Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.
Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the leading privacy experts in the world. An avowed believer in the role that technology can play in protecting privacy, Dr. Cavoukian’s leadership has seen her office develop a number of tools and procedures to ensure that privacy is protected in Ontario, and around the world.
Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.
Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the leading privacy experts in the world. An avowed believer in the role that technology can play in protecting privacy, Dr. Cavoukian’s leadership has seen her office develop a number of tools and procedures to ensure that privacy is protected in Ontario, and around the world. Dr. Cavoukian is Ontario’s first Information & Privacy Commissioner to be re-appointed for an unprecedented third term. Initially appointed in 1997, her role in overseeing the operations of the freedom of information and privacy laws in Canada’s most populous province has been extended to 2014. Like the Auditor General, she serves as an Officer of the Legislature, independent of the government of the day. Dr. Cavoukian also serves as the Chair of the Identity, Privacy and Security Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Noted for her seminal work on Privacy Enhancing Technologies in 1995, her mantra of “Privacy by Design” seeks to embed privacy into the design specifications of technology, thereby achieving the strongest protections.
Dr. Cavoukian’s published works include Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World (1997), written with Don Tapscott, The Privacy Payoff: How Successful Businesses Build Customer Trust (2002), written with Tyler Hamilton, and Privacy by Design…Take the Challenge (2009), an anthology of PbD Papers produced by the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner.
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Keynote: Beware of "Surveillance by Design:" Standing Up for Freedom and Privacy
Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.
Information & Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada
In this day and age of 24/7 online expanded connectivity and immediate access to digitized information, new analytic tools and algorithms now make it possible, not only to link a number with an identifiable individual, but also to combine diverse information from multiple sources, ultimately creating a detailed, personal profile. We have now reached a point where information that previously was not identifiable, has become identifiable through an ever-expanding web of “data linkages,” serving as pointers to personally-identifiable information.
The expected re-introduction of federal “lawful access” bills in Parliament, that if passed in their original form, would provide police with much greater ability to access and track information about identifiable individuals via the communications technologies that we use every day, such as the Internet, smart phones, and other mobile devices, and at times, without a warrant or any judicial authorization. This represents a looming system of “Surveillance by Design,” that should concern us all in a free and democratic society.
Fortunately, Commissioner Cavoukian has a solution. By proactively embedding the principles of Privacy by Design (PbD) into the development of new technologies, privacy will continue to be strongly protected. Commissioner Cavoukian will discuss how PbD can accommodate all legitimate interests and objectives in a “positive sum,” win-win manner, while laying to rest the dated “zero-sum” mindset that we must sacrifice privacy for security. We do not.
Alan Borovoy
Alan Borovoy was General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association from May, 1968 until June, 2009. Prior to coming to CCLA, Alan worked with other human rights and civil liberties organizations such as the National Committee for Human Rights of the Canadian Labour Congress, the Ontario Labour Committee for Human Rights, and the Toronto & District Labour Committee for Human Rights.
Alan Borovoy
Alan Borovoy was General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association from May, 1968 until June, 2009. Prior to coming to CCLA, Alan worked with other human rights and civil liberties organizations such as the National Committee for Human Rights of the Canadian Labour Congress, the Ontario Labour Committee for Human Rights, and the Toronto & District Labour Committee for Human Rights.
As General Counsel of CCLA, Alan made presentations to public inquiries and gave testimony before parliamentary committees on issues such as mandatory drug-testing in the workplace, wiretapping, and police race-relations. His community organizing activities included delegations to the federal and provincial governments on issues of capital punishment, religious education in the public schools, the War Measures Act, campus speech codes, and national security and intelligence.
In addition to his work as General Counsel, Alan was a fortnightly columnist for the Toronto Star from 1992-1996. Other media work included appearances on many public affairs programs, and on open-line television and radio programs. He is published widely across Canada, and is the author of The New Anti-Liberals, Uncivil Obedience: The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator and When Freedoms Collide: The Case for Our Civil Liberties, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 1988. He has also given lectures and public addresses to students, human rights organizations, and policing agencies in Canada and abroad.
Alan has been a visiting professor at the faculties of law at Dalhousie University and the University of Windsor, and a part-time lecturer at the University of Toronto Faculty of Social Work and York University’s political science department.
Alan received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1953, and his LL.B. from the University of Toronto in 1956. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1958. He has also received four Honourary Doctor of Laws Degrees, the Law Society Medal from the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1989, an Award of Merit from the City of Toronto in 1982, and was inscribed in the Honour Roll of the aboriginal people of Treaty Number 3 in 1991. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982.
Special Welcome by A. Alan Borovoy
General Counsel, Emeritus, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
John Villasenor
John Villasenor is a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.
John Villasenor, Ph.D.
John Villasenor is a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research addresses the nature and growing impact of digital information. He has performed fundamental technical research on the systems and methods for information acquisition, processing, storage, and delivery. In addition, he has been at the forefront of examining the resulting social implications, with a particular focus on security and privacy.
