This week’s guest is Elias Grünewald , Privacy Engineering Research Associate at Technical University, Berlin , where he focuses on cloud-native privacy engineering, transparency, accountability, distributed systems, & privacy regulation. In this conversation, we discuss the challenge of designing privacy into modern cloud architectures; how shifting left into DevPrivOps can embed privacy within agile development methods; how to blend privacy engineering & cloud engineering; the Hawk Dev...
Aug 22, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 24
This week, my guest is George Ratcliffe , Head of the Privacy GRC & Cryptography Executive Search Practice at recruitment firm, Stott & May . In this conversation, we discuss the current market climate & hiring trends for technical privacy roles; the need for higher technical capabilities across the industry; pay ranges within different technical privacy roles; and George’s tips and tools for applicants interested in, entering, and/or transitioning into the privacy industry. Topics C...
Aug 15, 2023•46 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Get ready for an eye-opening conversation with Sanjay Saini , the founder and CEO of Privaini , a groundbreaking privacy tech company. Sanjay's journey is not only impressive due to his role in creating high-performance teams that have built entirely new product categories, but also for the invaluable lessons he learned from his grandfather about the pillars of successful companies - trust and human connections. In our discussion, Sanjay shares how Privaini is raising the privacy bar by construc...
Aug 01, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 22
This week’s guest is Tom Kemp : author; entrepreneur; former Co-Founder & CEO of Centrify (now called Delinia), a leading cybersecurity cloud provider; and a Silicon Valley-based Seed Investor and Policy Advisor. Tom led campaign marketing efforts in 2020 to pass California Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act, (CPRA), and is currently co-authoring the California Delete Act bill. In this conversation, we discuss chapters within Tom’s new book, Containing Big Tech: How to Protect...
Jul 11, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 21
This week’s guest is Jeff Jockisch , Partner at Avantis Privacy and co-host of the weekly LinkedIn Live event, Your Bytes = Your Rights , a town hall-style discussion around ownership, digital rights, and privacy. Jeff is currently a data privacy researcher at PrivacyPlan , where he focuses specifically on privacy data sets. In this conversation, we delve into current risks to location privacy; how precise location data really is; how humans can have more control over their data; and what organi...
Jul 05, 2023•43 min•Season 2Ep. 20
This week's guest is Kim Wuyts , Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the DistriNet Research Group at the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven . Kim is one of the leading minds behind the development and extension of LINDDUN, a privacy threat modeling framework that mitigates privacy threats in software systems. In this conversation, we discuss threat modeling based on the Threat Modeling Manifesto Kim co-authored; the benefits to using the LINDDUN privacy threat model framework; and how to ...
Jun 27, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 19
I am delighted to welcome my next guest, Brad Dominy . Brad is a MacOS and iOS developer and Founder & Inventor of Neucards , a privacy-preserving app that enables secure shareable and updatable digital contacts. In this conversation, we delve into why personally managing our digital contacts has been so difficult and Brad's novel approach to securely manage our contacts, architected with privacy by design and default. Contacts have always been the “junk drawer” of digital data, where people...
May 16, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 18
In this week’s episode, I speak with Damien Desfontaines , also known by the pseudonym “Ted”, who is the Staff Scientist at Tumult Labs , a startup leading the way on differential privacy. In Damien’s career, he has led an Anonymization Consulting Team at Google and specializes in making it easy to safely anonymize data. Damien earned his PhD and wrote his thesis at ETH Zurich , as well as his Master's Degree in Mathematical Logic and Theoretical Computer Science. Tumult Labs ’ platform makes di...
May 09, 2023•46 min•Season 2Ep. 17
I'm delighted to welcome guest, Melanie Ensign , Founder and CEO of Discernible , where she helps organizations adopt effective communication strategies to improve risk-related outcomes. She's managed security & privacy communications for some of the world's most notable brands, including Facebook, Uber & AT&T. Melanie counsels executives and technical teams to cut through internal politics, dysfunctional inertia & meaningless metrics. For the past 10 years, she's also led the pr...
May 02, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 16
This week's guest is Umar Iqbal, PhD , a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, working in the Security and Privacy Research Lab . Umar focuses his research on two themes: 1) bringing transparency into data collection and usage practices, and 2) enabling individuals to have control over their own data by identifying & restricting privacy-invasive data collection & usage practices of online services His long-...
