Vance Lockton, CIPP/C, CIPM

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Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Senior Technology Policy Advisor

Vance Lockton is the Manager, Technology Policy and Strategic Initiatives for the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. He and his team focus on issues such as the proposed drivers of modern government (such as digital identity and artificial intelligence), use of advanced technology by and for law enforcement, the application of PETs and other means to enable socially beneficial sharing and use of data, and public sector cybersecurity. Vance is also the program manager for projects and activities under the IPC’s Strategic Priorities.

In the privacy world since 2008, Vance spent 7 years in a variety of roles for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and was Manager of Digital Governance for Waterfront Toronto during its Sidewalk Labs/Quayside intelligent community project. He has an M.Sc. in Computer Science and an M.P.P. in Public Policy, and holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional/Canada (CIPP/C) and the Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) from the IAPP.

 

Contributions by Vance Lockton

  • Generative Governance: The OPC and Artificial Intelligence
    Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2024
  • Ease the Tension: Leverage Powerful New Technologies & Respect Data Minimization
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024
  • Good Governance for Anonymized Data: An Interactive Exercise
    Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2023
  • Good Governance for Anonymized Data: An Interactive Exercise
    Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2023
  • Avoiding Privacy Storms in The Cloud
    Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2022
  • Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2020 - Canceled
  • Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2020 - Canceled
  • Privacy Hot Business Risks
    Speaker at IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2019