[2] As a lawyer she worked to modernize regulations and remove barriers to employment based on gender or cultural differences.
[2] On December 1, 2003, Stoddart was appointed Canada's Privacy Commissioner by the Governor in Council for a seven-year term.
In November 2005, a journalist showed Stoddart her own telecommunication-data for the past few months - the ones from her private connection as well as those from the blackberry-systems provided by the government - which he had bought by an online data broker for about $200.
She also serves as one of the board members on the social purpose corporation, Purism, which makes security-focused, Debian GNU/Linux based laptops & tablets.
[5] Jennifer Stoddart received a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD), at McGill University’s fall convocation ceremonies on Tuesday, November 10, 2015.