Tamara Nielsen is a member of the firm's litigation group. She practises in the areas of freedom of information and privacy law, administrative law and professional regulation law.
Tamara co-leads DLA Piper Canada’s Privacy, Data Protection and Security practice in Canada and is based in the firm’s Vancouver office. She has 17 years’ experience advising and representing clients on privacy, data protection and security and on access to information matters.
Tamara has extensive experience advising on...
Tamara Nielsen is a member of the firm's litigation group. She practises in the areas of freedom of information and privacy law, administrative law and professional regulation law.
Tamara co-leads DLA Piper Canada’s Privacy, Data Protection and Security practice in Canada and is based in the firm’s Vancouver office. She has 17 years’ experience advising and representing clients on privacy, data protection and security and on access to information matters.
Tamara has extensive experience advising on privacy compliance issues, anti-spam law compliance, information security breaches, privacy impact assessments and has conducted numerous proactive privacy reviews and audits (including as a global team member for global clients). Tamara has developed and provided information security breach plans (both proactive and responsive), breach reports to privacy regulators, as well as privacy training. Examples of Tamara’s client work in these areas include organizations such as hotel/restaurant chains, retail financial institutions, retail clothing chains, logistics suppliers, insurance providers, medical device suppliers, minor sport associations and public utilities, as well as several educational institutions and professional regulatory bodies.
Tamara has represented numerous organizations (both private sector and public sector) before Canadian privacy regulators, including the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for Alberta and the federal Office of the Information Commissioner. She has been lead counsel on numerous inquiry proceedings before the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia. Tamara has represented organizations in litigation related to privacy and data protection issues before the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the British Columbia Court of Appeal and the Federal Court of Canada.
Tamara also regularly advises and represents the privacy regulator in British Columbia. She has been named by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia as a qualified lawyer approved to act on its behalf in matters relating to privacy protection law, administrative law and access to information law. She has represented the OIPC on numerous judicial review proceedings in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Born in New Westminster, B.C., Tamara obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University in 1988. She received the Chancellor’s Entrance Scholarship and majored in both economics and business administration.
Tamara then attended the University of British Columbia where she received her Law Degree in 1990.