Privacy & Access Council of Canada
SHARON POLSKY MAPP is President of AMINAcorp.ca, President of the Privacy and Access Council of Canada, and a Privacy by Design Ambassador with more than 30 years’ experience advising corporations and governments, as well as Parliamentary, Senate and legislative committees about privacy and access implications, and about the unintended consequences of emerging laws, technologies and global trends.
Her insights are frequently sought by conference organizers and by media including CTV, CBC, Global News, BellMedia, Rogers Media, Radio-Canada International, the National Post, The Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star, iPolitics, Blacklock’s Reporter, CPAC, and professional journals.
Sharon is helping advance the work of the newly formed National Cybersecurity Consortium, and is a member of the National Privacy & Access Certification Committee and Accreditation Advisory Board and several Digital Governance Standards committees. She served as an Executive Member of the Canadian Bar Association Alberta Privacy and Access Law Section, and on the Board of the Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties Association; on the National Advisory Committee for the University of Alberta IAPP Program and the Advisory Board of the Canadian Institute for Information and Privacy Studies; and the Health Information Management Program Advisory Committee.
