Big Surveillance Demands Big Privacy –
Enter Privacy-Protective Surveillance

January 28, 2014,  9 a.m.  - 12:30 p.m.
MaRS Discovery District 101 College Street, Toronto

The event is now full

However, you can still view the event via live webcast:

Surveillance is a global issue, with personal information being shared across jurisdictions, at times in a manner that contravenes the most basic principles of privacy and freedom. Canadians can no longer be complacent and criticize the United States for allowing the NSA so much unsupervised power. We know startlingly little about what our government is doing – and, potentially, what foreign intelligence agencies are doing – with their personal information. It is disturbing that there has been so little debate on this important issue, even in Parliament. It is time for citizens to speak out so that we can protect our freedom and take back our privacy. In a free and open society, we deserve no less.

Join Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, and esteemed guests as they address these important issues on International Privacy Day:

Time		Activity
8:30am		Registration and Networking
9:00am		Keynote by Commissioner Cavoukian
9:40am		Panel 1
		Moderator
		Colin Freeze National Security Reporter The Globe and Mail
		Ron Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto	Andrew Clement Professor Faculty of Information University of Toronto
		Wesley Wark Professor Faculty of Social Sciences Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Ottawa	Khaled El Emam Associate Professor Faculty of Medicine University of Ottawa
11:00am		Panel 2
		Moderator
		Alison Smith Host CBC’s the World at Six
		Nathalie Des Rosiers Dean, Faculty of Law University of Ottawa	David TS Fraser Partner McInnes Cooper
		Micheal Vonn Policy Director BCCLA	Rainey Reitman Activism Director Electronic Frontier Foundation
		Amie Stepanovich Director, Domestic Surveillance Project Electronic Privacy Information Center	The Hon. Wayne Easter Public Safety Critic Liberal Party of Canada
		The event also features special video presentations from:
		William Binney Mathematician/Analyst Former Intelligence Official with the NSA	Dr. Alexander Dix Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Berlin, Germany
12:20pm		Closing Remarks