Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company connected with two key individuals at Europol : Daniel Drewer who is the head of Europol's data protection office and Jan Ellerman , one of the senior experts. Europol isn’t quite the way it is portrayed in the movies, so tune in for the real story. You can probably imagine the amount of personal data that is needed to make all the crime analysis. Because of that, Europo...
Apr 19, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company capture key moments of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit #GPS23. We chatted with privacy friends and those who shared breakfast or lunch with us - an audience participation table! Join us as we connect with Kelli Lu, Maggie Gloeckle , Jon Bourke , Lily Russell, Eduardo Ustaren , ShanShan Pa , Isabel Hahn , Gamelah Palagonia , ...
Apr 12, 2023•34 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Send us a text At the end of March, Dr. K Royal started her new role with Crawford & Company , and because of that, was traveling to the company's headquarters in Atlanta (GA). That same week, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki was teaching a new data protection course with our favourite guest co-host Ralph O'Brien at Maastricht University's European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity : a Masterclass on privacy management and data governance . Therefore, this week, a discussion on t...
Apr 07, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company talk with dr. Laura Drechsler , Research Fellow at the Centre for IT and IP Law ( CITIP ) at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. They discuss Laura's work on cross-border data transfers, comparing the decisions of the European courts and the guidance of the data protection authorities with the adequacy decisions that have been published by the European Commissio...
Mar 29, 2023•42 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool tackle the tough topics of Ethics in data protection and privacy. This week's episode may be a little bit more philosophical than our usual ones. No big updates on what's happening in the world of privacy, but instead of conversation about ethics, what does it mean to take an ethical approach to data processing? And how does it work on a daily basis? This includes a perspective ...
Mar 22, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool bring you a recap of a very busy week in privacy. Earlier this week, we released a special episode on the UK data protection and digital information bill . But today you get the episode we actually intended for you this week, a regular weekend privacy episode, including information on the #Thingy, cookie banners, BCRs, and more. Resources discussed: IAPP state privacy law tracking Husch B...
Mar 16, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Send us a text On 8 March 2023, the UK Government introduced the long awaited update for the UK GDPR, now called the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill , in the House of Commons. According to the press release , British business will be able to save many billions of pounds when this bill becomes law, but not everybody agrees that is true. In this extra episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool talk with Ralph O'Brien, our go-to UK expert...
Mar 13, 2023•29 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool have an opportunity to catch up with Emma Martins , the Data Protection Commissioner of Guernsey. Until 2018, Emma Martins served as the Information Commissioner for all Channel Islands, which also include Jersey and smaller islands like Sark and Alderney. With the entry into force of GDPR, both bailiwicks however also adopted their own new laws, each with their own supervisory authority....
Mar 08, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool chat with Amy Worley , the Managing Director & Associate General Counsel at BRG on topics such as the enforcement letters sent out by the California Attorney General’s office on the do not sell / share my data requirement of the CCPA (as amended by the CPRA ). We also discuss key US Supreme Court hearings in Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh and Gonzalez v. Google LLC , involving Section 230(c...
Mar 01, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool discuss some of the hottest privacy news - spanning the Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal by FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson (R) who has indicated her intention to resign to the Netherlands’ outlawing social media posts to the mounting opposition to the EU-US Data Protection Framework (the Thingy”). Paul put it very well in this IAPP article "With the EPDB's opinion on the fram...
Feb 22, 2023•41 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool meet with Emma Godfree part of the Data Protection & Information Governance apprenticeship program (recall Episode 26 of Season 3 with Barry Moult and Ralph O’Brien). She has been working as a data protection consultancy for 2.5 years, currently with iStorm. She also makes the amazing Lego clips explaining data protection basics, that you may have seen on LinkedIn. Let’s talk about wh...
Feb 16, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Send us a text In this season 4, second episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool meet with Carey Lening with Castlebridge , a Dublin-based data consultancy, as an outside DPO (privacat). She has over 20 years of experience assessing risks and enabling data security and data protection for companies like Facebook , Palantir , and numerous Fortune 500 companies. She recently gave a talk at the Rise of Privacy Tech event, titled “Is the Fediverse Ready t...
Feb 08, 2023•41 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Send us a text In the first episode of season 4 of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool welcome season 4 launching on Data Protection / Privacy Day 2023! From current events, to laws, to breaches, to SCCs - we probably covered it all! Paul even challenged ChatGPT to describe our season 1. The Serious Privacy podcast, by TrustArc, season 1 covered a variety of core topics related to privacy and data protection. Some of the key topics discussed in season 1 inc...
Jan 28, 2023•56 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Send us a text On the final day of 2022, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool , look back at the year 2022 - a year where a lot has happened. In the season three finale of Serious Privacy , they discuss some of the highlights of past episodes. In 2022, Paul and K made 45 Serious Privacy episodes, this one included, bringing our total to 139. They have had 25 guests, 4 conference reports, five episodes with Ralph O'Brien as co-host and one crossover episode with the Data ...
Dec 31, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 45
Send us a text On 13 December 2022, the European Commission published the long-awaited draft adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, among podcast listeners also known as the Thingy. In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool talk about the adequacy decision, and what they consider is missing from it. Resources: Draft Adequacy Decision IAPP Privacy Shield - DPF comparison ODNI Redress Process Executive Order 14086 OECD Policy F...
