About the IAPP

Pierre-Luc Déziel is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at Université Laval. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from McGill University and a double master's degree in political theory and history and international security from Sciences Po Paris. He completed his doctoral thesis in law entitled "The Protection of Privacy in the Age of Biosecurity" at the Université de Montréal in 2015. He also completed a study period in art and architecture at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. 

Professor Déziel is responsible for the “Ethics, confidentiality and social acceptability” axis of the Intelligence and Data Institute (IID), co-responsible for the “Law, cyberjustice and cybersecurity” axis of the International Observatory on the social impacts of artificial intelligence and digital technology (OBVIA) and a regular researcher at the Cyberjustice Laboratory of the University of Montreal and at the Center for Research in Big Data (CRDM) of Laval University.

Professor Déziel's research focuses primarily on the impact of new technologies on the right to privacy and the protection of personal information. This research is funded by, among others, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Quebec Ministry of Justice.