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Serious Privacy

Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth & Ralph O'Brienseriousprivacy.buzzsprout.com

For those who are interested in the hottest field in a technology world. Whether you are a professional who wants to learn more about privacy, data protection, or cyber law or someone who just finds this fascinating, we have topics for you from data management to cybersecurity to social justice and data ethics and AI. In-depth information on serious privacy topics.

This podcast, hosted by Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien, features open, unscripted discussions with global privacy professionals (those kitchen table or back porch conversations) where you hear the opinions and thoughts of those who are on the front lines working on the newest issues in handling personal data. Real information on your schedule - because the world needs serious privacy.


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Episodes

All messed up and places to go: a week in privacy plus Brussels (with Amit Ghadia)

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal bring you a different format, comprising separate updates along with Paul’s conversation with Amit Ghadia , a lawyer and a certified Global Data Protection Officer and trainer based in Nairobi with an office in Oxford, UK. Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up to date on laws across the globe. With TrustArc’s Privacy Studio and Governance Suite, you can aut...

Nov 22, 202331 minSeason 4Ep. 42

Norway is Nuts about Meta: The Urgency Ban with Tobias Judin

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Tobias Judin , the Head of the International Section at the Norwegian DPA and Co-Chair of the International Enforcement Working Group of the Global Privacy Assembly . Tobias has a background in law and informatics, which lends itself well to the recent investigations and actions by the Norwegian DPA. On 27 October 2023, the European Data Protection Board made a big decision. The urgent reque...

Nov 09, 202335 minSeason 4Ep. 41

Scary yet celebrated: Spooky AI (Woodrow Hartzog)

Send us a text Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Woodrow Hartzog , Professor of Law at the Boston University School of Law . He also has some other academic roles, including at Washington University , Harvard and Stanford . His research focuses on privacy, media, and technology. Recently, professor Hartzog testified before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate in a hearing on Oversight and Legislation on Artificial Intelligence . Last summer, Serious Privacy released ...

Nov 02, 202335 minSeason 4Ep. 40

A Week in Privacy (or Rather a Month...)

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal catch up on the data protection news from the past month, ranging from the annual Global Privacy Assembly, an ICO investigation into Snap and CSAM to digital ID cards, and much more. Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up to date on laws across the globe. With TrustArc’s Privacy Studio and Governance Suite, you can automate cookie compliance, streamline data...

Oct 26, 202336 minSeason 4Ep. 39

A Nordic Smörgåsbord - with Odia Kagan and the UK Bridge (and more)

Send us a text Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal bring you part III of the Nordic Privacy Arena. Odia Kagan is Partner and Chair of GDPR Compliance and International Privacy at Fox Rothschild LLP. You may very well know her from her LinkedIn posts, where she summarises data protection related news developments for a large audience, a little bit like we would do during a week in privacy episode. Odia is certainly not shy to give her opinion, as you will also hear in this episode. Powered by TrustAr...

Oct 19, 202339 minSeason 4Ep. 38

A Nordic Smörgåsbord - The Allan Frank interview

Send us a text The episode we released earlier this week missed a segment, that somehow disappeared in the final edit. The full episode is online now, but in case you have already listened, we also offer you the Allan Frank interview as a separate download. Enjoy the listen! Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up to date on laws across the globe. With TrustArc’s Privacy Studio and Governance Suite, you can automate cookie compliance, streamline data...

Oct 13, 20238 minSeason 4Ep. 37

A Nordic Smörgåsbord - Live from NPA23 Part II

Send us a text On 26 and 27 September 2023, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal attended for their first live podcast recording. But of course that was not the only recording they made during the Nordic Privacy Arena 2023. During the breaks and after the conference, K and Paul also interviewed some people, and those interviews you hear today. First up is Allan Frank , IT security specialist at the Danish Data Protection Agency, who talks about the Google Chromebook investigation. Next is...

Oct 12, 202348 minSeason 4Ep. 37

Live from Stockholm at NPA23!

Send us a text On 26 September 2023, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal recorded the first ever Serious Privacy Live, during the Nordic Privacy Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. In the past eight years, the NPA, organised by the Swedish Data Protection Forum , has become a staple on the European conference calendar. The podcast was the opening of the second conference day, with the request to look back on what was discussed during the first day, and look ahead at day two. This episode is the ...

Oct 05, 202331 minSeason 4Ep. 36

Honey, Where's the Kids' Data?

Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal talk about children's data, following the recent decision of the Irish Data Protection Commission in the TikTok case . Apart from a fine of 345 million Euro, the authority also ordered TikTok to change some of their policies, especially where children are concerned. Reason enough for us to dive a little deeper into children's data, age appropriate design, and what consent for children and th...