Dec 22, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 44
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool talk about health data and medical research. Paul recently attended the 10th Summit of MyData-Trust , a Belgium-based consultancy company, where he interviewed a number of people, including on the European Health Data Space . K, as a former nurse, adds her views to the conversation. Speakers: Mark Jones ( UCB ) Mathilde Faure ( My Data Trust ) Roxana Albu ( EORTC ) Filip Karan ( European ...
Dec 16, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool have a rousing good time with Glyn Moody , author of the recent book Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor . Join us for a lively conversation about copyright and mass surveillance in pursuit of copyright enforcement. As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn , Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @...
Dec 08, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal of Outschool connect with Dr. Gary Edwards , Co-founder and President of Golfdale Consulting to discuss fascinating privacy program metrics involving over 1400 respondents and more than 30 countries. The findings are pretty interesting. Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki is traveling currently and was not able to join us. As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn , Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofpriva...
Dec 02, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki (turning 40 and this is our 40th episode this season) and Dr. K Royal of Outschool discuss recent events in privacy. Join them as they touch on a recent data breach by Transunion in the US and mass public notice, passkeys vs. passwords (resource; FIDO open authentication standards), the first female president of Slovenia, Natasa Pirc Musar who is also a privacy professional (congrats!), PET - privacy enhancing techno...
Nov 25, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool change it up a little. Paul attended Privacy Space in the UK and took the opportunity to record short interviews with Richard Merrygold of iStorm , Claire Archibald with Education Data Hub ( @edudatahub ), Rowenna Fielding (@MissIGGeek) at Miss IG Geek Ltd , and Tash Whitaker , an external DPO superhero - some of our favorite names in privacy / data protection. As always, if you have comm...
Nov 16, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 39
Send us a text In this episode of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal of Outschool returns from vacation and catches up on the privacy activity with Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki . It seems like it was a quiet few weeks, but the more they talk, the more there is to catch up on. Paul and K talk about the Microsoft Digital Defense Report, posted by a colleague Victoria Beckman with Microsoft , the EU Agency for Cybersecurity Threat Landscape Report (not reviewed yet), the agreement between the data protec...
Nov 11, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 38
Send us a text While Dr. K Royal of Outschool is enjoying a well deserved vacation, Ralph O’Brien is joining Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki for a Serious Privacy conversation with Chris Docksey , the honorary Director General of the EDPS. Chris is also a member of the data protection authority in Guernsey and a visiting fellow at Maastricht University. During this episode, Ralph and Paul talk with Chris about the right to be forgotten, and the implications it has on local journalism. Chris has prev...
Nov 02, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 37
Send us a text While Dr. K Royal of Outschool is enjoying a well deserved vacation, Ralph O’Brien is joining Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki for a Serious Privacy conversation with Barb Lawler , the CEO of the Information Accountability Foundation and winner of the 2022 IAPP Vanguard Award for North America . Barb has a long career in privacy and was, among other things, the first Chief Privacy Officer at Hewlett Packard. She spend many years in the same role at Intuit. At the IAF, Barb is involved ...
Oct 26, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 36
Send us a text This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal speak with Yannick Vogel . Yannick was one of the finalists of the 6th EDPL Young Scholar Award 2022, as well as a PhD student hoping to obtain a Joint International Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology. His paper, titled “ Stretching the Limit, The Functioning of the GDPR’s Notion of Consent in the context of Data Intermediary Services ” looks ahead at one of the new European laws that are entering into force sho...
Oct 19, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 35
Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool discuss the 10-7 series of deliberately machinated and long-awaited political events surrounding the EU-US data transfer mechanism that is intended to replace the Privacy Shield, invalidated under Schrems II back in 2020 - the “thingie.” Plus, the UK-US joint statement on adequacy consideration . These various events comprise the Executive Order ( the Fact sheet along with the information...
Oct 13, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 34
Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool are headed to South America to see what is happening in privacy. With one cohost based in the United States and the other in Europe, it is no surprise that the focus of the Serious Privacy conversations is often the transatlantic relationship. Of course, data protection goes beyond the European Union and the United States, many Latin American countries have had national data protection la...
Oct 06, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 33
Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool have a rare moment to share philosophies about privacy, with a touch on some current events. Hear what they have to say about new professionals moving in to privacy, what courses to take or skills to have, and how experienced professionals transition into privacy. It’s raw. It’s real (and it includes Sam Elliott). As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn , Twit...
Sep 23, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 32
Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool catch up on a slow week in privacy. We do touch on some meaty topics that are usually overlooked, such as a CISO going into trial on personal liability for a data breach (or rather the non-disclosure of a data breach), the American Data Protection and Privacy Act’s (ADPPA’s) future, with the recent statement by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi on her support or lack thereof, and the GDPR implem...
Sep 16, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 31
Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool catch up on a week in privacy. This week is all about the C’s - COPPA , code, California, Cuba, Colombia, cars, consultations, and more. We talk about the new age appropriate design code bill that is before the CA governor for signature. It is expected to pass in spite of the opposition against it. Cuba’s new law is covered, but we only touch on Colombia because we have an upcoming guest ...
Sep 08, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool connect with perhaps a controversial player in the privacy game, Gal Ringel , Founder and CEO of Mine . (on Twitter @MineApp and @GalRingel) You might recognize the name from a slew of individual rights requests. We agree that everyone should be able to understand what personal data organisations process about them. However, it can be a challenge to find out how to file these access reque...
Sep 01, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 29