1. Ann Cavoukian was born on October 7,1952 and is the former Information and Privacy Commissioner for the Canadian province of Ontario.
18 Facts About Ann Cavoukian
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Ann Cavoukian was hired by Ryerson University as a distinguished visiting professor after the end of her three terms as IPC.
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Since 2017, Ann Cavoukian has been the Distinguished Expert-in-Residence of the university's Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence.
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Ann Cavoukian was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1952 to ethnic Armenian parents Artin and Lucie Ann Cavoukian, and immigrated to Toronto with her family in 1958.
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Ann Cavoukian is the sister of Canadian children's entertainer Raffi and photographer Cavouk Cavoukian.
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Ann Cavoukian joined the Ontario provincial Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner in 1987.
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Ann Cavoukian served as its first Director of Compliance followed by her appointment as Assistant Commissioner in 1990.
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Ann Cavoukian was initially appointed commissioner in 1997, and is the first Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario to have been re-appointed for a third term.
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On March 29,2005, Commissioner Ann Cavoukian spoke out against the adoption disclosure Bill 183, Adoption Information Disclosure Act, stating that the proposed law needed an amendment giving birth parents and adoptees from adoptions that occurred prior to the passing of this retroactive law the right, if desired, to file a disclosure veto to prevent the opening of their sealed files.
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The Adoption Information Disclosure Act received Royal Assent on November 3,2005, without Commissioner Ann Cavoukian's proposed disclosure veto.
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Ann Cavoukian had been an advocate of this legislation since the office of the IPC was first formed in 1987.
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In November 2007, the Toronto Transit Commission announced plans to expand its video surveillance program, which resulted in a formal complaint to Commissioner Cavoukian from Privacy International, a UK-based organization, citing concerns that the TTC's proposed expansion was a violation of privacy laws.
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Ann Cavoukian encouraged the TTC to conduct a pilot project to test the use of a privacy-enhancing video surveillance technology developed by researchers at the University of Toronto.
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Ann Cavoukian was hired by Ryerson University as a distinguished visiting professor after the end of her three terms as IPC.
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Ann Cavoukian was appointed executive director of the university's Privacy and Big Data Institute in 2014.
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Since 2017, Ann Cavoukian has been the Distinguished Expert-in-Residence of the university's Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence.
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Ann Cavoukian met with Waterfront Toronto on November 5,2018, to call for the immediate de-identification of data at the source and to express her willingness to continue working with the organization.
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Ann Cavoukian participated in a panel discussion at the 2019 ITAC Smart Cities Technology Summit in Brampton, Ontario.