Apr 18, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 15
This week, we welcome Suchakra Sharma , Chief Scientist at Privado.ai , where he builds code analysis tools for data privacy & security. Previously, he earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal, where he worked on eBPF Technology and hardware-assisted tracing techniques for OS Analysis. In this conversation, we delve into Suchakra’s background in shifting left for security and how he applies traditional, tested static analysis techniques — such as 'taint tracking' an...
Apr 11, 2023•35 min•Season 2Ep. 14
I am delighted to welcome this week’s guest, Kurt Rohloff. Kurt is the CTO and Co-Founder of Duality Technologies , a privacy tech company that enables organizations to leverage data across their ecosystem and generate joint insights for better business while preserving privacy. Kurt was also Co-Founder of the OpenFHE Homomorphic Encryption Software Library that enables practical and usable privacy and collaborative data analytics. He's successfully led teams that are developing, transitioning, ...
Apr 04, 2023•49 min•Season 2Ep. 13
This week, I'm joined by Katharine Jarmul , Principal Data Scientist at Thoughtworks & author of the the forthcoming book, "Practical Data Privacy: Enhancing Privacy and Security in Data." Katharine began asking questions similar to those of today's ethical machine learning community as a university student working on her undergrad thesis during the war in Iraq. She focused that research on natural language processing and investigated the statistical differences between embedded & non-em...
Mar 28, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 12
This week, we gain insights into the profession of privacy engineering with guest Menotti Minutillo , a Sr. Privacy Engineering Manager with 15+ years of experience leading critical programs and product delivery at companies like Uber, Thrive Global & Twitter. He started his career in 2007 on Wall Street as a DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer; and now, Menotti is a sought-after technical privacy expert and Privacy Tech Advisor. In this conversation, we discuss privacy engineering approach...
Mar 21, 2023•53 min•Season 2Ep. 11
This week, we welcome Lipika Ramaswamy , Senior Applied Scientist at Gretel AI , a privacy tech company that makes it simple to generate anonymized and safe synthetic data via APIs. Previously, Lipika worked as a Data Scientist at LeapYear Technologies, and was the Machine Learning Researcher at Harvard University's Privacy Tools Project . Lipika’s interest in both machine learning and privacy comes from her love of math and things that can be defined with equations. Her interest was piqued in g...
Mar 14, 2023•46 min•Season 2Ep. 10
In this episode, I'm delighted to welcome Apu Kapadia , Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University. His research is focused on the privacy implications of ubiquitous cameras and online photo sharing. More recently, he has examined the cybersecurity and privacy challenges posed by AI-based smart voice assistants that can listen and converse with us. Prof. Kapadia has been excited by anonymized networks since childhood. He has memor...
Mar 07, 2023•47 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Victor Platt is a Senior AI Security and Privacy Strategist who previously served as Head of Security and Privacy for privacy tech company, Integrate.ai. Victor was formerly a founding member of the Risk AI Team with Omnia AI, Deloitt’s artificial intelligence practice in Canada. He joins today to discuss privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) that are shaping industries around the world, with a focus on federated learning. --------- Thank you to our sponsor, Privado , the developer-friendly priv...
Feb 28, 2023•41 min•Season 2Ep. 8
In this conversation with Markus Lampinen , Co-founder and CEO at Prifina , a personal data platform, we discuss meaty topics like: Prifina’s approach to building privacy-respected apps for consumer wearable sensors; LLMs (Large Language Models) like Chat GPT; and why we should consider training our own personal AIs. Markus shares his entrepreneurial journey in the privacy world and how he is “the biggest data nerd you’ll find.” It started with tracking his own data, like his eating habits, acti...
Feb 21, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Today, I welcome Gary LaFever, co-CEO & GC at Anonos; WEF Global Innovator; and a solutions-oriented futurist with a computer science and legal background. Gary has over 35 years of technical, legal and policy experience that enables him to approach issues from multiple perspectives. I last saw Gary when we shared the stage at a RegTech conference in London six years ago, and it was a pleasure to speak with him again to discuss how the Schrems II decision coupled with the increasing prevalen...
Feb 14, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 6
R. Jason Cronk is the Founder of the Institute of Operational Privacy Design (IOPD) and CEO of Enterprivacy Consulting Group , as well as the author of Strategic Privacy by Design . I recently caught up with Jason at the annual Privacy Law Salon event and had a conversation about the socio-technical challenges of privacy, different privacy-by-design frameworks that he’s worked on, and his thoughts on some hot topics in the web privacy space. --------- Thank you to our sponsor, Privado , the deve...
