In this episode, I'm joined by Amalia Barthel , founder of Designing Privacy , a consultancy that helps businesses integrate privacy into business operations; and Eric Lybeck , a seasoned independent privacy engineering consultant with over two decades of experience in cybersecurity and privacy. Eric recently served as Director of Privacy Engineering at Privacy Code. Today, we discuss: the importance of more training for privacy engineers on AI system enablement; why it's not enough for privacy ...
Jul 23, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Today, I chat with Gianclaudio Malgieri , an expert in privacy, data protection, AI regulation, EU law, and human rights. Gianclaudio is an Associate Professor of Law at Leiden University, the Co-director of the Brussels Privacy Hub , Associate Editor of the Computer Law & Security Review , and co-author of the paper "The Unfair Side of Privacy Enhancing Technologies: Addressing the Trade-offs Between PETs and Fairness" . In our conversation, we explore this paper and why privacy-enhancing t...
Jun 25, 2024•48 min•Season 3Ep. 14
In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Avi Bar-Zeev, a true tech pioneer and the Founder and President of The XR Guild. With over three decades of experience, Avi has an impressive resume, including launching Disney's Aladdin VR ride, developing Second Life's 3D worlds, co-founding Keyhole (which became Google Earth), co-inventing Microsoft's HoloLens, and contributing to the Amazon Echo Frames. The XR Guild is a nonprofit organization that promotes ethics in extended reality (XR) t...
Jun 18, 2024•52 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Today, I'm joined by Matt Gershoff , Co-founder and CEO of Conductrics , a software company specializing in A/B testing, multi-armed bandit techniques, and customer research and survey software. With a strong background in resource economics and artificial intelligence, Matt brings a unique perspective to the conversation, emphasizing simplicity and intentionality in decision-making and data collection. In this episode, Matt dives into Conductrics' background, the role of A/B testing and experim...
Jun 04, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 12
In this episode, Marie Potel-Saville joins me to shed light on the widespread issue of dark patterns in design. With her background in law, Marie founded the 'FairPatterns' project with her award-winning privacy and innovation studio, Amurabi, to detect and fix large-scale dark patterns. Throughout our conversation, we discuss the different types of dark patterns, why it is crucial for businesses to prevent them from being coded into their websites and apps, and how designers can ensure that the...
Apr 30, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 11
In this episode, I sat down with Aaron Weller , the Leader of HP's Privacy Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE), focused on providing technical solutions for privacy engineering across HP's global operations. Throughout our conversation, we discuss: what motivated HP's leadership to stand up a CoE for Privacy Engineering; Aaron's approach to staffing the CoE; how a CoE's can shift privacy left in a large, matrixed organization like HP's; and, how to leverage the CoE to proactively manage priva...
Apr 09, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Today, I’m joined by Amaka Ibeji, Privacy Engineer at Cruise where she designs and implements robust privacy programs and controls. In this episode, we discuss Amaka's passion for creating a culture of privacy and compliance within organizations and engineering teams. Amaka also hosts the PALS Parlor Podcast, where she speaks to business leaders and peers about privacy, AI governance, leadership, and security and explains technical concepts in a digestible way. The podcast aims to enable busines...
Apr 02, 2024•43 min•Season 3Ep. 9
In this week's episode, I am joined by Heidi Saas, a privacy lawyer with a reputation for advocating for products and services built with privacy by design and against the abuse of personal data. In our conversation, she dives into recent FTC enforcement actions, analyzing five FTC actions and some enforcement sweeps by Colorado & Connecticut. Heidi shares her insights on the effect of the FTC enforcement actions and what privacy engineers need to know, emphasizing the need for data manageme...
Mar 26, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 8
This week's episode, I chat with Chris Zeunstrom, the Founder and CEO of Ruca and Yorba. Ruca is a global design cooperative and founder support network, while Yorba is a reverse CRM that aims to reduce your digital footprint and keep your personal information safe. Through his businesses, Chris focuses on solving common problems and creating innovative products. In our conversation, we talk about building a privacy-first company, the digital minimalist movement, and the future of decentralized ...
Mar 19, 2024•43 min•Season 3Ep. 7
In this week's episode, I sat down with Jake Ottenwaelder , Principal Privacy Engineer at Integrative Privacy LLC . Throughout our conversation, we discuss Jake’s holistic approach to privacy implementation that considers business, engineering, and personal objectives, as well as the role of anonymization, consent management, and DSAR processes for greater privacy. Jake believes privacy implementation must account for the interconnectedness of privacy technologies and human interactions. He high...