Dr. Villasenor has published well over 100 technical articles and has also written for Scientific American, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Los Angeles Times. His recent publications at the technology/policy intersection have considered issues includingsurveillance by authoritarian regimes, wireless access rights, intellectual property, tracking of illicit digital financial transactions, drones, infrastructure security, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. In addition, he has been interviewed by NPR, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Congressional Quarterly, the Christian Science Monitor, Fast Company, and Popular Mechanics.
Dr. Villasenor holds a B.S. degree from the University of Virginia, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.
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The Impact of Surveillance on …
Dissent, Freedom, and Social Change
Professor John Villasenor
The Brookings Institution and University of California, Los Angeles
Technology is expanding (and its costs declining) so rapidly that all too soon, governments will be capable of recording almost everything said and done within their reach – and storing the information indefinitely. We are at the dawn of an era of pervasive surveillance. This will fundamentally change the dynamics of dissent, freedom, and social change. Hear John Villasenor’s predictions about where the technology is headed, and the resulting challenges in addressing the very legitimate concerns of both the privacy and security communities in this new era.
Dr. Ron Deibert
Ron Deibert (PhD, University of British Columbia) is Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.
Ron Deibert, Ph.D.
Ron Deibert (PhD, University of British Columbia) is Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary research and development hothouse working at the intersection of the Internet, global security, and human rights. He is a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor projects.
Deibert was one of the founders and (former) VP of global policy and outreach for Psiphon Inc.
Deibert has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on issues related technology, media, and world politics. He was one of the authors of the Tracking Ghostnet report that documented an alleged cyber-espionage network affecting over 1200 computers in 103 countries, and the Shadows in the Cloud report, which analyzed a cloud-based espionage network. He is a co-editor of three major volumes with MIT Press: Access Denied: The practice and policy of Internet Filtering (2008), Access Controlled: The shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace (2010), and Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace (2011). He is the author of Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communications in World Order Transformation (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), and the forthcoming Ghost in the Machine: the battle for the future of cyberspace (with Rafal Rohozinski).
He has been a consultant and advisor to governments, international organizations, and civil society/NGOs on issues relating to cyber security, cyber crime, online free expression, and access to information. He presently serves on the editorial board of the journals International Political Sociology, Security Dialogue, Explorations in Media Ecology, Review of Policy Research, and Astropolitics.
Deibert is on the advisory board of Access Now, Privacy International, and is a member of the board of directors of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper.
Deibert was awarded the University of Toronto Outstanding Teaching Award (2002), the Northrop Frye Distinguished Teaching and Research Award (2002), and the Carolyn Tuohy Award for Public Policy (2010). He was a Ford Foundation research scholar of Information and communication technologies (2002-2004).
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The Impact of Surveillance on …
The International Stage: Will Canada “Lower The Bar” Globally?
Dr. Ron Deibert
Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto
All eyes are turned towards Canada’s “lawful access” legislation: What standard will we set for democracy and freedom in cyberspace? Will we be lowering the bar and establishing a precedent – a “new normal” to which repressive regimes will point to justify their own actions? Dr. Ron Deibert argues that even as Russia, China, and others lobby for a more territorialized, controlled version of cyberspace, Canada, through its “lawful access” provisions is indirectly supporting those efforts.
John Ibbitson
John Ibbitson, Ottawa bureau chief for the Globe and Mail and winner of the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature, has lived numerous writing lives.
John Ibbitson
John Ibbitson, Ottawa bureau chief for the Globe and Mail and winner of the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature, has lived numerous writing lives.
He was born in the small Ontario town of Gravenhurst, graduating from the University of Toronto in 1979 with an Honours B.A. in English and from the University of Western Ontario in 1988 with an M.A. in Journalism.
In a career spanning more than 20 years, Ibbitson worked as a reporter, columnist and Queen’s Park correspondent for Southam papers, before joining the Globe in 1999, where he served as Queen Park’s columnist, Washington bureau chief, Ottawa political affairs correspondent, and Washington columnist and commentator, before returning to Ottawa in 2009 as bureau chief.
Along the way Ibbitson published four works of political analysis: Promised Land: Inside the Mike Harris Revolution (Prentice Hall, 1997); Loyal No More: Ontario’s Struggle for a Separate Destiny (HarperCollins, 2001); The Polite Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream (McClelland and Stewart, 2005) and Open and Shut: Why America has Barack Obama and Canada has Stephen Harper (McClelland and Stewart, 2009). He is also a writer of plays and of novels, including The Landing (Kids Can Press, 2008), which won the 2008 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature.
Ibbitson’s writing has also been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, as well as the Donner Prize, the National Newspaper Award, the Trillium Award and the City of Toronto Book Award.
Apart from writing, John Ibbitson’s interests include reading (mostly history and biography) music (mostly classical) and playing poker with reporters.
He can be reached at: John Ibbitson, The Globe and Mail, 100 Queen St., Suite 1400, Ottawa, Ont., Canada K1P 1J9.
