I am the Director of Research and Technology Policy at Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, where I lead a multidisciplinary team focused on the governance of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data governance, privacy-enhancing technologies, and surveillance practices in the public sector. I provide strategic leadership on how these systems are regulated, with particular attention to their use in law enforcement, health, and other public-sector decision-making contexts.

My work connects applied policy, research, and technical practice, and examines how data-driven and security-oriented technologies shape rights, accountability, and public trust. For a fuller biography and career narrative, see my curriculum vitae or About page.

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Over my career I have undertaken a range of projects and published underlying documents. Such documents (and analysis) include those pertaining to the Edward Snowden national security documents and covernames, hundreds of national security, industrial policy, and privacy related ATIPs, federal government Order Paper questions and responses, social media transparency, government electronic surveillance reports, IMSI catchers in Canada, and RCMP use of On-Device Investigative Tools.

Things I’m Reading

• To guarantee privacy, focus on the algorithms, not the data — Schwartz Reisman Institute
• Debating creating a Canadian CIA? Never say never, but now is not the time: Martin Green in The Hill Times | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
• Proposed Amendments to Regulation 180: General under the Coroners Act | regulatoryregistry.gov.on.ca
• Dev used Claude to build TrapC, memory-safe extension of C