Jaime Cardy

Jaime Cardy is a Senior Associate in Dentons' Privacy and Cybersecurity group in the Toronto office. Her practice focuses on Data Protection Law.

She acts on behalf of clients across multiple sectors and highly regulated industries, including technology, retail, financial services, insurance, real estate, automotive, public sector and healthcare.

Jaime's practice focuses on the full range of privacy, access to information, data governance, regulatory compliance and related consumer protection matters. As a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/C), she assists clients on a range of strategic and practical data governance matters, including developing privacy management programs, breach planning and incident response, representing clients before privacy regulators, advising on privacy compliance and risk in complex corporate transactions involving data-based assets and cross-border data flows, responding to data subject rights requests, handling freedom of information matters, complying with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation and Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules, and counselling clients on various other initiatives involving personal information. She regularly addresses novel issues raised by modern processing of personal information, such as the use of biometrics, artificial intelligence and online behavioural advertising.

Prior to joining Dentons, Jaime was an adjudicator at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, where she conducted hearings and issued binding orders on appeals and complaints under Ontario's provincial, municipal and health sector privacy legislation. She is highly skilled in interpreting and advising on both privacy and access to information issues.

She received her Juris Doctor from Western University and completed her Masters in Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. During her law school career, she was both a research and teaching assistant, and gained valuable experience as a student-at-law at Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and as an intern in the Health and Human Rights Department at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

She is recognised by Chambers Canada for Privacy & Data Protection, by The Legal 500 Canada for Artificial Intelligence, and by The Best Lawyers in Canada – Ones to Watch for Privacy and Data Security Law.

She is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), and holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional for Canada (CIPP/C) certification. She has served on the Ontario Bar Association's Privacy and Access to Information Law Section Executive, including as Past-Chair (2022–2023), Chair (2021–2022) and Vice-Chair (2020–2021), and was a Research Ethics Board Member at University Health Network (2018–2021).