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, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 36
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, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 35
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, 2023•26 min•Season 4Ep. 34
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, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 33
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, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 32
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, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 31
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, 2023•34 min•Season 4Ep. 30
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, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 29
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, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 28
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, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 27
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, 2023•49 min•Season 4Ep. 26
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, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 25
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, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 24
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, 2023•37 min•Season 4Ep. 23
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, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 22
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, 2023•41 min•Season 4Ep. 21
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, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 20
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, 2023•29 min•Season 4Ep. 19
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, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 18
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, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 17
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, 2023•35 min•Season 4Ep. 16
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, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 15
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, 2023•41 min•Season 4Ep. 14
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