Feb 07, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Nishant Bhajaria is the Director of Privacy Engineering, Architecture, & Analytics at Uber and Author of " Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers .” He’s also an Advisor to Data Protocol , Privado & Piiano . In our conversation, we discuss privacy engineering trends, educational materials that Nishant has developed, and his advice to privacy technologists, engineers, and hiring managers. --------- Thank you to our sponsor, Privado , the developer-friendly privacy platform --------- Nishan...
Jan 31, 2023•43 min•Season 2Ep. 4
To kick off Data Privacy Week 2023, I’m joined by Mark Lizar, CEO of the Digital Transparency Lab and Founder of 0PN: Open Privacy Network . Mark is also the Vice Chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity for Next-Generation Connectivity Systems' Human Control & Flow Sub-Committee and Editor & Lead Author of the ANCR Notice Record Specification and Framework at the Kantara Initiative. In our conversation, we unpack the current standards and specifications for transparency and data control in the d...
Jan 24, 2023•51 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Michelle Dennedy is Co-Founder & CEO of PrivacyCode, Inc ., Partner at Privatus Consulting , and the Co-Author of The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto . In our lively conversation, we discuss the digital cost of information, the privacy problems that her company solves for, and how the Privatus Wicked Privacy™ framework differs from other approaches. --------- Thank you to our sponsor, Privado , the developer-friendly privacy platform --------- As Michelle puts it, we’re living in an ‘innovation...
Jan 10, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Of the almost 300 million cars that are in circulation in the U.S., the vast majority collect consumer’s personal information. Every time you connect your phone via USB or Bluetooth, your car is designed to download data and store it locally. The automotive industry is grossly behind when it comes to data privacy and safety, but that’s where Privacy4Cars comes in. Privacy4Cars is the first (and only) privacy tech company focused on identifying the challenges posed by vehicle data. They create so...
Jan 03, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 1
This week, I continue my conversation with Jim Nasr , CEO of Acoer about privacy and using distributed ledger technology (DLT). We discuss his work leading The HBAR Foundation's Privacy Market Development Fund and the trends he sees across grant applicants. We also chat about the collapse of FTX and the ripple effect it’s had on the crypto space. --------- Thank you to our sponsor, Privado , the developer-friendly privacy platform --------- Jim tells us about the types of innovations The HBAR Fo...
Dec 20, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Today, I am joined by Jim Nasr , CEO of Acoer. I had the pleasure of collaborating with Jim on several projects during my 6-month stint as Privacy Strategist for Hedera . Jim joins me today to discuss the use of distributed ledger tech (DLT) to provide computational trust for real-time applications. Jim and I speak about the development of secure, privacy-preserving, and traceable technologies, which can gain adoption via open protocols and usable interfaces. --------- Thank you to our sponsor, ...
Dec 13, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode, I’m joined by Lorrie Cranor , FORE Systems Professor, Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU); Director, CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory; and Co-Director, of CMU's MSIT-Privacy Engineering Masters Program . We discuss the different tracks within the Privacy Engineering Program at CMU, privacy engineering hiring trends, the need for industry education, and Lorrie’s research outside of the classroom. ---------- Thank yo...
Dec 06, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This week, I’m joined by Lourdes Turrecha , Founder & Chief Privacy Tech Strategist at The Rise of Privacy Tech (TROPT) . TROPT's mission is to fuel privacy innovation by bringing together privacy tech founders, investors, buyers, & expert-advisors to bridge the existing tech-capital-expertise gaps in the field. As a member of TROPT's Advisory Board, I’ve seen 1st-hand TROPT's innovative resources and events that they offer the industry. ---------- Thank you to our sponsor, Privado , the...
Nov 29, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 6
I’m joined by Stephen Wilson , accomplished data protection innovator, researcher, analyst and advisor who leads Digital Safety and Privacy efforts at Constellation Research and is Managing Director of Lockstep Technologies . In our conversation, we discuss the importance of information value chains, the emergence of data sharing platforms, discuss why data should be like clean drinking water, and explore the problems with "data ownership." -------- Thank you to our sponsor, Privado , the develo...
Nov 22, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode, I interview Mert Can Boyar , Director of Privacy Innovation Lab at Bilgi University and Founder of privacy tech company, Verilogy. Mert walks us through his creative approach to educating on core privacy engineering concepts, particularly through the lens of storytelling, visual art & music. He also shares his vision & mission behind his passion project, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Privacy Engineering." --------- Thank you to our sponsor, Privado , the developer-friendly ...
Nov 15, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 4
