Lyndsay leads McMillan’s Privacy & Data Protection Group nationally. She is a strategic advisor to organizations in a wide variety of industries, which collect, use, store and otherwise process personal information. She provides practical advice and solutions that allow clients to leverage data while meeting their regulatory obligations and maintaining consumer trust, based on her in-depth knowledge of privacy, data protection and cybersecurity laws across Canada.

Lyndsay helps clients conduct privacy impact assessments and develop comprehensive privacy compliance and vendor management programs, including designing appropriate policies and procedures, training, and template documents. With almost two decades of experience in privacy and data protection law, Lyndsay advises on a broad range of matters, including requirements and restrictions related to obtaining valid consent to process personal information, data security, employee privacy, handling sensitive personal information (including personal health information, financial information, biometrics, and demographic data), data analytics, web scraping, electronic monitoring, background checks, social media, smart homes, smart cars, IoT, AI, and transferring personal information across borders. She is adept at coordinating legal strategy with counsel in other jurisdictions, as well as assisting organizations to understand and reconcile differences between Canadian laws and legal requirements in other countries.