Today Breckenhill announced their CEO, William (Bill) Wilson has completed his term as Chief Privacy Technologist with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC).  Mr. Wilson was working with the OPC under an Interchange Agreement since 2009.  

During his term Mr. Wilson helped to build capacity within the OPC to meet the ever increasing challenges of examining and evaluating the adequacy of IT controls employed by government and business to protect the personal information of Canadians.

From June 2009 until July 2011 Mr. Wilson held the role of Senior Advisor within the Audit and Review Branch.  While there, he was responsible for defining, conducting and reporting on the IT components of audits related to the protection of personal information for both public and private sector organizations.  These audits included:

• Personal Information Disposal Practices in Selected Federal Institutions
• The Protection of Personal Information in Wireless Technology - An Examination of Selected Federal Institutions
• Audit of the Passenger Protect Program - Transport Canada
• Audit of Selected RCMP Operational Databases
• Audit Report of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada - Staples Business Depot
• Audit of Selected Mortgage Brokers
• Privacy and Aviation Security: An Examination of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority
• Privacy Audit of Canadian Passport Operations
• Assessing the Privacy Impacts of Programs, Plans, and Policies

As Chief Privacy Technologist Mr. Wilson lead the Technology Analysis Branch.  In this role he was responsible for increasing the technical capabilities of the OPC by teaming together the brightest and best research technologists and IT auditors and building the technology lab into a world leading privacy research facility.