I think this is a great initiative, opening new opportunities in teaching and researching in the areas of Identity, Privacy and Security – as highlighted in this article by CNW Group:
“On September 17, 2007, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, will be presenting the inaugural lecture at the University of Toronto's new interdisciplinary program called the Identity, Privacy and Security Initiative (IPSI), www.ipsi.utoronto.ca.
This initiative links two new graduate concentrations in privacy and security, offered this fall through the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and the Faculty of Information Studies. A key goal of IPSI is to bring together faculty and students from different disciplines to study and think together about identity, privacy and security and related technologies, policies and sciences.
Commissioner Cavoukian was appointed as the Chair of the Advisory Council for IPSI. "Given the Commissioner's strong support over the past two decades for privacy-related research, education and innovation, we are delighted that Dr. Cavoukian has agreed to act as the Advisory Council Chair," says Dr. Tim McTiernan, Interim Vice-President, Research, at the University of Toronto. "We feel that she is the ideal partner for this exciting initiative." …”
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