James Williams (BA, BSc, JD, MSc) is an information technology professional currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. Currently serving as a privacy and security consultant with Blue Pebble Inc., he spends most of his time working in Ontario’s Community Care Information Management program. As an experienced software engineer, he is adept at dealing with privacy and security issues relating to information systems. Due to his law background, he also possesses significant skill in the areas of contract and privacy law.
In addition to his day job, Mr. Williams is a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Toronto under Steve Easterbrook. (He was formerly at the University of Victoria under Valerie King and Jens Weber). His main interests in computer science involve theory (logic, computability, complexity), algorithms (distributed, randomized) and artificial intelligence (multi-agent systems). His additional interests include software engineering, law, privacy, health informatics, and philosophy. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, and an author of numerous research papers.
In 2010, Mr. Williams and Dr. Jens Weber won two large grants from the federal privacy commissioner to study consumer health platforms and First Nations privacy concerns. This research was performed under the aegis of UVic’s Informational Privacy Interdisciplinary Research Group.