Tamara Hunter – PSV2019
Associate Counsel, DLA Piper
Tamara Hunter leads DLA Piper Canada’s Privacy, Data Protection and Security practice in Canada and is based in the firm’s Vancouver office. She has 17 years’ experience advising and representing clients on privacy, data protection and security and on access to information matters.
Tamara has extensive experience advising on privacy compliance issues, anti-spam law compliance, information security breaches, privacy impact assessments and has conducted numerous proactive privacy reviews and audits, and has developed and provided information security breach plans (both proactive and responsive), breach reports to privacy regulators, as well as privacy training.
Tamara has represented numerous organizations (both private sector and public sector) before Canadian privacy regulators, including the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for Alberta and the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner. She has been lead counsel on numerous inquiry proceedings before the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia. Tamara has represented organizations in litigation related to privacy and data protection issues before the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the British Columbia Court of Appeal and the Federal Court of Canada.
Tamara also regularly advises and represents the privacy regulator in British Columbia. She has been named by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia as a qualified lawyer approved to act on its behalf in matters relating to privacy protection law, administrative law and access to information law. She has represented the OIPC on numerous judicial review proceedings in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Tamara is ranked by Chambers Canada 2018 in the area of Privacy & Data Protection. Tamara is also recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (Privacy and Data Security Law, Administrative and Public Law, and Corporate and Commercial Litigation) 2019, and is Distinguished® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Tamara Hunter leads DLA Piper Canada’s Privacy, Data Protection and Security practice in Canada and is based in the firm’s Vancouver office. She has 17 years’ experience advising and representing clients on privacy, data protection and security and on access to information matters.
Tamara has extensive experience advising on privacy compliance issues, anti-spam law compliance, information security breaches, privacy impact assessments and has conducted numerous proactive privacy reviews and audits, and has developed and provided information security breach plans (both proactive and responsive), breach reports to privacy regulators, as well as privacy training.
Tamara has represented numerous organizations (both private sector and public sector) before Canadian privacy regulators, including the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for Alberta and the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner. She has been lead counsel on numerous inquiry proceedings before the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia. Tamara has represented organizations in litigation related to privacy and data protection issues before the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the British Columbia Court of Appeal and the Federal Court of Canada.
Tamara also regularly advises and represents the privacy regulator in British Columbia. She has been named by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia as a qualified lawyer approved to act on its behalf in matters relating to privacy protection law, administrative law and access to information law. She has represented the OIPC on numerous judicial review proceedings in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Tamara is ranked by Chambers Canada 2018 in the area of Privacy & Data Protection. Tamara is also recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (Privacy and Data Security Law, Administrative and Public Law, and Corporate and Commercial Litigation) 2019, and is Distinguished® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
