Privacy by Design for COVID-19 Exposure Notification - Canada's Experience
Presented by the CBA Privacy and Access Law Section
COST
CBA members: $55
CBA Young Lawyer Members (<5 years): $40
CBA Student members: $10
Non-members: $220
Government: $110
Plus applicable taxes
This session will be presented in English. Registrants will receive an on-demand recording following each webcast. This is the 2nd webinar in the CBA Access to Information and Privacy Law Online Symposium.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1:00 PM TO 2:30 PM ET
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Privacy by Design for COVID-19 Exposure Notification - Canada's Experience
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As the current pandemic was bearing down on the world, Google and Apple fielded a number of calls from global public health officials inquiring about how their technologies and platforms could be leveraged to assist in understanding the spread of the disease and to assist in limiting its spread. Google and Apple, together, created an exposure notification framework for their Android and iOS devices with explicit privacy protections. In Canada, after many months of intense collaboration across different government departments, levels of government and privacy regulators, the national Canadian COVID Alert app using that same framework launched this summer and has been steadily adding new provinces to the list where Canadians can report a positive diagnosis through the app. This panel will discuss their experience from building a global framework, to launching a national app, the challenges they faced in advocating for and adopting privacy-by-design, and some of the trade-offs that were made as a result.
Moderator:
Suzanne Morin, Vice President, Enterprise Conduct, Data Ethics and Chief Privacy Officer, Sun Life
Speaker:
Cary Bassin, Privacy Counsel, Google LLC
Andréa Rousseau, Director, Privacy Management, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada
Lucas Cherkewski, Policy Analyst, Canadian Digital Service
David Goodis, Assistant Commissioner, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
