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Serious Privacy

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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 and data protection or someone who just finds this fascinating, we have topics for you from data management to cybersecurity to social justice and data ethics. In-depth information on serious privacy topics.

This podcast, hosted by Dr. K Royal and Paul Breitbarth, 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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What in the World? A focused episode on location data

March 28, 2024 12:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MB

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 and raising money for No...

Letters of the Week: AI and TCF

March 22, 2024 03:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MB

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.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]. Rate and Review us! Proudly sponsored by TrustArc. Learn more a...

YeGads, the Ads with Alan Chapell

March 14, 2024 20:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MB

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, and more. If you ha...

Intense Privacy - IAPP UK Intensive

March 07, 2024 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MB

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 amazing people - hear wh...

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

February 28, 2024 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MB

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.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB ...

RAW privacy and GrumpyGDPR with Rie Aleksandra Walle

February 22, 2024 01:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MB

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… If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email podcast@serio...

Keeping a [low] Profile: A look at Profiling

February 15, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MB

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. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]. Rate and Review us! Proudly sponsored by TrustArc. Learn more about NymityAI at https://trustarc.com/nymityai-beta/ #heartofprivacy #europaulb #seriou...

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

February 08, 2024 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

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. If you hav...

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

January 28, 2024 14:00 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MB

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! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]. Rate and Review us! Proudly sponsored by TrustArc. Learn more about NymityAI at https://trustarc.c...

Wrapping up Season 4 - all the love

December 26, 2023 15:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MB

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 all the thing...

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

December 17, 2023 14:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB

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 TrustArc.  If you h...

A week in Privacy

December 07, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MB

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 Us from Kashmir Hill. Tune in for some fun. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email pod...

Privacy Biz and Liz (Liz Denham)

December 01, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MB

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, remember, registrati...

All messed up and places to go: a week in privacy plus Brussels (with Amit Ghadia)

November 22, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MB

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.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]. Rate and Review us! Proudly sponsor...

Norway is Nuts about Meta: The Urgency Ban with Tobias Judin

November 09, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MB

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 request from the No...

Scary yet celebrated: Spooky AI (Woodrow Hartzog)

November 02, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MB

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 an episode on ...

A Week in Privacy (or Rather a Month...)

October 26, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MB

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. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]. Rate and Review us! Proudly sponsored by TrustArc. Learn more about NymityA...

A Nordic Smörgåsbord - with Odia Kagan and the UK Bridge (and more)

October 19, 2023 01:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MB

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. If you have comments or ques...

A Nordic Smörgåsbord - The Allan Frank interview

October 13, 2023 19:00 - 8 minutes - 5.67 MB

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! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]. Rate and Review us! Proudly sponsored by TrustArc. Learn more about Nymity...

A Nordic Smörgåsbord - Live from NPA23 Part II

October 12, 2023 15:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MB

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 Nils Ingdah...

Live from Stockholm at NPA23!

October 05, 2023 06:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MB

On 26 September 2023, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal recorded the first ever Serious Privacy Live, during the Nordic Privacy Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. In the past eight years, the NPA, organised by the Swedish Data Protection Forum, has become a staple on the European conference calendar. The podcast was the opening of the second conference day, with the request to look back on what was discussed during the first day, and look ahead at day two. This episode is the recording of...

Honey, Where's the Kids' Data?

September 28, 2023 15:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB

On this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal talk about children's data, following the recent decision of the Irish Data Protection Commission in the TikTok case. Apart from a fine of 345 million Euro, the authority also ordered TikTok to change some of their policies, especially where children are concerned. Reason enough for us to dive a little deeper into children's data, age appropriate design, and what consent for children and their parents should look...

Let's go Big: Privacy Class Action Lawsuits

September 21, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MB

On this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss privacy class action lawsuits featuring articles and information from Law.com with Richard Sheinis of Hall Booth Smith and Lisa Jaffee of Hiscox Insurance on Law.com about the class action “kill chain,” and one from Miller Nash by Brian Esler and Eva Novik on the new wave of class action lawsuits, featuring the Video Privacy Protection Act - and of course, mentioning our friends Ian Ballon of Greenberg Tr...

