Joining the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in 2012, Brent Homan is Deputy Commissioner at the OPC, responsible for enforcement oversight of Canada’s federal public and private sector privacy laws.
Mr. Homan’s accomplishments in Privacy include key investigations such as: Clearview Facial Recognition (2021), Cadillac Fairview Facial Recognition (2020), Facebook/Cambridge Analytica (2019), Statistics Canada (2019), Equifax Breach (2018), the World Anti-Doping Association Breach (2017), Ashley Madison (2016), the Bell Advertising Program (2015), and Google Behavioural Advertising (2014).

With a rich background in International enforcement, Mr. Homan has joined forces with global partners, co-leading numerous international investigations including the Global Privacy Award winning Ashley Madison joint-investigation with Australia and the US FTC and the first ever international joint-investigation in the field of Privacy (against Whatsapp) with the Dutch. Mr. Homan also created and spearheaded the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) Privacy Sweep, now in its seventh year and involving 28 Privacy Authorities from around the world.

A leader in digital economy, Mr. Homan chairs a Global Privacy Working Group examining the growing intersection of privacy, consumer-protection and competition, and seeking to advance collaboration across these regulatory spheres.

Prior to his appointment at the OPC, Mr. Homan was Assistant Deputy Commissioner at the Competition Bureau of Canada where he led numerous high profile misleading advertising investigations in the areas of price representations, E-Commerce and Health Fraud. In the area of health, Mr. Homan led Canada’s Tobacco Inquiry into the use of Light and Mild descriptors, culminating in the removal of Light and Mild labelling from cigarette packaging across Canada.

Mr. Homan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Political Science from Carleton University, and a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Ottawa.