Organisation: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (CA)
Since 2019 Amanda Edmunds has led the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s compliance work with federal government institutions, including investigations of a broad range of privacy practices by federal government institution. Previously, since 2012, Amanda Edmunds managed complaint intake and data breach investigations under Canada’s federal private sector privacy law. In this role she led a number of investigations examining safeguards of mass data, including technical, organizational and contractual measures. This included the OPC’s investigation of the Ashley Madison data breach in 2016, and the Equifax data breach in 2017.