Ann Cavoukian

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. She is presently the Executive Director of Ryerson University’s Privacy and Big Data Institute. Appointed as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ont. in 1997, Dr. Cavoukian served an unprecedented three terms. There she created Privacy by Design, a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into design, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In October 2010, International Privacy Regulators unanimously passed a Resolution recognizing Privacy by Design as an essential component of privacy protection. Since then, PbD has been translated into 38 languages.
Dr. Cavoukian has received numerous awards recognizing her leadership in privacy. Her mantra of “banish zero-sum” enables multiple interests to be served simultaneously.
Contributions by Ann Cavoukian
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Surveillance and Privacy by Design
Speaker at Virtual Phoenix KnowledgeNet: May 27, 2020 -
The Need to Embed Privacy by Design into All Things Connected: IoT, Big Data, AI — privacy engineering at its best!
Speaker at Phoenix KnowledgeNet: March 20, 2019 -
Closing General Session
Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2018 -
Privacy by Design: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Disruptive Technology
Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2016 -
Big Data and Privacy Protection: Why They Can Be Reconciled
Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2016 -
Privacy, Security, and Ethics in the Age of Big Data – Guidance through the Maze
Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2016 -
Privacy Policies Are Not Enough: We Need Software Transparency
Privacy Perspectives -
More Privacy Paternalism: “We Know What’s Best for You”
Privacy Perspectives -
So Glad You Didn’t Say That! A Response to Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Privacy Perspectives -
Consent and Personal Control Are Not Things of the Past
Privacy Perspectives