

Serious Privacy
Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth & Ralph O'Brien
The PICCASO award winning Podcast, for those who are interested in the hottest field of human rights and laws on the digital frontier. Whether you are a professional who wants to learn more about privacy and privacy laws, data protection, GDPR or cyber law or someone who just finds this fascinating, we have topics for you from data management to cybersecurity, from social justice to data ethics and AI and digital identity protection. In-depth information on serious privacy topics including interviews with privacy leadership, privacy culture, serious discussions, and more. 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. Follow us on BlueSky (@seriousprivacy.eu) or LinkedIn
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Jul 12, 2023 • 40min
Privacy Live - a week (a day...) in Privacy
Send us a textIn 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:Meta v BundeskartellamtDraft EU law on DPA cooperationThe ICCL comments on the draft EU lawThe EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (as adopted)The Irish gag order for data protection investigationsUK-US Data BridgeFTC NominationsFrance TikTok Law50 Years of FIPPs 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.

Jul 5, 2023 • 33min
A week in Privacy with fines, new laws, and Snowden!
Send us a textIn 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 Material, 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 anniversary of the Snowden leaks. 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.

Jun 29, 2023 • 37min
Working hard for the money: Privacy in the DIFC (with Lori Baker)
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.

Jun 21, 2023 • 36min
AI: Not so Intelligent and not so Artificial
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.

Jun 15, 2023 • 42min
Nomadic Privacy - A World full of topics with R. Jason Cronk
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.

Jun 7, 2023 • 40min
Vendor Management - it's a real thing
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.

Jun 1, 2023 • 29min
Big Developments this week - with Ralph O'Brien
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.

May 25, 2023 • 37min
A non-earth shattering week in privacy
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.

May 18, 2023 • 31min
viva México: A chat with INAI (Dr. Jonathan Mendoza)
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.

May 10, 2023 • 35min
Around the world in a week in privacy
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.


