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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

On the Road Again

Send us a text This week Paul and K are both travelling, so the recording was slightly more complex then usual. While K was in Arizone for the State Bar of Arizona 2024 Convention , Paul was in London for the inaugural edition of Legal Tech Talk . We bring you the highlights of both events, as well as some headlines of what has been happening in the world of privacy and data protection this week. Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up to date on law...

Jun 16, 202435 minSeason 5Ep. 19

A week in Privacy - the scary side

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a couple of weeks in privacy - on the scary side. Topics include updates on the global CBPRs and PRPs, NOYB launched a complaint against open AI with the austrian data protection authority and 11 complaints against META , Italy reinstates chatGPT , the EDPB chatGPT task force report , a lawsuit against General Motors for IOT , the U. S. Department of Commerce announced some new initiatives under th...

Jun 07, 202435 minSeason 5Ep. 18

Episode 200: Join the Geeky Whistle Stop Tour (with Ralph and Marie)

Send us a text In this 200th episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal (our views are our own and do not reflect the views of our employers) are joined by honorary co-host Ralph O'Brien , as well as Marie Penot to celebrate 4,5 years of podcasting. The four look back on what surprised and disappointed them these past year, but also talk about some current developments, including a Cypriot investigation into P*rnhub's data protection practices, the UK Data Protection ...

Jun 01, 202444 minSeason 5Ep. 17

The Healthiest Data Show on Earth (with Irith Kist)

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal (our views are our own and do not reflect the views of our employers) connect with Irith Kist , the Data Protection Officer at the Netherlands Cancer Institute , also a member of the Data Protection Advisory Commission of the City of Amsterdam. However, she is also a health data researcher herself, and on the 5th of June, she will defend her dissertation at Leiden University called A Fair Balance. This i...

May 24, 202444 minSeason 5Ep. 16

A holy week in privacy

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss a holy week in privacy where the V’s took front page - the Vatican issued a privacy decree and Vermont is trying to pass a strong privacy law and a coalition of state Attorneys General signed a letter imploring Congress not to preempt their privacy laws . In addition, CO AI bill is in front of the governor , Maryland passed a kids code , Google and Apple is hosting their annual developers confere...

May 17, 202439 minSeason 5Ep. 15

One Hot Week in Privacy

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss a hot week in privacy! Topics include the amendment of Colorado’s privacy act to include protecting children , CT’s AI bill did not pass , but the TikTok bill was rolled not a foreign aid bill . ByteDance is ordered to divest themselves of TikTok by January 19, 2025 with the allowance for a 90 days extension. But Bytedance has already filed a suit in the DC Court of Appeals and no matter what the...

May 10, 202436 minSeason 5Ep. 14

The Fun and da Mental part of Privacy - Data Inventories

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of discuss a fundamental part of a successful privacy / data protection program - data inventories or mapping - records of processing activities. We also switched it up on you a little... Paul asks his very first unexpected question. 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, ...

May 03, 202440 minSeason 5Ep. 13

A week in Privacy - EDPB/Meta plus TikTok, Nebraska, and more

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company had a few major developments to discuss, such as the ban or forced sale of TikTok ( which was signed as we were talking ), the EDPB opinion on Meta’s consent or pay model , a final rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights on privacy of reproductive rights , Nebraska’s privacy law , and more. Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage you...

Apr 25, 202434 minSeason 5Ep. 12

Quite the week in privacy - analysis of APRA

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company connect after the IAPP #GPS24 to discuss the US privacy bill being proposed - the American Privacy Rights Act. Join us as we discuss pros and cons along with a little news on # TikTok ban (or not) . Good resources on #APRA found at IAPP cheatsheet and here with a section-by-section breakdown . Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up ...

Apr 18, 202438 minSeason 5Ep. 11

Starting with Step 1 with Val Ilchenko

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal catches up with Val Ilchenko , General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer of TrustArc. K and Val are both at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Dc and were able to catch up for a great conversation on how to design privacy software for both experienced privacy professionals and those who just need to take the first step. We also discussed his career trajectory, where AI should live, and myriad other topics so common to all of us. In addi...

Apr 04, 202433 minSeason 5Ep. 10

What in the World? A focused episode on location data

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company dive deep into the topic of location data, which is considered sensitive personal data and is often not disclosed in many apps. We talk about geopositioning satellites , a journalist investigation into the Polar's fitness app , transparency reports on responses to government requests, such as this one by TMobile , and creative uses such as tracking saguaro cacti in Arizona ...

Mar 28, 202441 minSeason 4Ep. 9

Letters of the Week: AI and TCF

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company connect on some seriously sexy privacy topics - namely TCF with the recent decision against IAB and the European AI Act , including the exciting new Nymity AI Beta testing . 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...

