Last year, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) selected four strategic priority areas to focus their work over the next few years, with a view to becoming more effective at advancing Ontarians’ access and privacy rights: Privacy and Transparency in a Modern Government; Children and Youth in a Digital World; Trust in Digital Health; Next Generation Law Enforcement.
A new Strategic Advisory Council will engage on matters related to each of the four priority areas, leverage the IPC’s accomplishments, and focus the IPC’s resources on areas where they can have the most positive impact. In addition to meeting in plenary, Strategic Advisory Council members will convene around one of four priority tables, each dedicated to advancing a specific strategic priority as part of an effort to engage in more granular and practical discussions about where the IPC can have the greatest positive impact moving forward. Finally, council members will help evaluate and monitor success in achieving the IPC’s goals by providing concrete feedback needed to recalibrate and adjust according to the evolving context in the months and years to come.
This new council will include Faculty members Professor Jane Bailey, who co-leads The eQuality Project, and Dr. Teresa Scassa, the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy. Both are also members of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. Other council members come from various backgrounds, including the public and private sectors, academia, law, advocacy groups, health, education and law enforcement.
Congratulations to Professor Bailey and Dr. Scassa!
