Stephanie Perrin to Receive Privacy Award

Stephanie Perrin, co-author of The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act: An Annotated Guide (Irwin Law, 2001) has been named the recipient of the Privacy Advocate Award for 2001. The Privacy Advocate Award is given annually by the British Columbia Freedom of Information and Privacy Association for outstanding contribution to the advancement of privacy rights in Canada. Ms. Perrin will receive the award on November 19, 2001 in Vancouver.

Earlier this year Ms. Perrin received international recognition from the Electronic Frontier Foundation “for her instrumental and long-term role in advancing understanding and protection of privacy internationally and in her home country of Canada.”

Stephanie Perrin is Chief Privacy Officer at Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc. in Montreal. Prior to joining Zero-Knowledge, Ms. Perrin was the Director of Privacy Policy for Industry Canada’s Electronic Commerce Task Force and led the legislative initiative at Industry Canada that resulted in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. An internationally recognized expert in freedom of information and privacy issues, Ms. Perrin was instrumental in developing Canada’s privacy and cryptography policies for nearly twenty years and has represented Canada internationally at the OECD Security and Privacy Committee.

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act: An Annotated Guide is co-authored by Ms. Perrin, Heather H. Black, David H. Flaherty and T. Murray Rankin, Q.C.

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