About the IAPP

Ann Cavoukian

Ryerson University

Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence

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

• Privacy by Design: More relevant today than ever
  Speaker at Virtual Bermuda KnowledgeNet: 13 May 2021
• 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 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