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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend us your ears!  We've come to discuss if transparency matters, not to bury it. The insufficient privacy decisions that men do lives after them; The efforts for better privacy is oft interred with their business minded decisions; So let it be with transparency. The noble controllers hath told you GDPR is impossibly ambitious: if it were so, it was a grievous fault,...

It's about time you fell in love with something  that will love you back, and that, our friends, is the crossroad of privacy, government openness, and freedom of speech. It doesn't judge you, and we won't either.  The European Court of Justice, however, will totally judge you, even if it goes against deep roots or local law in your country. In this episode, Pilvi and Jyri will discuss the new (Fin...

In this episode Milla, Pilvi, and Jyri try to save their faces after the Episode #51 meltdown only to discover that they are forever changed by that experience. Just when we brace ourselves to move forward like "a granny in a bog" as the Finns say, we hear a suspicious announcement: "Please remain calm, the end of the pre-DMA era has arrived, we cannot save you, enjoy the ride" that pushes us into...

We started this episode with so much enthusiasm, positivity, and excitement but we ended up thinking that this is the episode we wish to exercise our right to be forgotten on. We start with the Google case on, you guessed it, right to be forgotten, where the Swedish court ordered Google to pay SEK 50 million in fines and declared that Google cannot provide publishers a list of de-listed websites t...

Take a tight grip on your cups listeners, because today we are spilling the hottest tea of the legal world, a behind the scenes story of the AI Act. We delve into this with a person who had the front seat at the closed-door tea party: Dan Nechita, the Head of Cabinet to Romanian MEP Dragos Tudorache (Renew Europe) at the European Parliament. Dragos Tudorache has served as a rapporteur on the file....

A new year of PrivacyPod is kicked off with an episode covering the hottest topics and most intriguing privacy news so far! Hosted by Milla and Laura, in this show our privacy DSARs speculate what the actual is up with Meta's consent or subscribe. And it would not be a 2024 privacy show if we would not dip in to what to expect in 2024 regarding recently leaked the EU AI Act. We discuss a German ca...

In this week's episode Milla discusses with Gabriel Silva from TravelPerk the best practices for using AI to enhance your work as a privacy professional. TravelPerk has recently started using a custom-built Legal Bot, which crunches through hundreds of privacy and other legal questions. What do you need to consider when you outsource legal work to a bot? How do you finetune the model to make sure...

This week on PrivacyPod: EDPB's guidelines on the infamous cookie article! EDPB published a couple of weeks back guidelines on the technical scope of Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive (also known as the golden rule… no, sorry, the cookie rule). Hannes (!), Heikki (!!), Laura (!!!!) and Milla (????) go through the guidelines, speculating why do we get guidelines on this topic right now, consid...

In this awaited and exciting episode Milla and Pilvi are experiencing a true fangirl moment as they welcome Tobias Judin, the Head of International Department at the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, Datatilsynet. Accompanied by our new co-host Jyri they will dive into to discuss the Meta case on its rocky road with its legal basis for behavior based advertising. Norwegian DPA has not only talk...

In this news episode, Milla and Pilvi jump into the most interesting news (in their opinion at least) of the recent weeks and that takes us to a journey that will include Googling, Star Wars, elderly millennials trying to exists in the world they don't understand, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's book Émile ou De l'éducation from 1762. But we also actually go through the recent privacy news, including...

In this episode, Hannes and Milla welcome Jussi Leppälä, the of Valmet (a leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries) to delve into the interesting world of IoT -based data sharing of the future.  What is the underlying intent of the Data Act? How does it interact with other data laws? How will it be enforced? Delving de...

Meta is considering a move to cookie-paywall some listeners may know (and already hate) from German newspaper websites. As the legal basis for Meta's personalised ads (the company's main money-maker) is being pushed towards consent from all fronts, Meta is considering desperate means. But is it all just a ruse, as convincing as Meta's earlier threats about leaving the EU because of data transfer i...

In this episode, join Pilvi, Hannes, and Floora as they take a deep dive into the world of Mergers and Acquisitions (commonly known as M&A) from a privacy perspective. They'll explore the intriguing question of whether the M&A process differs in the realm of privacy compared to other areas of law. If so, what sets it apart, and does it make sense to approach privacy M&A in the traditional manner?...