Sep 28, 202339 minSeason 4Ep. 35

Let's go Big: Privacy Class Action Lawsuits

Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss privacy class action lawsuits featuring articles and information from Law.com with Richard Sheinis of Hall Booth Smith and Lisa Jaffee of Hiscox Insurance on Law.com about the class action “kill chain, ” and one from Miller Nash by Brian Esler and Eva Novik on the new wave of class action lawsuits, featuring the Video Privacy Protection Act - and of course, mentioning our friends Ian Ballon of...

Sep 21, 202326 minSeason 4Ep. 34

A long week in Privacy with Paul and Dr.K

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss a lot of events in a long week of privacy as they lead up to attending the Nordic Privacy Arena , including The Norwegian Data Protection Authority ordering Meta to stop personalized advertising , Fairplay and the Center for Digital Democracy ( calling for investigation related to Google ads and COPPA ), Gatekeepers, China, S. Korea, SmartCars, Mozilla’s study on connected cars , OpenAI’s enterpr...

Sep 13, 202340 minSeason 4Ep. 33

The Ecstasy and Agony of Privacy in India with Malavika Raghavan

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss the newly passed Digital Personal Data Act in India with Malavika Raghavan , PhD candidate in Information Systems and Innovation at the London School of Economics and Senior Fellow for India at the Future of Privacy Forum. Malavika is a lawyer with a background in policy-focused research, studying the impacts of digitisation on low-income individuals in India. In the past, she also worked several...

Sep 06, 202340 minSeason 4Ep. 32

If it's broken, fix it (UK breaches with Ralph O'Brien)

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Ralph O’Brien (together in a long time) to discuss some of the data breaches happening in the UK, such as a breach of the electoral records and police officers in Northern Ireland , historical breach statistics , and more. Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up to date on laws across the globe. With TrustArc’s Privacy Studio and Governance Su...

Aug 24, 202338 minSeason 4Ep. 31

Privacy Popcorn with Paul and K

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal share a healthy serving of privacy popcorn featuring India’s new law , Georgia's new law , Meta news, Argentina and Kenya and Worldcoin , China, NIST Cybersecurity Framework call for comment s, and more, including California's adequacy decision from the Dubai International Financial Center. Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up to date on laws ...

Aug 16, 202334 minSeason 4Ep. 30

A good week in privacy with Paul and Dr. K

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , powered by TrustArc , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal sum up recent developments in privacy, including Meta's intent to change its legal basis and offer Europeans a choice , a notable breach in the United Kingdom involving a former politician Nigel Farage and a CEO resigning due to a breach , a TikTok decision about its practices with minors , Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up...

Aug 10, 202336 minSeason 4Ep. 29

Tackling the Tough Topics: CSAM (Dr. Teresa Quintel and Alexander Hanff)

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal tackle a topic that much trigger strong reactions, Child Sexual Abuse Materials or CSAM. Our guests today have worked a lot on this topic. Dr Teresa Quintel is attached to Maastricht University and mainly works on issues related to data protection in the law enforcement sector. Alexander Hanff is a long-time privacy activist. Both were participants in a panel discussion on the same topic during this year’...

Aug 03, 202340 minSeason 4Ep. 28

Big tech in a small world (with Tom Kemp)

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Tom Kemp , a Silicon Valley based author, entrepreneur, investor, and policy advisor. He founded a cybersecurity cloud provider and was one of the drivers behind the campaign to adopt the CPRA in California. And now he has written a book containing big tech that is out later this summer. Whether we look at the whole range of new legal requirements, from the European Digital Services and M...

Jul 26, 202336 minSeason 4Ep. 27

Mega Meta Privacy (Romain Robert and Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna)

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna , vice president for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum , and Romain Robert , Program Director and lawyer at NOYB to discuss the new landmark decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union : Meta v Bundeskartellamt , where the Court not only decided that competition authorities can use data protection when deciding on the potential abuse of a domina...

Jul 18, 202349 minSeason 4Ep. 26

Privacy Live - a week (a day...) in Privacy

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal catch up on a busy 48 hours in the world of privacy and data protection. Their conversation goes from a new landmark decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union to updates on the Thingy to new FTC nominations to a proposed EU law on the cooperation between data protection authorities. They also touch on China, Nigeria, India, Ireland, Argentina, and in the U.S. ... Delaware. Whew. Links: Me...

Jul 12, 202339 minSeason 4Ep. 25

A week in Privacy with fines, new laws, and Snowden!

