Dr. Brenda McPhail

Dr. Brenda McPhail is the Director of the Privacy, Technology and Surveillance Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. As a researcher at a national, non-profit legal advocacy organization, her work supports litigation, advocacy and public education relating to the ways in which privacy rights are at risk in contemporary society. She has appeared as an expert witness before Parliamentary and Senate committees regarding privacy law reform, national security, and biometric data, and leads CCLA’s litigation in key court cases that raise privacy issues. Recent grant-funded research includes work on data trusts as a governance framework for data with public good characteristics, workplace surveillance applications, media governance and AI, facial recognition technology in policing, and virtual health care data privacy.