Joanna Fine

Practice Areas

Joanna is a member of the Privacy and Data Management group. She provides practical and strategic privacy compliance advice to organizations across all sectors, from large multi-national companies to emerging companies. Joanna regularly assists clients in identifying and managing privacy risks associated with complex and innovative data collection and use initiatives, including interest-based advertising, “big data” analytics, AI, surveillance technologies, and anti-fraud initiatives.

Joanna also assists clients with security incident response and privacy regulatory investigations, including liaising with federal and provincial privacy regulators in Canada.

She regularly provides privacy and anti-spam training to clients, drafts privacy policies and procedures, conducts privacy reviews, and advises on privacy issues in mergers and acquisitions and outsourcing arrangements (including transborder data flows).

Professional Memberships

Canadian Bar Association

The Canadian Technology Law Association

International Association of Privacy Professionals

Ontario Bar Association, member of the Privacy Law Section Executive

The Law Society of Ontario

Toronto Computer Lawyers' Group

Publications

Frequent speaker/author on topics related to privacy & data management, cybersecurity and security incident response, marketing and distribution and technology.

Personal

University of Toronto, J.D.

York University, M.E.S.

McGill University, B.A.

Ontario, 2006