Rate My Professor Kris Klein

Kris Klein is a Part-time Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where he teaches the Privacy Law course. He earned an LL.B. from Queen's University and a B.A. with Distinction in Geography, with a concentration in Geographic Information Processing, from Carleton University. Klein brings more than two decades of public and private sector experience in Canada's federal regulatory arena. He has litigated and counseled extensively on federal regulatory law with a pre-eminent national firm and for the Department of Justice, including providing instrumental legal advice to Canada's Privy Council Office. His practice has focused exclusively on privacy law, where he advised the Privacy Commissioner of Canada on legal, policy, and strategic issues, including high-profile and sensitive cases. Klein negotiated and settled complaints with private sector organizations under privacy scrutiny and represented the Commissioner publicly before parliamentary committees, as a conference speaker, and in the media. He demonstrates expertise in technology-related privacy matters, such as theories of anonymity, data de-identification, authentication systems, health privacy issues, and their intersections with Canadian laws and enforcement.

In addition to his academic role, Klein serves as Managing Director of IAPP Canada and delivers in-house training sessions to corporations and government departments. He has authored or co-authored several influential publications on privacy and access to information, including Canadian Privacy: Data Protection Law and Policy for the Practitioner, the official reference for the CIPP/C credentialing program; The Law of Privacy in Canada, a comprehensive examination of personal information regulation covering technology challenges, criminal and civil protections, workplace and health privacy, public and private sector rules, and international issues; Privacy in Employment: Control of Personal Information in the Workplace; A Complete Guide to e-Marketing under Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation; Government Information: The Right to Information and the Protection of Privacy in Canada; and The Klein & Kratchanov Report: The Canadian Source for Legal Developments in Privacy and Access. Klein writes and speaks regularly on privacy, access to information, information management, and security, establishing him as one of Canada's leading legal experts in these fields.