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal take you on a fast-paced global tour for privacy developments, including Oregon sending a privacy bill to the governor , Texas passing a privacy law , Connecticut enhancing its privacy law , Apple’s announcement on Child Sexual Abuse Materia l, the parliamentary monsoon session in India , and two items out of the Swedish DPA - a fine on Spotify and Bonnier News . Also, we briefly touch on the 10th ann...

Jul 05, 202332 minSeason 4Ep. 24

Working hard for the money: Privacy in the DIFC (with Lori Baker)

Send us a text While Dr. K Royal is traveling, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki turns our attention to the Middle East for this episode of Serious Privacy . He speaks with Lori Baker , the Vice President Legal & Director of Data Protection for the DIFC Commissioner’s Office. The DIFC - the Dubai International Financial Center - has a special status in the United Arab Emirates and therefore also their own data protection law, going back to 2004. Paul and Lori talk about data protection in the Emir...

Jun 29, 202337 minSeason 4Ep. 23

AI: Not so Intelligent and not so Artificial

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss all things #AI - or at least all the basics, in light of the EU Parliament passing the #AIAct last week. In addition, the US has active measures evaluating AI (such as appointing VP Kamala Harris as AI Czar , US National AI initiative ), the # OECD efforts , and various uses of AI, e.g., Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (#LAWS) , facial recognition technology , # chatGPT , and# non-consensual...

Jun 21, 202336 minSeason 4Ep. 22

Nomadic Privacy - A World full of topics with R. Jason Cronk

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal connects with R. Jason Cronk , infamous privacy professional extraordinaire. Topics include a brief weekly update on privacy events, The Rise of Privacy Tech ( TROPT) and its summit , led by Lourdes Turrecha , privacy frameworks, such as NIST privacy and 800-53 , ISO27001 , appendix A , ISO 27701 , his new podcast with the BBB , privacy abbreviated with Donna Fraser , his book with IAPP strategic Privacy by Desig n, his non-profit t...

Jun 15, 202341 minSeason 4Ep. 21

Vendor Management - it's a real thing

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford and Company tackle the tough topic of vendor management. As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn , Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier. Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess ris...

Jun 07, 202339 minSeason 4Ep. 20

Big Developments this week - with Ralph O'Brien

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal joins with co-host Ralph O’Brien , while Paul Brietbarth of Catawiki is off conferencing, to discuss recent developments in privacy. Tune in to catch us discuss the Meta penalty from the Irish Data Protection Commission , the IAB Trust and Consent Framework 2.0 (in its continuing saga with the Belgian DPA ), and concepts of controller and processor. Some resources we discuss are the Meta news release , noyb’s news release on Meta’s ...

Jun 01, 202329 minSeason 4Ep. 19

A non-earth shattering week in privacy

Send us a text It's travel time again, so Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal just chat among themselves about some developments in the world of privacy and data protection. They look ahead at the Meta fine that was supposed to be coming shortly (and has now been announced: $1.2 billion in fines and a serious compliance order - more here ), you'll get an update on the U.S. state law developments and some AI developments including a vote on the EU AI Act, and Paul goes on a rant...

May 25, 202336 minSeason 4Ep. 18

viva México: A chat with INAI (Dr. Jonathan Mendoza)

Send us a text In this episode of # Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal turn their attention to #Mexico and the wider Latin American data protection developments. Their guest is Dr. Jonathan Mendoza , the Secretary of Personal Data Protection at the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information, and Personal Data Protection . #INAI is the federal data protection authority in Mexico, and one of the few data protection authorities to host the Global Privacy As...

May 18, 202331 minSeason 4Ep. 17

Around the world in a week in privacy

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal have an opportunity to catch up on a week on privacy. As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn , Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier. Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up...

May 10, 202335 minSeason 4Ep. 16

My Health, My Data, My Goodness - The new WA law (with Mike Hintze)

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Mike Hintze of Hintze Law to discuss the newly enacted Washington My Health, My Data law . Passed by both houses quickly, but not unanimously, this new law has taken the US privacy law world by storm. Join us to discover the strengths and concerns around this act - and what your business may need to know. Mike has also a series of blog posts covering this topic: catch them all starting wi...

May 03, 202338 minSeason 4Ep. 15

150 episodes - A bloody good time with the EDPS, Wojciech Wiewiorowski

Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal celebrate the 150th episode of Serious Privacy. To celebrate this milestone, we have invited a special guest to join us this week: Wojciech Wiewiorowski , the European Data Protection Supervisor . Before that, Wojciech was the chair of the Polish DPA . He has a long background working on privacy, data protection and electronic governance issues, working both in the public sector and academia, at Gdáns...

Apr 27, 202341 minSeason 4Ep. 14
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