Ann Cavoukian

Ann Cavoukian ( born 1952 in Cairo ) is the current Freedom of Information and Data Protection Officer (Information and Privacy Commissioner - IPC ) of the Canadian province of Ontario.

Cavoukian was born in Egypt as a child of Armenian parents in 1958 and emigrated with her family to Toronto (Canada) from. She is the sister of the famous musician Raffi Cavoukian in Canada.

Cavoukian obtained his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at the University of Toronto, specializing in criminology and law.

As of 1987, she then worked as the first Director of conformity in the newly created Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. In 1997 she was appointed to the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Commissioner of Ontario. Your authority is independent from the government. She is the first Freedom of Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, which was also confirmed for the second term (until 2009) in her office. For privacy issues it is regularly consulted by the media for her opinion, not least because they can present complex information in simple terms. From a leading data protection magazine Cavoukian was elected to the Privacy Manager of the Year in 2003, an honor to be nominated for the privacy advocates around the world.

On March 29, 2005, she spoke in an interview with the Minister Sandra Pupatello presented by Adoption Disclosure Act of 183.

Your authority has developed a number of tools and methods for data security.

Works

Cavoukian has two basic books published about data that illuminate the human and financial risks in the absence of protection in terms of staff and customers.

• Don Tapscott: Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World, 1997.
• Tyler Hamilton: The Privacy Payoff: How Successful Businesses Build Customer Trust, 2002.