Our Associate, Yonida Koukio, presented at the Ontario Bar Association’s Privacy Law Basics program alongside Paniz Ghazanfari and Ian Duke, bringing together perspectives from both the private and public sectors.
The session focused on how privacy actually shows up in commercial agreements, particularly in vendor relationships, data processing terms, and cross-border data issues, and where organizations tend to underestimate risk.
A key takeaway: organizations often overlook privacy risk not in their complex contractual provisions, but in the everyday ones. Standard templates, default DPAs, and untested assumptions about data flows can leave significant gaps.
Thank you to program chairs Ryan MacIsaac, Imtiaz Karamat, and Catherine Hart for a thoughtful and practical session.