Mari Frank, Esq. interviews Canada Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian and Privacy Expert Peter Hope-Tindell

Dr. Cavoukian is Ontario's first Information and Privacy Commissioner to be reappointed for a second term. Initially appointed in 1997, her role in overseeing the operations of the freedom of information and privacy laws in Canada's most populous province was extended to 2009. Like the provincial auditor, she serves as an officer of the legislature, independent of the government of the day. Mr. Hope-Tindall is Technical Director and Chief Privacy Architect of dataPrivacy Partners Ltd., a Canadian based privacy consultancy. Formerly, he was special advisor to the Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario for biometrics and cryptography where he conducted privacy audits and assessments and monitored the development of large government systems having a significant privacy component. Mr. Hope-Tindall also represented the province of Ontario at the 1998 Canadian encryption policy discussions from which the template for Canada's national encryption policy arose.