INQ CONSULTING NEWS
INQ Consulting welcomes Basia Walczak and Kaitlyn Hebert to our team!
Basia joins us as a privacy manager. Basia has extensive experience working on behalf of governments, regional and multilateral organizations, as well as an international corporate law firm where she advised technology companies. Basia's diverse experience, education and training allow her to address our clients’ privacy, data protection, and technology governance needs from a wide variety of angles.
As a Certified Information Privacy Professional, Kaitlyn brings an understanding of the Canadian industry and the underlying applicable laws that govern personal information management. She also holds Virtual Care and CORE-HI certifications from Digital Health Canada. This interplay of knowledge helps to inform how digital data—particularly personal health information—flows and how privacy and security work together to achieve mutual ends. She is a student of privacy and is constantly learning about new risks and emerging global markets.
Kaitlyn served as the Privacy Officer for a Canadian tech startup, where she built their privacy management program from the ground up. This role helped shape her experience with provincial health privacy acts across Canada, including other countries’ privacy laws, such as HIPAA (USA) and GDPR. After nearly 20 years of experience in various health related fields, Kaitlyn brings diverse perspectives to her work. She can quickly learn her client’s needs, meet them where they are in their journey, and equip them to become more confident in their understanding and implementation of a successful privacy program.
Visit our website here to learn more about Basia, Kaitlyn and the whole INQ team.
INQ Consulting Supports D2L’s AI Governance Efforts
In 2023, D2L, a large, global ed-tech company, was looking to rapidly implement AI governance and oversight mechanisms to inform responsible AI procurement, development, and deployment. INQ was engaged to build a series of policies and procedures to support the responsible and safe use of artificial intelligence, including its use in fair and productive learning experiences. In addition, INQ provided the organization with a 12-month roadmap to prioritize its AI governance efforts.
How it Started
D2L had been on a journey to establish principles and processes to promote the ethical use of AI and generative AI, culminating in the question: how can we enable the use of AI while considering its ethical implications? At the time, the organization had few AI-specific governance processes and mechanisms.
How it’s Going
Together, INQ and D2L worked to rapidly develop a series of policies and recommend prioritized enhancements to existing AI governance and oversight mechanisms. Specifically, INQ delivered:
AI Policy, formally defining the term ‘AI’ for the enterprise and outlining specific roles & responsibilities regarding its oversight, including suggesting net-new governance structures
Acceptable Use Policy, formally defining what is deemed acceptable and unacceptable regarding AI use
Terms of Reference for an AI Working Group to oversee AI-related efforts across the organization
enhanced Vendor Due Diligence Assessment
enhanced Vendor Addendum
prioritized 12-month roadmap
The result? INQ helped to identify areas of AI risk specific to D2L and develop a roadmap to build out an operational AI governance ecosystem. Today, INQ’s work is being leveraged by D2L to prioritize and embed AI governance across the organization.
INQ Consulting Leads the Development of a Plain Language Data Lexicon Standard with Roche
Angela Power of INQ has worked closely with Roche to develop a Plain Language Data Lexicon Standard aimed at standardizing health data terminology for seamless communication in healthcare. Now, the Digital Data Governance Council (DDGC) has launched a public consultation for the Health Data and Information Lexicon Standard (CAN/CIOSC 116) which seeks to solicit feedback and iterate on the proposed standard.
Participants who wish to provide feedback or comments are encouraged to do so here.
INQ LAW NEWS
INQ Lawyers Recognized as Best Lawyers® Canada, 2024
INQ Law is pleased to announce that Mary Jane Dykeman, David Goodis, Shanon Grauer, Kathy O'Brien, Simmie Palter, Ira Parghi, Carole Piovesan, and Samara Starkman have all been recognized as Best Lawyers® in The Best Lawyers in Canada (2024 Edition). Congratulations to all!
INQ Law Supports Organizations Comply with Amendments to the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act
The Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 (ONCA) was proclaimed in force on October 19, 2021.
Not-for-profit corporations previously incorporated under Ontario’s Corporations Act have three years to transition to the new Act. This usually requires updating the corporation’s By-laws, doing articles of amendment to revise letters patent, and filing such changes with the Ontario business registry. Sometimes corporations take this opportunity to do a broader governance review. Some corporations also ask us to create or update a governance handbook, provide governance orientation to their board of directors or help with meeting notices, proxies and director recruitment strategies.
INQ Law is currently helping dozens of not-for-profit and charitable clients complete the transition. Such clients include hospitals, long-term care homes, family health teams, health profession associations, children’s aid societies, an administrative authority, and community agencies.
Additional amendments to the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act were added earlier this year and these are scheduled to take effect October 1, 2023. These amendments:
clarify particulars about holding electronic meetings, and giving notice, voting at, and adjourning such meetings;
provide that corporate records may be kept electronically and certain records may be accessed remotely by identified persons; and
clarify that the composition of any audit committee must include at least one Director.
For not-for-profit corporations that already completed the transition to ONCA, additional By-law amendments may be needed. Please reach out to Kathy O’Brien, Shanon Grauer or Simmie Palter if you would like advice on the transition or on broader corporate governance matters.
INQ SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
September 19:
Speaker: Carole Piovesan
Harnessing AI - Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Vancouver, British Columbia
September 21:
Speaker: Ira Parghi
Mock OCI Interviews & Expert Advice Panel - bit.ly/SABAOCI
September 27:
Speaker: Carole Piovesan
Elevate Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario - https://elevatefestival.ca/festival-speakers/carole-piovesan/
Gaps in Public Cyber Policy: Are We Keeping Up?
Navigating the AI Frontier: Regulation and Responsible AI Adoption
October 3:
Speaker: David Goodis
Maintaining Privacy in a Hybrid World - https://store.lso.ca/professionalism-and-practice-management-issues-in-administrative-law-2023
October 5:
Speaker: David Goodis
Canadian Institute Congress on Real Time Crime Center Operations & Tech Integration - https://www.canadianinstitute.com/rtcc/agenda/panel-leveraging-surveillance-technology-within-privacy-law-limits-what-crosses-the-line/
October 10:
Speaker: Ira Parghi
Data Protection in Healthcare -https://oba.informz.ca/informzdataservice/onlineversion/ind/bWFpbGluZ2luc3RhbmNlaWQ9MTQ0MDEzOSZzdWJzY3JpYmVyaWQ9OTI3MDIzODA5