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Send us a textWhile 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 Emirates, how the legislation compares to other laws we know such as the GDPR, and international data flows to and from the DIFC.Resources:The website of the DIFC and the overview of adequacy decisionsThe books discussed:What We May Become by Teresa MessineoThe Fire by Night by Teresa MessineoThe Second Sleep by Robert Harris  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Send us a textIn 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 pornography fakes. We also discuss some of the #ethics of AI along with some of the #AIscarymoments.The story of Clever Hans on Wikipedia, which was discussed in the book Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Send us a textIn 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 Design, his non-profit the Institute of Operational Privacy Design, and much more. In fact, no surprise, our friend Ralph O’Brien’s name came up in conversation as well as Deirdre Mulligan, new Deputy Chief Technology Officer for policy for the United States and privacy engineering a la Michelle Dennedy. We also touched on the Privacy Law Scholars conference along with one of our favorite young law scholars, Wayne Unger. In addition, Jason covers many of his activities, such as speaking at CERN. As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy  and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Send us a textIn 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 podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Send us a textIn 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 penalty.As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy @IGRObrien and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Send us a textIt'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 on DPA transparency...  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Send us a textIn 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 Assembly twice. Jonathan specializes in disruptive technologies and digital ethics and has worked on industry standards, governance guidance, and collaborations with the private and public sectors regarding privacy and data management. As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Send us a textIn 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 podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Send us a textIn 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 with the first blog post. Also, the unexpected question may force us to change our security questions! Phishing anyone? If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Send us a textIn 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 Gdánsk University.As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.