Serious Privacy

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy ,  Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal connect to cover a week in privacy as Paul Breitbarth is away. This weeks shorter episode includes a guide to what’s coming up from Serious Privacy at IAPP summit in DC, a penalty from the UK ICO, EDPB draft Guidance on blockchain, state laws, enforcement actions, and more! Please subscribe in...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal have a short week in privacy (a lot about #Meta and children using #AI) along with some updates on the IAPP #GPS25 where we learned that it was all about the people, such as our friends at TrustArc , Ben Siegal, Dan Solove, and so many others. Please subscribe in your favorite...

Send us Fan Mail We are a little late this week, but with good reason: Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal were attending the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington D.C. and bring you their report from the Opening General Session of the conference. The speakers during this session were professor Lawrence Lessig, Hans Peter Brøndmo and Catie Cuan, each reflecting on 25 years of IAPP and what is next...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal connect with Darren Abernethy of Greenberg Traurig to discuss all things #cookies and #trackers. Please subscribe in your favorite podcast app - sharing is caring!  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @serio...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien , and Dr. K Royal make it personal. They talk about their own mental health in light of busy workloads and global developments, whether privacy related or not. And they talk about the 23andme bankruptcy and what that means for personal data, as well as a fine issued by the Jersey Data Protection Authority.. Please s...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal talk about the controversy with executive changes to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission #FTC, the UK #adequacy extension, and the Norwegian decision about Data Protection Officer #DPO conflicts of interest. Please subscribe in your favorite podcast app - sharing is caring!  If y...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal cover a month in privacy. This includes UK adequacy, the March meeting of the European Data Protection Board where they released a statement on the implementation of the PNR directive, we talk about BCRS and the number of companies who have adopted BCRs and BSPRs , and the UK l...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal connect with MissIGGeek herself, Rowenna Fielding on all things ethics. Please subscribe in your favorite podcast app - sharing is caring!  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb....

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal join Joanne Furtsch, VP extraordinaire of TrustArc to discuss all things #AI. Tune in to learn about the practical and innovative aspects of AI and its privacy and data protection implications. Please subscribe in your favorite podcast app - sharing is caring!  If you have comm...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , were off (busy with professional lives), so Dr. K Royal connected with Joe Jones of the IAPP , Director of Research and Insights. They discuss how Joe got started in privacy - building from international trade as a lawyer and then BAM! Out came the GDPR, Joe then migrated to the #UK government...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal , catch up on data protection and privacy developments from around the globe. Up for discussion this week: The repeal of the proposal for an ePrivacy Regulation and AI Liability Directive ( link ) The EDPB guidelines on age assurance and recommendations to the World Anti Doping...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal launch the first week in privacy for 2025. Topics include the EDPS election, AI, and US state laws and enforcement - among others!  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europa...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal interview with Wayne Unger , a #constitutional scholar and Assistant Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University . They delve into recent #U.S. #political events under the new administration. The discussion covers the legality of #executiveorders, implications for #priv...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal launch the first week in privacy for 2025. Topics include State laws in the US entering into effect (link to White & Case article, but bonus for 10 areas for US-based privacy programs to focus in 2025 from Hintze Law ) to a TikTok ban that was there and then it...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien , and Dr. K Royal ring in the new year with Val Ilchenko , General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer of TrustArc . No topic was off limits! We discussed the ghosts of Privacy past, now, and future. Tune in to hear all about it as we kick off the new year on #GlobalDataPrivacyday / #GlobalDataProtectionDay 2025! Plea...

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of the year, hosts Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O’Brien discuss the highlights of the fifth season of the Serious Privacy podcast, reflecting on the pivotal moments in privacy throughout 2024. They share insights into their favorite episodes, the progression and challenges within global privacy laws, and personal milestones. The hosts also predict...

Send us Fan Mail A final week in privacy episode of Serious Privacy in 2024, where Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal once again give the lead to Big Tech. And Netflix.  From all of us in the podcast team, we wish you and your loved ones happy holidays. Stay tuned for the season 5 finale! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @serio...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Dr. K Royal and Ralph O'Brien speak with Cathleen Doyel of our sponsor TrustArc about all things contract management. Cathleen has been a commercial contract lawyer for many years, in recent times with a strong focus on data protection clauses. For most of us, contracts are never fun, so this is your opportuni...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with John Keeves , partner at Johnson Winter Slatterly in Australia to discuss all things Australia. In particular we discussed the Cyber Security Act of 2024 and other recent changes and enforcement activities. Tune in for some #livinglearninglaughing. If you have comments or questions, find us...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a relatively slow week in privacy, including a settlement with Oracle out of California , some new WorldCoin investigations , KOSA , and a position paper from BEUC so we also throw in some frank discussion of AI tools and how they can help in our personal and professional lives. Tune in for some #l...

Send us Fan Mail Mid November is the time of the year where the data protection community comes together in Brussels for the annual IAPP Data Protection Congress. Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal were not able to join this year, but our third host Ralph O'Brien was in town, and has grabbed some people in between sessions for interviews. This week on Serious Privacy, you get his report. Listen...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal catch up on some happenings in the privacy world. We discussed US election results and a peek at some potential changes to come , such as appointments to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board , EU first review of the thingy (the EU US Data Privacy Framework ), (please note - there is no need to...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal along with esteemed co-host and colleague Ralph O’Brien bring you the day 2 of the #GPA ( Global Privacy Assembly ) in #Jersey. We feature open conversations with Eduardo Ustaren of Hogan Lovells ; Shana Morgan, Global Head of Privacy & AI Legal Compliance , L3Harris Technologies ; Alexander McD Whit...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal along with esteemed co-host and colleague Ralph O’Brien bring you the opening day of the #GPA ( Global Privacy Assembly ) in #Jersey. We set up a table in the common room and snagged passing celebrities to join us for some open conversation, such as Paul Vane Information Commissioner at Jersey Office of...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy should actually have been released two weeks ago, but life happened... As usual however, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal discuss recent developments in privacy and data protection laws around the world. In this episode, they discuss: Opinion on certain obligations following from the reliance on processor(s) and sub-processor(s) Guidelines on the pro...