A long week in Privacy with Paul and Dr.K

September 13, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MB

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss a lot of events in a long week of privacy as they lead up to attending the Nordic Privacy Arena, including The Norwegian Data Protection Authority ordering Meta to stop personalized advertising, Fairplay and the Center for Digital Democracy (calling for investigation related to Google ads and COPPA), Gatekeepers, China, S. Korea, SmartCars, Mozilla’s study on connected cars, OpenAI’s enterprise offering, and...

The Ecstasy and Agony of Privacy in India with Malavika Raghavan

September 06, 2023 23:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MB

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss the newly passed Digital Personal Data Act in India with Malavika Raghavan, PhD candidate in Information Systems and Innovation at the London School of Economics and Senior Fellow for India at the Future of Privacy Forum. Malavika is a lawyer with a background in policy-focused research, studying the impacts of digitisation on low-income individuals in India. In the past, she also worked several years for th...

If it's broken, fix it (UK breaches with Ralph O'Brien)

August 24, 2023 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MB

In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Ralph O’Brien (together in a long time) to discuss some of the data breaches happening in the UK, such as a breach of the electoral records and police officers in Northern Ireland, historical breach statistics, and more. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]. Rate and Review us! P...

Privacy Popcorn with Paul and K

August 16, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MB

In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal share a healthy serving of privacy popcorn featuring India’s new law, Georgia's new law, Meta news, Argentina and Kenya and Worldcoin, China, NIST Cybersecurity Framework call for comments, and more, including California's adequacy decision from the Dubai International Financial Center. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and em...

A good week in privacy with Paul and Dr. K

August 10, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB

In this episode of Serious Privacy, powered by TrustArc, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal sum up recent developments in privacy, including Meta's intent to change its legal basis and offer Europeans a choice, a notable breach in the United Kingdom involving a former politician Nigel Farage and a CEO resigning due to a breach, a TikTok decision about its practices with minors, new U.S. state privacy law, and the proposed India privacy act (now passed that quickly). We also discuss...

Tackling the Tough Topics: CSAM (Dr. Teresa Quintel and Alexander Hanff)

August 03, 2023 18:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MB

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal tackle a topic that much trigger strong reactions, Child Sexual Abuse Materials or CSAM. Our guests today have worked a lot on this topic. Dr Teresa Quintel is attached to Maastricht University and mainly works on issues related to data protection in the law enforcement sector. Alexander Hanff is a long-time privacy activist. Both were participants in a panel discussion on the same topic during this year’s CPDP Conf...

Big tech in a small world (with Tom Kemp)

July 26, 2023 17:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MB

In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Tom Kemp, a Silicon Valley based author, entrepreneur, investor, and policy advisor. He founded a cybersecurity cloud provider and was one of the drivers behind the campaign to adopt the CPRA in California. And now he has written a book containing big tech that is out later this summer. Whether we look at the whole range of new legal requirements, from the European Digital Services and Market Acts, ...

Mega Meta Privacy (Romain Robert and Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna)

July 18, 2023 15:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MB

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, vice president for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum, and Romain Robert, Program Director and lawyer at NOYB to discuss the new landmark decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union: Meta v Bundeskartellamt, where the Court not only decided that competition authorities can use data protection when deciding on the potential abuse of a dominant market positio...

Privacy Live - a week (a day...) in Privacy

July 12, 2023 19:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MB

In 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 Bunde...

A week in Privacy with fines, new laws, and Snowden!

July 05, 2023 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB

In 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 ...

Working hard for the money: Privacy in the DIFC (with Lori Baker)

June 29, 2023 07:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

While 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 leg...

AI: Not so Intelligent and not so Artificial

June 21, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MB

In 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....

