Claire is an experienced privacy and cybersecurity lawyer who partners with organizations to navigate the increasingly complex global privacy, cybersecurity and AI regulatory landscape.
As part of her data privacy practice, Claire provides strategic counselling and advice on privacy, digital innovation, and online safety matters to clients across many industries (retail, gaming, ecommerce, mobile apps, social media, financial services, and technology), including how to mitigate risks associated with the collection, use, retention, disclosure, transfer and disposal of personal information.
Claire also has deep experience as a trusted advisor to clients in crisis management and has acted on some of Canada’s most high-profile privacy regulatory investigations at the provincial and federal levels. In the event of a security incident, Claire helps organizations respond, guiding them through investigation, remediation, notification and any ensuing regulatory investigations and inquiries.
Claire is called to the bar in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta, providing her with a unique national perspective on privacy law compliance matters.
Beyond her regular commercial practice, Claire has become well known as a leading Canadian legal professional in the area of intimate privacy, deepfake technology, and online harms.
Most recently, she has acted as an expert advisor to B.C.’s Civil Resolutions Tribunal (Canada’s first online tribunal tasked with expediting the process by which targets of nonconsensual distribution of intimate images may seek civil recourse under B.C.’s Intimate Images Protection Act) and the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)’s Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence Commission. She is also the founder of a non-profit (The Intimate Privacy Project), which provides practical and legal resources to targets of online harassment to help enhance access to justice in this area of law.
In 2024, Claire was shortlisted for a national privacy law award by PICCASO Canada for her contributions in this developing area of Canadian privacy law.