Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy, K Royal and Paul Breitbarth connect with Shoshana Rosenberg , Deputy General Counsel for Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Strategy, as well as CPO and Vice President at WSP USA . However, our conversation is more around the focus of SafePorter , a data trust providing valuable business insights, while respecting the privacy of employees. In essence, the topic is how to address diversity, inclusion, and equity efforts and goals without compromisin...
Mar 02, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy, K Royal and Paul Breitbarth provide an update on recent happenings in both Europe and the US, some of which are surprising and the other makes no waves across the ocean. First, an unexpected agreement on the ePrivacy Regulation by the EU Members States. This does not mean that the regulation is passed - on the contrary, the Parliament and the European Commission are nearly at polar opposites. They will now enter what is called the “ trialogue ” ...
Feb 23, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy, K Royal is joined by guest co-host Ralph O’Brien to speak about what one privacy professional did with his free time over the pandemic. Most of us may have started a new hobby - so did Jeff Jockisch , founder and CEO of PrivacyPlan . First, he achieved his Certified Information Privacy Professional for US privacy law from the International Association of Privacy Professionals . His studying process took him to books such as Peter Swire’s , and p...
Feb 18, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy, K Royal is joined by guest co-host Ralph O’Brien , who brings that United Kingdom perspective to data protection. As a well-known and respected privacy professional, Ralph took the opportunity to discuss some of the current hot topics in privacy with K, such as the impact of # Brexit on managing privacy programs in Europe . Join us as we discuss the UK General Data Protection Regulation and how it was adopted and adapted from the EU GDPR and wha...
Feb 09, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Send us a text Happy Data Protection Day ! Paul Breitbarth and K Royal kick off Season 2 of the Serious Privacy podcast with a special guest, Helen Dixon , Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland . She is probably one of the best known data protection regulators around the world, with her office having the duty to supervise most major tech companies doing business in Europe. That comes with a lot of public scrutiny, and also with some fierce criticism. In this episode, Commissioner Dixon talks ...
Jan 28, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Send us a text We look back to January 2020 - with no crystal ball for Serious Privacy with Paul Breitbarth and K Royal . With 47 episodes and over 25,000 downloads, Season 1 of Serious Privacy is complete. Thank you to our fans! Season 2 starts Global Privacy Day 2021. Our initial ideas were a little different , but K and Paul found their rhythm and a following. Join us as we look back, play some of our favorite moments, and look ahead to 2021. Our most popular episodes were What Now Right Now?...
Dec 29, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Send us a text On 17 November 2020, the Canadian Minister of Information Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains, introduced bill C-11, the long-awaited update to the federal Canadian privacy legislation. For many years, this legislative update had been rumoured, and now that it was finally put on the table, we can see some sweeping changes. The Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020, which includes the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, "would significantly increase protections to ...
Dec 15, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Send us a text Since the Schrems-II judgment came down on July 16th, the message has slowly sunk in that Europe is serious about looking at privacy and data protection through the glasses of fundamental rights protection. That was even reinforced by the Privacy International and Quadrature du Net cases , published at the start of October. Any interference with the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection, needs to be limited in time, scope and content, according to the courts, as well a...
Dec 08, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Send us a text Technology brings new demands for compliance, especially given the amount of personal data collected through various means and how it is both used and combined. However, technology can also be used to assist compliance professionals by providing the necessary information quickly. In most of the Serious Privacy episodes, co-hosts Paul Breibarth and K Royal have discussed one or more specific data protection and privacy related topics. With guest Shub Nandi , the CEO and Founder of ...
Dec 03, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Send us a text Live! (okay recorded with a live studio audience) from our offices at a fabulous virtual conference - the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society , discussing Public Interest Technologies in a four day long global online conference. This is a first for Serious Privacy, recording an episode live as part of the conference presentation. In normal times, this conference would have taken place face-to-face, facilitating lots of participants to debate their papers wi...
