
Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World" (1997), written with
Don Tapscott and "The Privacy Payoff: How Successful Businesses Build
Customer Trust" (2002), written with Tyler Hamilton.

Ann joined the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner in
1987, during its start-up phase, as its first Director of
Compliance. In 1990, she was appointed Assistant Commissioner. Prior
to joining the IPC, Ann headed the Research Services Branch for the
provincial Attorney General. Ann received her M.A. and Ph.D. in
Psychology from the University of Toronto, where she specialized in
criminology and law, and lectured on psychology and the criminal
justice system.