Nomadic Privacy - A World full of topics with R. Jason Cronk

June 15, 2023 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MB

In 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 Operati...

Vendor Management - it's a real thing

June 07, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MB

In 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 [email protected]. 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 IG @seriousprivacy @p...

Big Developments this week - with Ralph O'Brien

June 01, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MB

In 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 alw...

A non-earth shattering week in privacy

May 25, 2023 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MB

It'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.....

viva México: A chat with INAI (Dr. Jonathan Mendoza)

May 18, 2023 02:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MB

In 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....

Around the world in a week in privacy

May 10, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MB

In 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 [email protected]. 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 IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy ...

My Health, My Data, My Goodness - The new WA law (with Mike Hintze)

May 03, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MB

In 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 firs...

150 episodes - A bloody good time with the EDPS, Wojciech Wiewiorowski

April 27, 2023 00:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MB

In 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....

The truth and nothing but the truth: Europol (with Daniel Drewer and Jan Ellerman)

April 19, 2023 16:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MB

In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company connected with two key individuals at Europol:  Daniel Drewer who is the head of Europol's data protection office and Jan Ellerman, one of the senior experts. Europol isn’t quite the way it is portrayed in the movies, so tune in for the real story. You can probably imagine the amount of personal data that is needed to make all the crime analysis. Because of that, Europol for a long time alr...

So... a privacy pro walked into a bar.... IAPP GPS23

April 12, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MB

In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company capture key moments of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit #GPS23.  We chatted with privacy friends and those who shared breakfast or lunch with us - an audience participation table! Join us as we connect with Kelli Lu, Maggie Gloeckle, Jon Bourke, Lily Russell, Eduardo Ustaren, ShanShan Pa, Isabel Hahn, Gamelah Palagonia, and others!  As alwa...

A State of Compliance (with Ralph O'Brien)

April 07, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MB

At the end of March, Dr. K Royal started her new role with Crawford & Company, and because of that, was traveling to the company's headquarters in Atlanta (GA). That same week, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki was teaching a new data protection course with our favourite guest co-host Ralph O'Brien at Maastricht University's European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity: a Masterclass on privacy management and data governance.  Therefore, this week, a discussion on the ins and outs of privacy mana...

Data Transfers: Will We Ever Learn? (With dr. Laura Drechsler)

March 29, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MB

In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company talk with dr. Laura Drechsler, Research Fellow at the Centre for IT and IP Law (CITIP) at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. They discuss Laura's work on cross-border data transfers, comparing the decisions of the European courts and the guidance of the data protection authorities with the adequacy decisions that have been published by the European Commission. It is clear there is ...

Coulda woulda shoulda - a talk on Ethics

March 22, 2023 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MB

In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool tackle the tough topics of Ethics in data protection and privacy. This week's episode may be a little bit more philosophical than our usual ones. No big updates on what's happening in the world of privacy, but instead of conversation about ethics, what does it mean to take an ethical approach to data processing? And how does it work on a daily basis?  This includes a perspective by Bojana Bellamy th...

A busy week in privacy with Paul and Dr. K

March 16, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MB

In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool bring you a recap of a very busy week in privacy. Earlier this week, we released a special episode on the UK data protection and digital information bill. But today you get the episode we actually intended for you this week, a regular weekend privacy episode, including information on the #Thingy, cookie banners, BCRs, and more. Resources discussed:  IAPP state privacy law tracking Husch Blackwell s...

Extra British Dispatch - The New UK GDPR (with Ralph O'Brien & Claire Archibald)

March 13, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes - 19.9 MB

On 8 March 2023, the UK Government introduced the long awaited update for the UK GDPR, now called the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, in the House of Commons. According to the press release, British business will be able to save many billions of pounds when this bill becomes law, but not everybody agrees that is true. In this extra episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool talk with Ralph O'Brien, our go-to UK expert and guest co-hos...

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