The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is pleased to announce that Faculty members Professor Jane Bailey and Dr.Teresa Scassahave been appointed to the Strategic Advisory Council of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, which will provide Commissioner Kosseim’s office with independent, expert advice to help ensure a broader range of interests and perspectives are taken into consideration in advancing and implementing the office’s strategic goals.Last year, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) selected four strategic priority areas to focus their work over the next few years, with a view to becoming more effective at advancing Ontarians’ access and privacy rights: Privacy and Transparency in a Modern Government; Children and Youth in a Digital World; Trust in Digital Health; Next Generation Law Enforcement.
A new Strategic Advisory Council will engage on matters related to each of the four priority areas, leverage the IPC’s accomplishments, and focus the IPC’s resources on areas where they can have the most positive impact. In addition to meeting in plenary, Strategic Advisory Council members will convene around one of four priority tables, each dedicated to advancing a specific strategic priority as part of an effort to engage in more granular and practical discussions about where the IPC can have the greatest positive impact moving forward. Finally, council members will help evaluate and monitor success in achieving the IPC’s goals by providing concrete feedback needed to recalibrate and adjust according to the evolving context in the months and years to come.
This new council will include Faculty members Professor Jane Bailey, a Full Professor of Law within the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, and Dr. Teresa Scassa, the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy, and a Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa. Other council members come from various backgrounds, including the public and private sectors, academia, law, advocacy groups, health, education and law enforcement.
Professor Bailey co-leads The eQuality Project, a $2.5 million 7-year SSHRC funded partnership initiative focused on young people’s experiences with digital technologies and the impact of corporate profiling practices on young people and their relationships. She leads the project stream focused on technology-facilitated violence. Dr. Scassa’s research explores the intersection of law and technology, and she draws upon interdisciplinary approaches and networks in her work. She has written widely about intellectual property and privacy law issues in a broad range of contexts. Her ongoing research projects are on artificial intelligence and the law, data governance, data privacy, and legal dimensions of data scraping.
Congratulations to Professor Bailey and Dr. Scassa!