Keynote Presentation: Privacy and Our Democracy

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Presented at Privacy&SecurityConference 2019 by

Greg Smolynec

In his address, Deputy Commissioner Smolynec will discuss how privacy goes beyond narrow obligations to safeguard data, organizational commitments to assess risk, or even individual claims of information ownership. The right to privacy, he will argue, is essential to sustaining freedom and democracy. While efficiency, innovation and transparency are important drivers, they cannot come at the expense of privacy, lest we put at risk those societal values we all hold dear: fairness, respect, equality and freedom.