Privacy: From Concept to Reality

DATE: March 21, 2002

PLACE: Rideau Room, Sheraton Hotel, 150 Albert Street

SPEAKERS: Ross Hodgins and Diane Boland, Treasury Board.

EVENT ABSTRACT

Privacy is a critical success factor for e-business. Public opinion research, media headlines, court cases and recent private sector legislation all point to its significance in government and business. The Chief Information Officer Branch (CIOB) of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat has developed a tool, the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), for business and technology managers. The PIA is designed to ensure that the privacy of individuals and their personal information are treated as a core consideration throughout the design, re-design, development and implementation of an IM/IT project. Based on universal privacy principles, it provides managers and decision-makers with the information necessary to make fully informed policy, system design and procurement decisions based on an understanding of privacy implications and risks.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS EVENT:

• business, program and technology managers; and

• privacy, information management, legal, security, quality management, audit and risk management experts.

BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT YOU WILL LEARN:

• about a practical tool that provides decision-makers with a full assessment of the privacy risks;
• a disciplined process that promotes open communications, common understanding and transparency;
• to avoid costs by building in privacy at the outset;
• how the tool has evolved, continues to evolve and is being implemented; and
• our experiences implementing the PIA.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Both Ross Hodgins and Diane Boland are Senior Policy Officers of the Information Policy Division of Government On-Line, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Ross is a recognized privacy expert who has developed and implemented several ground breaking privacy policies for government. Diane has over 15 years in design and implementation of IT projects and has worked on several key privacy projects and policies."