Moderated by:
Bob Carty
CBC radio producer and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE)

Presentations by:
Alice Sturgeon
Senior Director, Accessibility, Identity Management and Security, Treasury Board Secretariat

Gus Hosein
Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics & Senior Fellow, Privacy International

Neville Pattinson,
Director of Marketing and Government Affairs, Gemalto

Stephanie Perrin
Director, Research and Policy,
Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Canada

Stephanie Perrin is the Director of Strategic Policy and Research at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.  She joined the office in May 2005, after working as a privacy consultant for three years.  She is the former Chief Privacy Officer for Zero Knowledge Systems, a privacy-enhancing technology company that was active in pushing the boundaries of anonymity on the Internet during 2000-2002.  During that time she was the Team Leader of an expert group reporting to CEN/ISSS on the benefits of standards in implementing the European Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data. 

From the early 1980s to 2000, Stephanie Perrin worked in the federal departments of Communications and Industry, on various aspects of the protection of personal information.  She was one of the drafters of the CAN/CSA-Q830-96, the Canadian standard for the protection of personal information, and as Director of Privacy Policy at Industry Canada’s Electronic Commerce Division, she led the team that incorporated that standard in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act which became law in 2000.  She represented Canada for ten years at the OECD working parties which studied privacy under the ICCP, and she has extensive international experience with respect to the practical applications of privacy law and policy.

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This event is sponsored by the Faculty of Information Studies,  University of Toronto with a grant
from the Stepping UP Academic Initiatives Fund, and by the SSHRC-funded
Information Policy Research Program's Digital Identity Construction project.