Send us a text This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool includes Eric Rind , CEO and founder of ImagineBC . Eric is a former HR consultant, turned tech entrepreneur. Who's trying to build a digital community to allow people to monetize their personal information. Every once in a while you hear a blockchain application that still spikes an interest and today's guest has developed such an application. The use of blockchain in relation to ...
Jul 06, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Send us a text This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool we go back to China discussing the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). You will actually be listening to the audio of a recent webinar organised by TrustArc, which they hosted together with former colleague Yi Lu. PIPL applies to all organisations doing business in China or targeting people in China and has significant compliance consequences similar to GDPR. Five months after its im...
Jun 29, 2022•53 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Send us a text This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool meet to discuss some recent events in the privacy and data protection world, such as the proposed American Data Protection and Privacy Act, as the hearings, featuring comments presented from Caitriona Fitzgerald, Deputy Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC); David Brody, Managing Attorney, Digital Justice Initiative, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ;...
Jun 22, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Send us a text This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool is a little different than the norm as the IAPP hosted its first Data Protection Intensive: Nederland 2022 . Although K could not attend, she and Paul discussed a couple of substantive questions he could ask to [unsuspecting] participants. And those interviewees were quite knowledgeable. They comprise Bart Voorn , Helen Graham , Jose Belo , Zach Foote , Monika Tomczak, Vanessa van Kuilenburg...
Jun 15, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Send us a text This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool connect with Paolo Balboni , who is attached to Maastricht University ’s European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity as Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law. Last March, researchers at Maastricht University published the first-ever complete Corporate Social Responsibility framework for data protection , aimed at improving privacy and security for a sustainable digital fu...
Jun 09, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , recorded on the anniversary of the GDPR ( watch the recent webinar ), Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool catch up on the past week or so in privacy. What exciting things - or not so exciting things have happened. Most seem to be in the area of cross-border transfers. Join us as we discuss some history with the GDPR, with a light mention of Connecticut’s new privacy law, Quebec’s Bill 64 , and People’s Republic of China’s P...
Jun 01, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool take some time to review recent events in the privacy / data protection world. This week, this means they cover the Connecticut Act concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act - the PDPOM… Paul has a cool name for it. Connecticut’s act passed on May 10, 2022 and takes effect July 1, 2023 - along with CPRA and Virginia on January 1, 2023; Colorado also on July 1, 2023; Utah o...
May 25, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool take some time to review recent events in the privacy / data protection world. This week, this means they cover the Connecticut Act concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act - the PDPOM… Paul has a cool name for it. Connecticut’s act passed on May 10, 2022 and takes effect July 1, 2023 - along with CPRA and Virginia on January 1, 2023; Colorado also on July 1, 2023; Utah o...
May 18, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal connect with Victoria Beckman , the lead over Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit for the Americas and an award-winning woman in cybersecurity. Victoria is a former law student of K’s at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and they both wound up in privacy-related fields. Of course, Victoria’s route to her current role was quite indirect, including a background in engineering. We focus on ...
May 12, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth introduces an episode where Dr. K Royal caught up with several individuals at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit held in Washington DC at the Marriott Marquis . It was a truly wonderful event, the first Global privacy Summit since 2019, with thousands of privacy professionals in attendance. Attendees included professionals from all over the world, those with nonprofits, with private companies, with start-up companies, government repr...
Apr 28, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Send us a text This episode of Serious Privacy, sponsored by TrustArc , heads south to Africa. Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool chat with Teki Akuetteh , the first Executive Director of the Ghana Data Protection Authority and current Chair of the Africa Digital Rights Hub . The conversation covered quite a bit of ground, starting with how privacy has developed in Africa, cybersecurity, and how enforcement has grown demonstrating the advance of privacy in Africa as a whole...
Apr 21, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy, sponsored by TrustArc , Paul Breitbarth and K Royal some with Angelique Carson . Angelique is currently with TerraTrue but Paul and K know her best from when she was with the IAPP , International Association of Privacy Professionals. Angelique had launched the IAPP's podcast years ago, where K was one the very first guests . The conversation flows from podcasts with its challenges and triumphs to how the privacy profession has grown over th...
Apr 13, 2022•49 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Send us a text In the 100th episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal connect with two of the biggest names in the privacy field, Chris Babel , the CEO of TrustArc and Hilary Wandall , Chief Compliance Officer at Dun and Bradstreet. Both Chris and Hilary were instrumental in launching Serious Privacy and critical to its success. In this completely unscripted and candid conversation, the four of them touch on both philisophical aspects of privacy and practical application. No to...
Apr 06, 2022•56 min•Season 3Ep. 100
Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool review what might seem to be small events in privacy developments, but are really robust once reviewed. They touch on a spotify case in Barcelona , the Spanish Data Protection Commissioner search on hold, and events in Belgium. In addition, on the US side, a DC judge ruled that Mark Zuckerberg could not be added to the Cambridge Analytica case personally. At the same time, the Irish DPC e...
Mar 30, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 99
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal catch up with the renowned Kirk Nahra , co-chair of both the Big Data Practice and the Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice for WilmerHale . K and Kirk have known each other for years - mostly related to US healthcare law, long before Kirk won the IAPP Vanguard Award in 2021 . They discuss the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountabilit Act of 1996, along with its subsequent amendments, known as HIPAA. But they al...
Mar 22, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Send us a text We live in strange times that often remind us how important it is to live our lives in freedom and to enjoy our fundamental rights. This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal talk about the war in Ukraine, but also about a lot of data protection related developments around the world. Topics include the new privacy law that is awaiting the Governor’s signature in Utah, proposed changes to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and the response of the European Data Pro...
