With the recent wave of privacy reforms sweeping across Canada
and abroad, including changes to the privacy legislation in Quebec
with Bill 64 (“Quebec Privacy Law”) and the proposed
reform to the federal private sector privacy legislation with Bill
C-27, the role privacy officers play in organizations has garnered
significant attention. Having gained substantial leadership
experience as a privacy officer, what follows in this article is
the perspective I gained in these unique and essential roles. Each
mandate, while quite different in practice, harvested similar
lessons that I believe every practitioner working in the privacy
sector should adopt to maximize their effectiveness within their
organization. The following are seven key lessons every privacy
officer or practitioner should know.