Nov 25, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Send us a text In just a single week, so much has happened. The California Privacy Rights Act was passed by voters and will come into effect on 1 January 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union once again confirmed that consent is not valid when relying upon pre-ticked boxes, and the European Data Protection Board issued its Recommendations on international data transfers in the wake of the Schrems-II ruling. In the meantime, Finland is dealing with a major health-related data breach , ...
Nov 18, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Send us a text This past week, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted it’s Recommendations on international data transfers post Schrems-II and the European Commission released the long-awaited draft of new standard contractual clauses . At the same time, the EDPB adopted an updated version of their earlier guidelines on the European Essential Guarantees : criteria that a third country’s (non-European Economic Area country) legislation needs to meet in order to justify an interference ...
Nov 16, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Send us a text Privacy and data protection are not just a job for lawyers or professionals who specialize in privacy - not anymore. Technology plays an important role in ensuring personal data can remain private. Ensuring that personal data is secure but useful requires a level of skill found in data scientists. In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth and K Royal searched for just such a skilled individual, Katharine Jarmul , the Head of Product at Cape Privacy , and a data scientis...
Nov 10, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Send us a text Election day in the United States is quite the dramatic event in 2020. We may soon know who will be the President of the United States in the coming years, what the new U.S. Congress will look like, if there might be a chance of federal privacy legislation and an EU-U.S. adequacy deal passing in the coming years, and if California Proposition 24 (the California Privacy Rights Act or “CPRA”) has made the grade. But the election process itself carries privacy implications and of cou...
Nov 03, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Send us a text Technology around the world changes quickly - fast and furiously. Unique companies solving problems we did not realize we had are hitting the market. For example, the development of always connected mobile devices has fundamentally changed the global banking system. Where before in many parts of the world people were devoid of having a bank account, nowadays a smartphone gives them access to financial services wherever they are with mobile payments, cryptocurrencies, and fully vir...
Oct 27, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Send us a text Putting the evils back in Pandora’s box just doesn’t seem possible - much like reclaiming privacy in today’s datacentric world. This week, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal hosted Rob Shavell, CEO and founder of Abine (rhymes with hey mine) to discuss consumer privacy controls related to online privacy. Just over a decade ago, the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) started the development of a Do Not Track (DNT) standard, that would limit the way in which people could be tracked between we...
Oct 20, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Send us a text Events happen occasionally that reinforce each other in such a way that the sum of things is worse than you could ever have imagined: a perfect storm. You may very well say that 2020 is a perfect storm in itself. And who knows what November and December may bring. This week, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal invited Stuart N. Brotman , author of Privacy's Perfect Storm: Digital Policy for Post-Pandemic Times . Brotman took the notion of the perfect storm as the basis for a book abo...
Oct 14, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Send us a text Wicked problems are those without simple answers. They are thorny, complex, multi-faceted issues. This episode of Serious Privacy by Paul Breitbarth and K Royal was pre-billed on social media as “talking anarchy” and “Serious Privacy-ing.” In this episode, guests include Uber CPO and frustrated comedian Ruby Zefo , Godmother of Privacy Engineering Michelle Dennedy , and TrustArc’s General Counsel Hilary Wandall . Given the breadth and depth of the experience combined across this g...
Oct 07, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Send us a text If 2020 was not bad enough already, we lost Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18 , 2020. She was admired by many lawyers and legal scholars, not just in the United States - she was a legal giant, and a great advocate for equality for all. Paul Breitbarth and K Royal discuss the impact Justice Ginsburg had on the legal field and how she inspired respect and devotion. Our homage goes beyond her legal decisions to remember her as the icon she was, and always will be. In addition, Paul...
Sep 29, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Send us a text 2020 is the gift that keeps on giving. In this episode, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal revisit some of the issues discussed on previous episodes, but with a guest who has a unique global perspective. Our guest today is an American in Brussels. He is the Deputy Chief Privacy Officer of the US-based pharmaceutical company Merck . Chris Foreman has practiced law in London, Washington DC, Istanbul, New York and Moscow, and is currently based in Brussels. Merck , or MSD as it is often kno...