Joost Case Corner (JCC) is back! As per usual, there's no way we will cover all of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) goodness in under one hour, so buckle up for an extra-long special episode. Its a perfect catch up with the lates court action and since its been a while, we can hear our presenters (Milla mainly) trip over some pretty basic EU abbreviations. So all you EU nerds ther...

This week Pilvi and Milla do a deep dive into two recent cookie related rulings from Nordic data protection authorities. First we discuss the Bonnier case from IMY, the Swedish data protection authority. Whilst not strictly only about cookies, this case discusses the further processing of data collected with cookies - and more specifically, whether this processing can be based on legitimate intere...

This week we are fangirling over Wolt's approach to algorithmic transparency. We have Wolt's public policy manager Ylwa Rein join us for this episode, where we walk through the process of creating an algorithmic transparency report: what's the legal background and requirements, who to involve in the project, how to get management buy-in and much more. We also chat with Ylwa about finding a job whe...

In this episode, Milla and Pilvi take a look at the brand new Data Privacy Framework. The discussions include but you bet are not limited to topics such as the sadly-not-so-funky-name of the framework (why not Privacy Trampoline?) and the identity crisis that surely all privacy professionals shall now have to face: who are we without the discussions and work on US transfers? What should one do wit...

In this episode of PrivacyPod, Joost and Panu talk to professor Herke Kranenborg who holds a chair in European Data Protection and Privacy Law at Maastricht University. In addition, professor Kranenborg is a member of the European Commission's Legal Service, which serves as an in-house legal counsel to the commission as well as represents the Commission in the Court of European Union in Luxembourg...

In this episode, Milla, Pilvi , and Panu take a look at the Meta case on the US transfers that ended up costing Meta 1.2 billion euros. We explore the depths of the case, such as how Meta justified their transfers, what supplementary measures were used that were not deemed sufficient, and debate a bit on the politics intertwined with the case. But hold on! We have more! We also take a look at the...

In this week's episode Floora, Milla and our guest host Joost discuss how to look at AI through the lenses of privacy and data protection. With so much hype around the topic, we go through the most important developments in the past weeks. On one hand, proponents of AI regulation argue that without proper oversight, AI could cause harm to privacy, whether intentionally or unintentionally. For exam...

In this episode of PrivacyPod with  Anja Wyrobek , a Legal Policy Advisor and European Parliament, we will dive into lengthy development of ePrivacy Regulation, its impact on cookies (one may not forget cookies), encryption and impact of combat against child sexual abuse material thereto. Eprivacy, the troublesome uncle of GDPR who just doesnt seem to get its act together, is on the talks, again....

This week we discuss everything around U.S. privacy with a special guest, Odia Kagan! Odia is a Partner and Chair of GDPR Compliance and International Privacy at Fox Rothschild, a US-based law firm with 29 offices across the United States. What was that last week's discussion on banning TikTok all about? What is happening with U.S. privacy legislation right now, and how is FTC enforcing privacy re...

Have you ever felt bad about clicking "decline all" on a cookie consent? Has that button been difficult to find? And if you finally find it, has the website spawned a pop up message trying to tell you how they will go bankrupt and the world will end if you do not accept all? If you answered yes to any of the previous questions, congratulations -- you have been subjected to dark patterns.  In this...

This week, we talk with Romain Robert, a Program Director and a senior lawyer working at NOYB. For the few who might not know, NOYB is a Austrian NGO founded by Max Schrems, who is probably a familiar name to everyone in the privacy world (heard of Scherms I or Schrems II anyone?). Romain has extensive and interesting background and can claim a rare feat of actually taking part in writing the GDPR...

And we are back once again with Joosts Case Corner! This time we dive deep into the past, present and future of the Court of Justice of the European Union with upcoming cases as well as latest judgments. Panu and Joost explore the continous push and pull of GDPR enforcement. On the other hand, it seems like the GDPR puts aside any rights (the Luxembourg Business Registers case). On the other, ther...