Anita Fineberg, CIPP/C

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ANITA D FINEBERG Barrister & Solicitor

Health Lawyer, Consultant, Professor, Author

Anita Fineberg is a sole practitioner and consultant in Toronto specializing in the areas of privacy, access to information, data security and information management, predominantly in the health sector. She provides advice to both public and private sector entities on the privacy and security requirements of

EHR/EMR systems, mobile applications for health, remote condition monitoring and data governance. Anita is a passionate advocate for the principles of Privacy by Design, believing that the adoption of a

proactive approach to privacy best serves her clients and their patients.



She has practiced privacy law for over 30 years, having spent seven years with the Office of the

Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario and three years as counsel to the Ontario Ministry of

Health and Long-Term Care. Prior to establishing her own practice, Anita was Corporate Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer to IMS Health Canada, the Canadian affiliate of IMS Health (now IQVIA). She holds a B.A. (Hons. Psychobiology) degree from Queen’s University, a LL.B. degree from the University of Toronto, and is a designated Certified Information Privacy Professional/Canada. 



Anita is a member of the Privacy and Advocacy Sections of the Canadian Bar Association and the Privacy,

Health, Technology and Administrative Law Sections of the Ontario Bar Association. She is also a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Canadian Association of Management Consultants, as well as HIMSS (the American Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) and Digital Health Canada (formerly COACH), Canada’s Health Informatics Association. Anita completed a three-year term as the public member on the Health Technology Expert Review Panel (HTERP), an advisory body to the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). 



Anita is a frequent speaker, workshop leader and author on the privacy and security of electronic health

records systems and technology and is an adjunct professor at the Ryerson University Chang School of

Continuing Education for which she developed and teaches courses in Health Information Privacy and

Access as well as Applied Concepts in Privacy and Access. She is also the Program Advisor for the Chang

Certificate in Privacy, Access and Information Management. Anita is a founding member of the HealthLawyerNetwork (HLN) http://www.healthlawyernetwork.ca/. 

 

Contributions by Anita Fineberg

  • Synthetic Data in the Real World: Applying and Regulating New PETs in Canada
    Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2022