Serious Privacy

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and  Dr. K Royal review hot news over the past week including enforcement against Meta - Cambridge Analytica just won't die, cybersecurity, and other stories in our world. And a big Congrats to Maastricht University's European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) for its 10th anni...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal connect with @Noel Luke, of @TrustArc to discuss all things certifiable... pretty sure we can all agree that one is certifiably blessed to work in this fabulous field. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousp...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Paul Bretibarth, and Ralph O'Brien cover a smashing week in privacy! Dr. K Royal is at the @Association of Corporate Counsel in Boston speaking on Information Governance (with @tanya Avila, sajju george, and Stacey Shaw). Paul and Ralph got you covered with all the good stuff! @ trustarc  If you have comments or questions, find u...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal host the #CPPA California Privacy Protecction Agency 's General Counsel, @ Phil Laird and what a fascinating conversation! We hated to say good-bye! Paul Breitbarth was out this spisode, so it will be another week for the scooby gang. @ trustarc  If you have comments or questions, find us on Lin...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Paul Breitbarth  and Dr. K Royal discuss a week in privacy and they seem to be themes but not dreams. privacy is a work in progress. Ralph O'Brien was out this week. @ trustarc  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy....

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Dr. K Royal was unepectedly solo ( Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , were both traveling). So she provides a completely unscripted episode covering changes she has seen in the past 2 decades aloing with some news highlights. She promised not to sing too much. @ trustarc  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and I...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal take a moment (or 41 moments) to reflect on the meaning, history, and honor on 9/11. It's a humbling podcast, but one you will enjoy. We also bake in some privacy news. @ trustarc @ Paul Breitbarth , If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on B...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal cover a week in privacy, with a pretty random bag of stuff!  We discuss enforcement actions, AI legislation, jewellery, password advice, special category data and all the latest news and views! Australian consultation https://consultations.ag.gov.au/rights-and-protections/privacy-reform/ Carey lemi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal cover a week in privacy, enforcement actions, breaches, settlements (dud you see the one with Meta?), and more. Check out this website for visualizations of data breaches  https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/  If you have comments o...

Send us Fan Mail The real problem with complaints isn’t that people are complaining. It’s that unhappy people don’t usually show up unless something already went wrong. So when the ICO says it has to triage harder, that’s the tension. Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal connect with Dom Smith of the UK's Information Commissione...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, review the Meta Smart Glasses and privacy issues just before a solar eclipse occurs. We've decided we like the Duck, Duck, Go version. They include a brief week in privacy. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien speak with the Privacy Commissioner of Australia , Carly Kind , about the legislative developments in Australia, indigenous privacy, enforcement action on data breaches, and of course the U 16 social media ban.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy in the midst of hot temperatures in Europe and multiple fires arund the world. This week, we bring you some enforcement activities, regulator inquiries, old laws for new purposes, and guidance from various regulators on child safety. If you have comments...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy. We have some jucy news from Europe, New Jersey, and the United Kingdom. Tune in! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal , celebrate 300 episodes. And for this milestone, we invited Philippe Dufresne - Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Privacy Assembly . It is a fascinating discussion and one not to miss! If you have comments or questions, find us on Li...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and  Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy. And we discuss some of the hot topics including an European Data Protection Board (EDPB) we also look at the EDPB guidelines on anonymisation , and Web scraping , including data dimensionality - which we looked up live! We also discussed Prince Harry&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy. Let's be honest though - it's really the US Supreme Court reent decisions in Slaughter and Chatrie. Tune in for a lievely discussion. Oh - and we're also on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@seriousprivacypodcast Chatrie v. United States (...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, ( Paul Breitbarth was out) meet with the phenomenal Samantha Simms . We had the best time going deep on some really substantive issues, even starting with Samantha's answer on the unexpected question. Join us as we discuss key issues and the digital colonization. If you have comments or questio...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Ralph O'Brien , Dr. K Royal, and Paul Breitbarth explores the implications of proposed social media age restrictions in the UK to under 16s, through the insights of university student (and our editor!) Fey O'Brien, emphasising the importance of digital literacy and open communications. As the debate surrounding social media...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast , where Ralph O'Brien , Dr. K Royal, and Paul Breitbarth each provide a summary of the respective conferences they attended. The IAPP AI conference in Dublin , Games Expo , and Governance of Emerging Tech . Enjoy! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien , Dr. K Royal , and Paul Breitbarth discuss surveillance in all of its lovely permutations along with some current news. 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....

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal , while Paul Breitbarth is out, meet with Ryan Boos of TrustArc . What's on the mic? Simplification of privacy programs. Ryan comes to this with the experience to back up his knowledge - he has fought in the data trenches and flown through the danger zone! Okay... he has major chops. If you have...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal , while Paul Breitbarth is out, discuss some reent events, namely graduation speakers, boos, and AI. 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.seri...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode of a week in privacy, hosts Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien discuss some key movements in privacy, data protection, cyber law, and AI around the world. Dr. K Royal was off speaking at a Governance or Emerging Tech and Science conference in Arizona. Join Paul and Ralph to cover both the highs and lows and share concerns about trends we are seeing....

Send us Fan Mail If ever there was a time to take AI governance seriously, it is now. Luckily, our guest today has written a great book about it. This week on the Serious Privacy podcast, Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal speak with Shoshana Rosenberg . She is Managing Director of Logical AI Governance , General Counsel at SafePorter and of course one of the founders of the Wome...