Steven Thomas is the section chief in charge of the Centre for Confidentiality and Access and is the Principal Confidentiality Officer at Statistics Canada.  

He has a degree in statistics from Memorial University of Newfoundland and has worked at Statistics Canada since 1997.

The confidentiality and access group is responsible for research, development and support for statistical disclosure control strategies for both economic and social statistics.

The disclosure control strategies include methods for the safe release of tabular data as well as public microdata files in the form of anonymized and synthetic datasets.