Mar 05, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 6
In this week's episode, I am joined by Steve Tout , Practice Lead at Integrated Solutions Group (ISG) and Host of The Nonconformist Innovation Podcast to discuss the intersection of privacy and identity. Steve has 18+ years of experience in global Identity & Access Management (IAM) and is currently completing his MBA from Santa Clara University. Throughout our conversation, Steve shares his journey as a reformed technologist and advocate for 'Nonconformist Innovation' & 'Tipping Point Le...
Feb 27, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 5
This week, I chat with Jake Ward , the Co-Founder and CEO of Data Protocol , to discuss how the Data Protocol platform supports developers' accountability for privacy by giving developers the relevant information in the way that they want it. Throughout the episode, we cover the Privacy Engineering course offerings and certification program; how to improve communication with developers; and trends that Jake sees across his customers after 2 years of offering these courses to engineers. In our co...
Feb 13, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 4
My guest this week is Jay Averitt , Senior Privacy Product Manager and Privacy Engineer at Microsoft, where he transitioned his career from Technology Attorney to Privacy Counsel, and most recently to Privacy Engineer. In this episode, we hear from Jay about: his professional path from a degree in Management Information Systems to Privacy Engineer; how Twitter and Microsoft navigated a privacy setup, and how to determine privacy program maturity; multiple of his Privacy Engineering community pro...
Jan 30, 2024•52 min•Season 3Ep. 3
In Honor of Data Privacy Week 2024, we're publishing a special episode. Instead of interviewing a guest, Debra shares her 'Top 20 Privacy Engineering Resources' and why. Check out her favorite free privacy engineering courses, books, podcasts, creative learning platforms, privacy threat modeling frameworks, conferences, government resources, and more. DEBRA's TOP 20 PRIVACY ENGINEERING RESOURCES (in no particular order) Privado's Free Course: 'Technical Privacy Masterclass' OpenMined's Free Cour...
Jan 23, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 2
My guest this week is Patricia Thaine , Co-founder and CEO of Private AI, where she leads a team of experts in developing cutting-edge solutions using AI to identify, reduce, and remove Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in 52 languages across text, audio, images, and documents. In this episode, we hear from Patricia about: her transition from starting a Ph.D. to co-founding an AI company; how Private AI set out to solve fundamental privacy problems to provide control and understanding of...
Jan 02, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 1
My guest this week is Kevin Killens, CEO of AHvos, a technology service that provides AI solutions for data-heavy businesses using a proprietary technology called Contextually Responsive Intelligence (CRI), which can act upon a business's private data and produce results without storing that data. In this episode, we delve into this technology and learn more from Kevin about: his transition from serving in the Navy to founding an AI-focused company; AHvos’ architectural approach in support of da...
Dec 26, 2023•43 min•Season 2Ep. 39
My guest this week is Nabanita De, Software Engineer, Serial Entrepreneur, and Founder & CEO at Privacy License where she's on a mission to transform the AI landscape. In this episode, we discuss Nabanita's transition from Engineering Manager at Remitly to startup founder; what she's learned from her experience at Antler's accelerator program, her first product to market: PrivacyGPT and her work to educate Privacy Champions. Topics Covered: Nabanita’s origin story, from conducting AI researc...
Dec 19, 2023•41 min•Season 2Ep. 38
My guests this week are Yusra Ahmad, CEO of Acuity Data , and Luke Beckley, Data Protection Officer and Privacy Governance Manager at Correla , who work with The RED (Real Estate Data) Foundation , a sector-wide alliance that enables the real estate sector to benefit from an increased use of data, while voiding some of the risks that this presents, and better serving society. We discuss the current drivers for change within the real estate industry and the complexities of the real estate industr...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 37
This week, I welcome Jared Coseglia , co-founder and CEO at TRU Staffing Partners , a contract staffing & executive placement search firm that represents talent across 3 core industry verticals: data privacy, eDiscovery, & cybersecurity. We discuss the current and future state of the contracting market for privacy engineering rols and the market drivers that affect hiring. You’ll learn about the hiring trends and the allure of 'part-time impact,' 'part-time perpetual,' and 'secondee' con...
Nov 21, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 36
This week’s guests are Mathew Mytka and Alja Isakovoić , Co-Founders of Tethix , a company that builds products that embed ethics into the fabric of your organization. We discuss Matt and Alja’s core mission to bring ethical tech to the world, and Tethix’s services that work with your Agile development processes. You’ll learn about Tethix’s solution to address 'The Intent to Action Gap,' and what Elemental Ethics can provide organizations beyond other ethics frameworks. We discuss ways to become...
