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Dr. Ann Cavoukian

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Dr. Ann Cavoukian
Smart cities of surveillance
02 May 2019 • Dr. Ann Cavoukian, a three-term Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada and creator of Privacy by Design (PbD), warns of the potential privacy loss as we develop Smart Cities.
About Dr. Ann Cavoukian

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts, serving served three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada.

There she created Privacy by Design (PbD), a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technologies, networked infrastructure and business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible.

In 2010, PbD was recognized as an international standard and has since been translated into 40 languages.