Kris Klein, CIPP/C, CIPM, and FIP, has more than two decades of public and private sector experience in the federal regulatory arena in Canada, and is one of Canada’s leading legal practitioners on privacy, access to information, and information security issues. He has litigated and counseled extensively on federal regulatory law with a pre-eminent national firm, and for the Canada’s justice department, including providing instrumental legal advice to Canada’s Privy Council Office. He has also practised exclusively in the area of privacy law, advising Canada's privacy commissioner. In that role he advised the privacy commissioner and senior officials on legal, policy, and strategic issues, including on the handling of high-profile and sensitive cases. He negotiated and settled complaints with private sector organizations facing scrutiny over privacy compliance issues. He has a demonstrated understanding of technology, theories of anonymity (de-identification of data), authentication systems, health privacy issues, etc., and their relationship to Canadian laws and enforcement practices. He has written extensively, including co-authoring several instrumental works.
