{"id":237985,"date":"2026-05-29T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ann-cavoukian-we-have-to-protect-privacy-globally-or-we-protect-it-nowhere"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:15:29","slug":"ann-cavoukian-we-have-to-protect-privacy-globally-or-we-protect-it-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ann-cavoukian-we-have-to-protect-privacy-globally-or-we-protect-it-nowhere","title":{"rendered":"Ann Cavoukian: We have to protect privacy globally or we protect it nowhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ann-cavoukian-we-have-to-protect-privacy-globally-or-we-protect-it-nowhere.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/202772078-singularity1on1-ann-cavoukian.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>I recorded this interview 13 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It should feel dated by now. It doesn\u2019t. It feels like a prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2013, Dr. Ann Cavoukian sat down with me as the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and the mind behind Privacy by Design. She told me privacy was not dead. She told me security and freedom were not a trade-off. She told me metadata reveals more about you than the content ever could.<\/p>\n<p>Then she said something I have never been able to shake:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to protect privacy globally, or we protect it nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Think about where we are now. Surveillance is the business model. Your data trains systems you will never see. The \u201cnothing to hide\u201d crowd got louder, and the borders she warned about got thinner. She saw all of it coming.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ann-cavoukian-we-have-to-protect-privacy-globally-or-we-protect-it-nowhere\">Continue reading \u201cAnn Cavoukian: We have to protect privacy globally or we protect it nowhere!\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded this interview 13 years ago. It should feel dated by now. It doesn\u2019t. It feels like a prophecy. Back in 2013, Dr. Ann Cavoukian sat down with me as the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and the mind behind Privacy by Design. She told me privacy was not dead. She told me [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1492,64,1511,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-security","category-singularity","category-surveillance","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}