Sep 22, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Send us a text This past week in privacy law saw several unexpected developments. When this podcast started back in January, the intention was to record a series of conversations between K Royal and Paul Breitbarth with an occasional guest or recorded conference panel discussion. They would discuss what had happened in a week, place privacy and data protection developments around the world in context and provide insights based on their experience… And then COVID-19 happened, the podcast quickly ...
Sep 14, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Send us a text Privacy professionals as cosplayers - maintaining a sense of identity away from the hectic life of a privacy professional or managing stress in a healthy direction? In this episode of Serious Privacy, we move away a little from data protection and over to the broader right of privacy. The right to be left alone, or the right to ensure you can be whoever you want to be, without your choices coming back to haunt you for the rest of your life. Join Paul Breitbarth and K Royal as they...
Sep 08, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Send us a text Privacy is the hottest new job market for attorneys and non-attorneys. Even more so when you consider the full range of data protection jobs. A few weeks ago, we spoke to Jared Coseglia with TRU STaffing about recruiting for functions in privacy. In this episode we look at the other side. What is it like for someone to get started in privacy, not by sheer coincidence like K Royal and Paul Breitbarth did many years ago, but by deliberate choice? Where do you get this crazy idea tha...
Sep 01, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Send us a text Now this story is all about how our lives got flipped - turned upside down. We’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, we’ll tell you all about the privacy laws down there. Today, we are traveling virtually to the sixth largest country in land area and in its honor, we are flipping parts of the show. We are upside down, since we are going Down Under. Since the beginning of the year, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal have mainly covered privacy developments in the United States, t...
Aug 24, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Send us a text With all the recent changes in privacy laws, it seems like a whole new world. Or perhaps not. In this episode, we connect with Travis LeBlanc , a well-seasoned professional with insight into government actions to discuss recent privacy developments through the lens of past actions. He was the chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Enforcement Bureau in the Obama years, worked as senior adviser to former California Attorney General - and now Vice-Presidential nomine...
Aug 18, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Send us a text The privacy job market is booming! Chief Privacy Officer, Data Protection Officer, Chief Data Officer, Privacy Engineer, GDPR Expert, CCPA Consultant, Data Privacy Counsel, Privacy Risk Officer… And this is just to get started. Do a vacancy search with the word ‘Privacy’ on LinkedIn or most job-search boards and you will be shown a huge variety of functions around the world for new and seasoned privacy professionals. Paul Breitbarth and K Royal invited the founder and CEO of TRU S...
Aug 11, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Send us a text Privacy is not a luxury, yet marginalized populations are more scrutinized and adversely impacted. How do we build equality into the data and practices on using data? It is no surprise that in today’s day and age, data is ubiquitous. Every step we take is documented by multiple devices, from our smartphones and smart watches to street cameras, allowing for massive data sets to be created. Hardly anyone understands all that is happening with these data, but we do know they are bein...
Aug 04, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Send us a text Privacy is like driving a car - lots of rules which change across borders and you need to look both ways before crossing the street. In both the US and EU, the Schrems-II decision on 16 July is a major development in data protection navigation. But we are just at the beginning of understanding all the consequences of the verdict of the EU Court of Justice . Don’t worry - also in the coming weeks, we’ve got you covered. #SeriousPrivacy will keep you posted on important developments...
Jul 28, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Send us a text The Schrems II decision is a Serious Privacy topic. Privacy professionals in the EU and the US had the 16th of July marked on their calendars for a long time. Today was the day the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union would publish their verdict in the case between the Irish Data Protection Commissioner on the one hand, and Facebook and Max Schrems on the other. The Schrems-II case, as it is commonly known, has made as much of an impact as its predecessor di...
Jul 16, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Send us a text The world of privacy seems to be both growing and becoming smaller as privacy professionals around the world are grappling with similar issues amidst an increasing amount of regulation and enforcement. What are the hot topics on the minds of these privacy professionals? In this episode of Serious Privacy, we issued an open invite to guests, welcomed a guest host Ralph O’Brien , and managed a robust conversation among 7 privacy professionals on the privacy topics that are on their ...
Jul 14, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 23