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The Impact of Surveillance on …
The Average Canadian
John Ibbitson
Ottawa Bureau Chief, Globe and Mail
We are all citizen journalists, witnessing, recording, and instantly sharing events. True to journalistic form, John Ibbitson gets right to the point. The case is yet to be made for how this legislation will improve the lives of Canadians. We have been told this will improve policing, but how will this improve the life of the average Canadian? It’s time to ask the tough questions and examine the dangers of making surveillance the default.
Nathalie Des Rosiers
Nathalie Des Rosiers has been General Counsel of Canadian Civil Liberties Association since July 1, 2009. She was previously Dean of the Faculty of Law – Civil Law Section of the University of Ottawa from 2004 to 2008 and President of the Law Commission of Canada from 2000 to 2004.
Nathalie Des Rosiers
Nathalie Des Rosiers has been General Counsel of Canadian Civil Liberties Association since July 1, 2009. She was previously Dean of the Faculty of Law – Civil Law Section of the University of Ottawa from 2004 to 2008 and President of the Law Commission of Canada from 2000 to 2004.
She obtained an LL.B. from Université de Montréal and an LL.M. from Harvard University, and received an honorary doctorate from the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2004. She is a member of the Québec Bar and of the Law Society of Upper Canada. She is Full Professor at University of Ottawa and was a member of the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Law. She served as law clerk to Supreme Court of Canada Justice Julien Chouinard and worked in private practice.
She was named one of Canada’s 25 most influential lawyers in 2011 by the Canadian Lawyers Magazine; One of Canada’s 10 Nation Builders in 2010 by the Globe & Mail; she received the Médaille de l’Université Paris X in 2007; the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX) Partnership Award in 2004; the Medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1999; and the Order of Merit from AJEFO in 2000.
She is the past President of the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities, of the Canadian Council of Law Deans, of the Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario (AJEFO), and the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. She was also a member of the Ontario Environmental Appeal Board and a member of the Ontario Law Reform Commission.
For a complete list of publications please visit http://www.droitcivil.uottawa.ca/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=3&Itemid=117&lang=en
Sample Speeches and presentations:
Anti-Semitism Conference, Nov. 2010: Responsiblity for Freedom
David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights: An Updated Rationale for Interventions in Public Law Litigation
The Impact of Surveillance on …
Diversity, Social Creativity, and Policing
Nathalie Des Rosiers
General Counsel, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
The police should ask for permission beforehand -- not for forgiveness after the fact. But if the proposed “lawful access” bills are passed, police will no longer need to ask for a warrant, in some cases, to gain access to personal information. Nathalie Des Rosiers argues that warrants keep police accountable and that empowering police, without the corresponding obligation to justify the action, is dangerous. Without appropriate boundaries, society will become more homogeneous; creativity and innovation will be threatened.
David Fraser
David Fraser is a partner with McInnes Cooper, working with a range of private and public sector clients to implement compliance programs for Canadian privacy legislation.
David Fraser
David Fraser is a partner with McInnes Cooper, working with a range of private and public sector clients to implement compliance programs for Canadian privacy legislation. He regularly provides opinions related to Canadian privacy law for both Canadian and international clients and is a frequently invited speaker on this topic. David also represents clients in matters referred to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the Federal Court. He is the author of the popular Canadian Privacy Law Blog (www.privacylawyer.ca/blog).
In addition, David is the former President of the Canadian IT Law Association and the former Chair of National Privacy and Access Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association.
David was honoured to be included in the inaugural (2006) and each subsequent edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the category of Information Technology law. He is listed among the world’s leading lawyers in the Internet and eCommerce Law in the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. In the spring of 2006, David was a recipient of an Outstanding Young Canadian Award by the Junior Chamber of Commerce International - Halifax Chapter. In 2009, David was named as one of Canada’s “Top 40 Lawyers Under 40” by Lexpert.
The Impact of Surveillance on …
Businesses in the Information Age
David Fraser
Lead, McInnes Cooper Privacy Practice Group
In this increasingly social age, businesses are realizing that privacy and consumer trust are critical for a dynamic and growing business sector. Companies need to design their systems, from the ground up, with privacy and consumer choice embedded at every level. “Lawful access” forces internet and telecommunications providers to compromise their systems, from the ground up, with surveillance back-doors. Removing judicial oversight conscripts businesses as agents of law enforcement, destroying consumer trust and reducing privacy across the board. David Fraser examines Surveillance by Design: the “What’s next?” Scenario.
Following his appearance at the "Surveillance by Design" symposium, David Fraser stated, “in my haste to fit my comments into the allotted time, I may have mistakenly left attendees with the conclusion that [Research in Motion (RIM)] has compromised its Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) security system. That was not my intention and is not my belief. I see Blackberry as an example of how privacy and security can and should be built into products. For more information about BES security and the company's lawful access principles, see RIM’s 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report http://www.rim.com/investors/pdf/RIM_CR2011_Report.pdf (pages 14-15).”
Questions & Answers
Questions addressed by the panel of speakers at the Privacy Symposium.
