CAVOUKIAN: PRIVACY, SECURITY & BIG DATA

   Toronto Sun Editor-in-Chief Adrienne Batra welcomed Dr. Ann Cavoukian, the head of Privacy By Design Centre of Excellence, recently to find out at how privacy, security and big data interlopers might impact the election.
   “I think one of the issues that they should be concerned about is the fact that when the federal privacy commissioner when to our prime minister, Mr. Trudeau, and said, ‘Political parties should fall under privacy legislation for goodness sake. It’s been a long time coming. Would you bring them under the Privacy Act?’ What did he say? He said no. I find that appalling. These are some of the things I think individuals in this country have to be concerned about and bring this up at election time. There’s no control on the use of your data by political parties.”

  Cavoukian also weighs in on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wanting big banks to provide our personal data to Statistics Canada and the idea of collecting data via a smart city in Toronto.