Jennifer Stoddart

Jennifer Stoddart ( born 1949 in Toronto ) is the reigning Canadian Privacy Commissioner.

Stoddart has a license for civil law from McGill University and a Master of Arts in History from the Université du Québec à Montréal and operational doctoral studies at the University of Paris VII She taught history and law at UQAM and McGill University.

Stoddart has held various offices in the public administration of the governments of Quebec and Canada, including in the human rights commissions of Canada and Québec. Currently she is a board member of the Canadian Institute of Judicial Administration.

Before she became so appointed Privacy Commissioner for Data Protection Officer of Canada, Stoddart was President of the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec, an organization for access to information and data protection authority.

On 1 December 2003 Stoddart was appointed Canada's Privacy Commissioner. The term of office is seven years. It represents Canada at the International Conference of Data Protection Commissioner and the protection of privacy.

In November 2005, a journalist Stoddart showed their telephone connection data for the last few months - both those of the conversations that were made ​​by their home phone, as well as the data of the questions put to it by the government available to BlackBerry system. The journalist had purchased online, the data in a U.S. data broker for U.S. $ 200 without having to answer further questions.