Prior to joining Google he worked as a privacy lawyer in Toronto, focusing on privacy issues in health care. He has published numerous peer reviewed articles on software engineering and privacy law. He is a member of the MIT CSAIL Big Data privacy working group, and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health security working group. In recent years he has also served as an adjunct professor of law at Osgoode Hall and Stanford law schools, teaching privacy law and legal information technology. In addition to his duties with Google, he is chipping away at a PhD thesis in computer science at the University of Toronto, investigating computational methods for analyzing the dynamics of complex infrastructure systems.