 Biography of Heather H. Black,
Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Heather Black is a former member of the Department of
Justice, where her practice was largely in commercial law.
From 2001 to August 2003 she was General Counsel at the
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Effective
August 18, 2003 she was appointed Assistant Privacy
Commissioner of Canada with primary responsibility for
private sector privacy.
Ms. Black first began working with privacy issues as a member
of the Information Law and Privacy Group at Justice from 1982
- 1986 where she participated in the drafting of guidelines
for the implementation of the Privacy Act, provided
legal advice on its interpretation, and litigation support on
Privacy Act cases.
Ms. Black is a graduate in English from Concordia University
(1965) and has an LLB from McGill University (1974). She was
called to the Ontario bar in 1976 and practised with the
Department of Justice in various capacities until 2000.
As counsel to Industry Canada she worked on the development
of Part 1 of the Personal Information Protection and
Electronic Documents Act. She was involved in the policy
development and was instructing counsel on the drafting of
the Bill.
She is a co-author of "The Personal Information and
Electronic Documents Act: An annotated Guide" published
by Irwin Law (Perrin, Black, Flaherty and Rankin) www.irwinlaw.com.
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