Kris Klein

Practice Areas

Kris, CIPP/C, CIPM and FIP, has more than two decades of public and private sector experience in the federal regulatory arena in Canada, and is one of Canada’s leading legal experts on privacy, access to information and information security issues.

Kris has litigated and counseled extensively on federal regulatory law with a pre-eminent national firm, and for the Canada’s Department of Justice, including providing instrumental legal advice to Canada’s Privy Council Office. He has also practiced exclusively in the area of privacy law, advising the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. In that role Kris advised the Privacy Commissioner and senior officials on legal, policy and strategic issues, including on the handling of high-profile and sensitive cases. He negotiated and settled complaints with private sector organizations facing scrutiny over privacy compliance issues. Kris also represented the Commissioner and her office publicly before Parliamentary committees, as a conference speaker, and before the media.

Kris teaches a Privacy Law course at the University of Ottawa Faculty Law School, and continues to provide countless in-house training sessions to corporations and government departments

Professional Memberships

Kris is the Managing Director of IAPP Canada.

Publications

Kris has an extensive list of publications including: Canadian Privacy: Data Protection Law and Policy for the Practitioner; The Klein & Kratchanov Report: The Canadian Source for Legal Developments in Privacy and Access; The Law of Privacy in Canada; Privacy in Employment: Control of Personal Information in the Workplace; and Government Information: The Right to Information and the Protection of Privacy in Canada.