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Murray
Long is a leading
Canadian Privacy Consultant.
He helped draft the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Privacy Code that
is built into Canada’s new private sector privacy laws. In 1997 he established
his own consulting practice and has provided privacy guidance to organizations
in the telecommunications, broadcasting, financial, transportation, retail,
franchising and charitable sectors as well as to federal and provincial government
agencies.
Mr. Long writes and speaks extensively about privacy law. He has written on-line
privacy courses in collaboration with ENS eLearning Solutions Inc. and was
the author of a CD ROM-based privacy training tool for the CSA. Along with
Suzanne Morin, a senior lawyer at Bell Canada, he is co-author of the Canadian
Privacy Law Handbook, the first annotated guide to the new law, published
in June, 2000. He also regularly writes, edits and publishes PrivacyScan,
a newsletter on privacy law compliance.
Robert Parker is a partner in the Toronto Office of Deloitte & Touche – Canada, where he has national responsibility for the firm’s Personal Information Privacy practice. He has been involved in information technology and computer security and control since the late 1960’s. He has authored a number of articles and books, including three books on microcomputers published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., four books on Year 2000, and was the Project Director on the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants publication Information Technology Control Guidelines that provides over 400 pages of guidance to technology professionals.
He served on the International Board of Directors of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association from 1979 to 1991 and was International President in 1986-1987. He continues to be active in the Association serving on their Strategy Committee and the Research Board of the IT Governance Institute.
He was the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants representative on an ISO personal information privacy committee from 1995 through its completion in 1997, and is currently assisting clients in assessing their current readiness and future strategy to deal with Canada’s new Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. He is also a member of the Security and Privacy sub committee of the Canadian eBusiness Initiative. The CeBI comprises over 70 business, professional, academic and government representatives.
He is a founding member of the AICPA-CICA joint Canada - United States Enterprise-Wide Privacy Task Force that has developed principles and guidelines to provide a framework for assessing compliance with Canadian and US privacy legislation. He is currently the chair of the CICA’s Privacy Advisory Group which promotes privacy amongst businesses and professionals in Canada.
He recently developed the Canadian Bankers Association’s, Industry Canada, Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants eBusiness security and privacy seminar, currently presented in over 50 cities across Canada.
He is a frequent author and presenter, having presented sessions on privacy in Canada, the United States and in Europe and having been published or quoted in a number of recognized magazines and journals.
Eloïse Gratton, L.L.M., L.L.B., Technology Counsel, McMillan Binch Mendelsohn
Gratton practices in the areas of corporate, commercial and information technology law in the Montreal office of McMillan Binch Mendelsohn. Before joining the firm, Gratton acted as Director of Corporate & Legal Affairs for a wireless technology company. She serves as legal counsel for the Toronto-based Society of Internet Professionals and acts as Vice-Chair for the Canadian IT Law Association Ad hoc Privacy Committee and as Senior Consultant (Quebec) for the Canadian Privacy Institute. Gratton speaks frequently at national and international technology conferences on privacy matters. She is a published author in international IT law publications and is the author of the 2003 CCH book entitled “Internet and Wireless Privacy: A Legal Guide to Global Business Practices". This publication is a leading guide for businesses operating websites, involved in e-commerce or online marketing.
Doug Cooke – McAfee Channel Sales Engineer
Doug Cooke has fulfilled a variety
of sales consultancy and management roles in his 9 years with McAfee and 20+
years in the IT vendor community. At McAfee he has worked with customers of
all sizes to deploy and maintain malicious threat avoidance solutions. Mr.
Cooke has a Bachelor of Science - Major Computer Science from the University
of Toronto.
Ryk Edelstein – President Converge Net Inc. / CTO ESS Convergence
Ryk Edelstein is the founder and president of Converge Net Inc. a Montreal
based network services provider focusing on the efficiency, security and management
of data communication networks. He has been involved as the president and
co-founder of a number of successful IT services companies since 1981.
Edelstein's diverse business and technical background, paired with a real
world approach to networking, has been instrumental in his ability to direct
the companies he has headed to deliver valued solutions and services to hundreds
of enterprises in Quebec including many of the Les Affaires 500. Through the
evolution of network technology, his companies have delivered advanced networking
solutions for some of the toughest challenges to network renovation, privacy,
quality of service, management and security.
He served as Assistant Director for the Montreal chapter of the American Society
of Industrial Security (ASIS), and has conducted lectures at York University’s
Schulich School of Business on the subject of Information Security. Having
been trained in electronic Counter surveillance and an accomplished specialist
in Tactical Surveillance Countermeasure surveys, Edelstein appreciates the
value of identifying the root cause of a challenge before acting on a solution.
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