Nov 14, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 35
This week’s guest is Isabel Barberá , Co-founder, AI Advisor, and Privacy Engineer at Rhite , a consulting firm specializing in responsible and trustworthy AI and privacy engineering, and creator of The Privacy Library Of Threats 4 Artificial Intelligence Framework and card game. In our conversation, we discuss: Isabel’s work with privacy-by-design, privacy engineering, privacy threat modeling, and building trustworthy AI; and info about Rhite’s forthcoming Self-Assessment Open-Source framework ...
Nov 07, 2023•50 min•Season 2Ep. 34
This week, I sat down with Vaibhav Antil ('Vee'), Co-founder & CEO at Privado , a privacy tech platform that's leverages privacy code scanning & data mapping to bridge the privacy engineering gap. Vee shares his personal journey into privacy, where he started out in Product Management and saw need for privacy automation in DevOps. We discuss obstacles created by the rapid pace of engineering teams and a lack of a shared vocabulary with Legal / GRC. You'll learn how code scanning enables ...
Oct 31, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 33
This week’s guest is Rebecca Balebako , Founder and Principal Consultant at Balebako Privacy Engineer , where she enables data-driven organizations to build the privacy features that their customers love. In our conversation, we discuss all things privacy red teaming, including: how to disambiguate adversarial privacy tests from other software development tests; the importance of privacy-by-infrastructure; why privacy maturity influences the benefits received from investing in privacy red teamin...
Oct 24, 2023•49 min•Season 2Ep. 32
This week’s guest is Steve Hickman , the founder of Epistimis , a privacy-first process design tooling startup that evaluate rules and enables the fixing of privacy issues before they ever take effect. In our conversation, we discuss: why the biggest impediment to protecting and respecting privacy within organizations is the lack of a common language; why we need a common Privacy Ontology in addition to a Privacy Taxonomy; Epistimis' ontological approach and how it leverages semantic modeling fo...
Oct 10, 2023•52 min•Season 2Ep. 31
This week's guest is Shashank Tiwari , a seasoned engineer and product leader who started with algorithmic systems of Wall Street before becoming Co-founder & CEO of Uno.ai , a pathbreaking autonomous security company. He started with algorithmic systems on Wall Street and then transitioned to building Silicon Valley startups, including previous stints at Nutanix, Elementum, Medallia, & StackRox. In this conversation, we discuss ML/AI, large language models (LLMs), temporal knowledge gra...
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 30
This week I welcome Dr. Andrew Clark , Co-founder & CTO of Monitaur, a trusted domain expert on the topic of machine learning, auditing and assurance; and Sid Mangalik , Research Scientist at Monitaur and PhD student at Stony Brook University. I discovered Andrew and Sid's new podcast show, The AI Fundamentalists Podcast . I very much enjoyed their lively episode on Synthetic Data & AI, and am delighted to introduce them to my audience of privacy engineers. In our conversation, we explor...
Sep 26, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 29
This week, I welcome Jutta Williams , Head of Privacy & Assurance at Reddit, Co-founder of Humane Intelligence and BiasBounty.ai, Privacy & Responsible AI Evangelist, and Startup Board Advisor. With a long history of accomplishments in privacy engineering, Jutta has a unique perspective on the growing field. In our conversation, we discuss her transition from security engineering to privacy engineering; how privacy cultures differ across social media companies where she's worked: Google,...
Sep 19, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Today, I welcome Victor Morel, PhD and Simone Fischer-Hübner, PhD to discuss their recent paper, "Automating Privacy Decisions – where to draw the line?" and their proposed classification scheme. We dive into the complexity of automating privacy decisions and emphasize the importance of maintaining both compliance and usability (e.g., via user control and informed consent). Simone is a Professor of Computer Science at Karlstad University with over 30 years of privacy & security research expe...
Sep 12, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 27
This week, I welcome philosopher, author, & AI ethics expert, Reid Blackman, Ph.D. , to discuss Ethical AI. Reid authored the book, "Ethical Machines," and is the CEO & Founder of Virtue Consultants , a digital ethical risk consultancy. His extensive background in philosophy & ethics, coupled with his engagement with orgs like AWS, U.S. Bank, the FBI, & NASA, offers a unique perspective on the challenges & misconceptions surrounding AI ethics. In our conversation, we discuss ...
Sep 05, 2023•52 min•Season 2Ep. 26
This week, we're chatting with Engin Bozdag , Senior Staff Privacy Architect at Uber , and Stefano Bennati , Privacy Engineer at HERE Technologies . Today, we explore their recent IWPE'23 talk, "Can Location Data Truly be Anonymized: a risk-based approach to location data anonymization" and discuss the technical & business challenges to obtain anonymization. We also discuss the role of Privacy Engineers, how to choose a career path, and the importance of embedding privacy into product develo...
Aug 29, 2023•50 min•Season 2Ep. 25