Mar 17, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Send us a text This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal speak with Sjoera Nas . Sjoera is a long time privacy professional and privacy activist. She became involved with digital rights in the late 1990s and early 2000s, while working for the Dutch internet service provider XS4all, and later for civil rights group Bits of Freedom. But Sjoera is probably best known for her work at the Dutch Data Protection Authority, where she took the lead within the so-called Internet Team, lead...
Mar 10, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Send us a text In this week of Serious Privacy brought to you by TrustArc , Paul Breitbarth and K Royal share some news, discuss current events, and review both recent privacy developments and upcoming guests for the show. Topics covered include decisions involving tech companies, such as Facebook, Google, and Grindr, as well as general information on assessing risks. Join us as we discuss privacy from our perspective in the midst of a war in Europe. Our hearts and prayers go out to those impact...
Mar 03, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Send us a text In this week of Serious Privacy by TrustArc , K Royal and Paul Breitbarth have a conversation with Anne-Charlotte Recker and Julian Deckers of the Belgian Data Protection Authority. Both work for the DPAs Litigation Chamber, which on 2 February 2022 released their long-awaited decision on the legality of the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) developed by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The decision will likely have a significant impact on the future of cookie bann...
Feb 16, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Send us a text In this week of Serious Privacy by TrustArc , K Royal and Paul Breitbarth catch up with one of the oldest and most respected names in privacy, Marty Abrams , the Executive Director and Chief Strategist of the Information Accountability Foundation . Marty has 35 years of experience as an information and consumer policy innovator. Multi-stakeholder collaboration has been a key for him in developing practical solutions to dilemmas in information policy. The IAF has among other things...
Feb 10, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Send us a text On 28 January 1981, the Council of Europe opened up the Convention 108 , the world’s first globally binding instrument on the protection of personal data. Since 2007, the privacy community celebrates International Data Protection Day (Data Privacy Day). For #SeriousPrivacy, it is our season launch. K Royal and Paul Breitbarth talk about many of the recent developments in data protection and we play a new game: Privia Pursuit. Let us know if you think it has potential. Join them fo...
Jan 28, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Send us a text This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal say goodbye to season 2 of Serious Privacy and look forward to season 3. 2021 might be a year that many of us actually would like to forget but for the privacy community, it was an exciting year and a lot of good things have happened. We have new laws, new guidance, more enforcement and court decisions, and a continuously expanding field of privacy professionals. The podcast continued to grow - this is the 91st episode and ...
Dec 29, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Send us a text This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal take some time to review recent events or developments in privacy and data protection. With little happening in the U.S. (where is Ohio’s privacy law ?), the focus is more on Europe and India. K and Paul discuss the European Data Protection Board’s recent guidance on international transfers , the new decision by the Wiesbaden court (in Hesse, Germany) on cookies and the U.S., and the highest fine to date in the Netherlands ...
Dec 16, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Send us a text This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal speak with Lourdes Turrecha . Where a year of five ago many companies could still run their data protection and privacy compliance programs with email, spreadsheets and word files, today’s reality is completely different. Accountability, documentation and reporting requirements are much more detailed and widespread than they were before. Privacy technology is on the rise, and we sure know something about that at TrustArc ! ...
Dec 10, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Send us a text This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal take to the streets, so to speak, at the IAPP global conference in Brussels . Well, Paul did and K benefitted. Join us as we hear the thoughts, predictions, and worries of fabulous privacy professionals. [Paul relayed the comments that he received - it was humbling & heartwarming, so thank you! As much as you appreciate us, we return the respect tenfold.] Predictions and worries include thoughts on AI, using data for go...
Dec 02, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Send us a text This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth welcomes K Royal , the recently-approved PhD graduand (yes, it’s a word) fresh from her dissertation defense on Privacy Complaince in US Universities. Many of our listeners likely participated in the nearly-anonymous Delphi Method part of her research, where privacy professionals around the world answered a series of questions to determine critical parts about privacy in the university setting. These included triggers, program elements...
Nov 24, 2021•41 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Send us a text This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal jump back across the ocean to North America. While everyone is focused on the Chinese Personal Information Protection Law that was passed on August 20 and went into effect November 1, 2021, Quebec quietly passed Bill 64 , (C-11) “An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information.” It received assent on September 22, 2021, with a majority of its provisions coming into force over the...
Nov 17, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Send us a text What does a PhD dissertation, privacy books, the color of orange, and biometric legislation have in common? No, this is not some lame joke, but there is one of those in the episode. This week on Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth and K Royal present one of their back porch / kitchen table conversations. The episode may be slightly messy. It might be slightly longer than you are used to, but a lot of updates are covered since it's been so long since one of these episodes given ...
Nov 04, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Send us a text This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal revisit the Chinese Personal Information Protection Law that goes into effect just a few days after publication of this episode. K and I spoke about this law already in episode 30 of this season, dated 31 August, as well as during our webinar on 15 September. However, questions keep flooding in, so we decided to record a follow up episode. The guidance coming out of China is still limited, although it seems the Cyberspace A...
Oct 28, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth and K Royal connect with Jocelyn Paulley , Partner at Gowling WLG in London and Lindsey Schultz , Senior Counsel at Global Privacy for Visa. This episode is a preview of a session that Jocelyn, Lindsey, and K are presenting on along with Chris Oates , a partner at Gowling WLG in Toronto on Privacy Compliance in the AdTech Industry at the Association of Corporate Counsel 's Annual meeting of 2021 . Increasingly, advertising ...
Oct 20, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 36
