Jim Balsillie is the founder of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, the Centre for Digital Rights, and the former co-CEO of Research In Motion (BlackBerry). 

• From tech executive to tech critic [4:38]
• Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs project [5:50]
• Why data governance is the most pressing public policy issue of our time [7:21]
• The false dichotomy between privacy regulation and innovation [8:45]
• Elements of a modern, enduring privacy law [11:04]
• A made in Ontario private sector privacy law [14:07]
• Oversight of political parties, protecting the privacy of citizens, and upholding democracy in the age of big data [17:47]
• Data driven harms and children, the UK’s Children’s Code [21:04]
• Advancing the IPC’s strategic priorities: Privacy and Transparency in a Modern Government; Children and Youth in a Digital World [24:01]
• Adapting laws and regulatory bodies to a data-driven world [25:15]

Resources:

• Jim Balsillie : ‘Data is not the new oil – it’s the new plutonium’ (National Post)
• Leave no Ontarian behind: Why Ontario should move ahead with its own private sector privacy law (IPC news release)
• 5Rights Foundation
• The Children’s Code (Age Appropriate Design Code) (Information Commissioner’s Office UK)
• Whose job is it to keep kids safe online? (Baroness Beeban Kidron on The Agenda with Steve Paikin)
• IPC Strategic Priorities 2021-2025

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