Mar 22, 202442 minSeason 5Ep. 8

YeGads, the Ads with Alan Chapell

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company host Alan Chapell of Chapell and Associates . Alan serves as outside counsel and chief privacy officer to digital media companies, and since 2003, has advised well over two hundred different companies. He has his own consultancy, his own newsletter, the Chapell Report, and is also making some funky music - on . Spotify . Join us as we dive into cookies, ads, google analytics, an...

Mar 14, 202437 minSeason 5Ep. 7

Intense Privacy - IAPP UK Intensive

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company is joined by our featured guest-host Ralph O’Brien on location at the IAPP UK Intensive in London . Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki is traveling. Ralph and K were able to catch up with some amazing privacy all-stars starting with Robert Bateman , quickly followed by Marie Penot , Joe Jones , John Bowman of IBM now, Liz Smith of DPOrganizer , and Kate Colleary . Join us for a lively discussion with some pretty amaz...

Mar 07, 202435 minSeason 5Ep. 6

A week of lemons and limes (and lots of updates)

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company catch up on a week of privacy news, ranging from the legislative debate on Coppa 2.0 , the EDPB Opinion limiting the impact of the One Stop Shop , the Lockbit take down by the FBI and European police authorities, the preparations for the Olympic Games in Paris and the Right to be Forgotten . Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up to...

Feb 28, 202442 minSeason 5Ep. 5

RAW privacy and GrumpyGDPR with Rie Aleksandra Walle

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company connect with Rie Aleksandra Walle . The original grumpyGDPR podcaster, to discuss current events and the DPO Hub . Join us for a rousing great conversation about the EU, Irish DPC, the most challenging part of compliance for companies, and so much more… Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up to date on laws across the globe. With Tr...

Feb 22, 202438 minSeason 5Ep. 4

Keeping a [low] Profile: A look at Profiling

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company examine profiling in all its contexts and glory. Join us for a lively conversation. 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 subject rights, and centralize your privacy tasks—all while reducing com...

Feb 15, 202434 minSeason 5Ep. 3

The Privacy Leaders' Compass with Dr. Valerie Lyons and Todd Fitzgerald

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with authors Dr. Valerie Lyons and Todd Fitzgerald . At the end of last year, a new manual for chief privacy officers and data protection officers, and anyone with a similar job title or interest, was released: the Privacy Leader Compass. Following a similar manual for CISOs, this book provides all that privacy leaders need to know to develop and maintain their privacy or data protection program....

Feb 08, 202445 minSeason 5Ep. 2

Happy Data Privacy / Protection Day with the Kickoff of Season 5!

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company kick off Season 5 with a Bang! As usual, we launch the new season on Data Privacy - Data Protection Day and what a year we’ve had so far! 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 subject rights, an...

Jan 28, 202440 minSeason 5Ep. 1

Wrapping up Season 4 - all the love

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal and Ralph O’Brien bring you the final episode - chock full of privacy goodness: episode 183 of Serious Privacy. And what a year it has been. With over 44,000 downloads just this season, this was our most successful year to date. We missed top 10% on #Buzzsprout by about 5 downloads a week - so share and care. But of course, the year was not remarkable because of the number of downloads, but because of al...

Dec 26, 202358 minSeason 4Ep. 46

The Big U.S. State Law Overview (with Joanne Furtsch)

Send us a text You have been promised this episode for months, but finally at the end of the year, on this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal give you an overview of the U.S. State Law developments in 2023. What are the most important parts to understand State consumer privacy laws and how do you comply with them? Luckily, Paul and K don’t have to do this all by themselves, but they can rely upon the expertise of Joanne Furtsch , VP Privacy Knowledge at TrustAr...

Dec 17, 202345 minSeason 4Ep. 45

A week in Privacy

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal bring you a week in privacy, covering women in privacy like Liz Denham , Annelies Moens , Ludmila Morozova-Boss and others, OpenAI , Meta and noyb , holiday scams , new legislation, and even book reviews, Ready Player 1 and Your Face Belongs to U s from Kashmir Hill . Tune in for some fun. Powered by TrustArc Seamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up to date on laws across the glo...

Dec 07, 202333 minSeason 4Ep. 44

Privacy Biz and Liz (Liz Denham)

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Liz Denham , who was appointed to the Jersey Data Protection Authority and is also the new Chief Strategist at the Information Accountability Foundation . Liz has quite the extensive career in privacy leadership and discusses developments in the field with Paul. This one also features some information on some friends of K in a band who are touring Europe right now, Stone Senate . Also, remem...

Dec 01, 202334 minSeason 4Ep. 43

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