Former Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian: Never give up on privacy!

Dr. Ann Cavoukian was Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner for unprecedented 17 years and held the position during 3 different provincial governments. About 7 years ago, while still in office, I interviewed Ann Cavoukian on her original concept of Privacy by Design. [PbD] So if you haven’t seen it yet it may be best to start by watching our previous conversation first because I will try not to repeat any of the questions that I asked last time. In the meantime, Cavoukian’s PbD has gone global and has been translated into 40 languages and implemented in the European GDPR legislation. During this 45 min interview with Dr. Ann Cavoukian, we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: the growth in understanding of the importance of privacy coinciding with the growth of surveillance; the moving story of how art saved the lives of her family during the Armenian genocide; the coronavirus pandemic, surveillance, privacy, and democracy; the racist and sexist false positives of facial recognition; the benefits of GDPR; Waterfront Toronto, Sidewalk Labs, and Toronto’s Smart City; the importance of data de-identification at source; upgrading the privacy laws in Canada; smart speakers such as Amazon’s Alexa; cryptography, software backdoors, and the keys-under-doormats campaign; PbD and AI Ethics. You can watch the full video interview here: https://www.singularityweblog.com/ann-cavoukian/