Serious Privacy

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool connect with Lauren Reid , a privacy and digital ethics consultant and president of The Privacy Pro in Toronto.  Listen as Paul and Dr. K connect on all things current in Canada, especially related to C27 , the newest proposal to update PIPEDA  - following up from C11 , which failed to pass...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool have a robust conversation with W. Curtis Preston , (on Twitter as W. Curtis Preston ), the Chief Technical Evangelist with Druva, Inc. . In this conversation, Mr. Backup himself, explains the difference between backups and archives, reminiscences about tape backups, and provides insight on...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool includes Eric Rind , CEO and founder of ImagineBC . Eric is a former HR consultant, turned tech entrepreneur. Who's trying to build a digital community to allow people to monetize their personal information. Every once in a while you hear a blockchain application that still spikes an in...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool we go back to China discussing the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). You will actually be listening to the audio of a recent webinar organised by TrustArc, which they hosted together with former colleague Yi Lu.  PIPL applies to all organisations doing business in China or targetin...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool meet to discuss some recent events in the privacy and data protection world, such as the proposed American Data Protection and Privacy Act, as the hearings, featuring comments presented from Caitriona Fitzgerald, Deputy Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC); David Brod...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool is a little different than the norm as the IAPP hosted its first Data Protection Intensive: Nederland 2022 .  Although K could not attend, she and Paul discussed a couple of substantive questions he could ask to [unsuspecting] participants. And those interviewees were quite knowledgeable.  T...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool connect with Paolo Balboni , who is attached to Maastricht University ’s European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity as Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law. Last March, researchers at Maastricht University published the first-ever complete Corporate Social Responsibilit...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , recorded on the anniversary of the GDPR ( watch the recent webinar ), Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool catch up on the past week or so in privacy.  What exciting things - or not so exciting things have happened. Most seem to be in the area of cross-border transfers.  Join us as we discuss some history with the GDPR, with...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool take some time to review recent events in the privacy / data protection world. This week, this means they cover the Connecticut Act concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act - the PDPOM… Paul has a cool name for it. Connecticut’s act passed on May 10, 2022 and takes effect...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool take some time to review recent events in the privacy / data protection world. This week, this means they cover the Connecticut Act concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act - the PDPOM… Paul has a cool name for it. Connecticut’s act passed on May 10, 2022 and takes effect...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth   and Dr. K Royal connect with Victoria Beckman , the lead over Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit for the Americas and an award-winning woman in cybersecurity. Victoria is a former law student of K’s at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and they both wound up in privacy-related fields. Of course, Vict...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth introduces an episode where Dr. K Royal caught up with several individuals at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit held in Washington DC at the Marriott Marquis . It was a truly wonderful event, the first Global privacy Summit since 2019, with thousands of privacy professionals in attendance. Attendees included professionals from all o...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy, sponsored by TrustArc , heads south to Africa. Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool chat with Teki Akuetteh , the first Executive Director of the Ghana Data Protection Authority and current Chair of the Africa Digital Rights Hub .  The conversation covered quite a bit of ground, starting with how privacy has developed in Africa,...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy, sponsored by TrustArc , Paul Breitbarth and K Royal some with Angelique Carson . Angelique is currently with TerraTrue but Paul and K know her best from when she was with the IAPP , International Association of Privacy Professionals. Angelique had launched the IAPP's podcast years ago,  where K was one the very first guests . The conversati...

Send us Fan Mail In the 100th episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal connect with two of the biggest names in the privacy field, Chris Babel , the CEO of TrustArc and Hilary Wandall , Chief Compliance Officer at Dun and Bradstreet. Both Chris and Hilary were instrumental in launching Serious Privacy and critical to its success. In this completely unscripted and candid conversa...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool review what might seem to be small events in privacy developments, but are really robust once reviewed. They touch on a spotify case in Barcelona , the Spanish Data Protection Commissioner search on hold, and events in Belgium. In addition, on the US side, a DC judge ruled that Mark Zucke...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal catch up with the renowned Kirk Nahra , co-chair of both the Big Data Practice and the Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice for WilmerHale . K and Kirk have known each other for years - mostly related to US healthcare law, long before Kirk won the IAPP Vanguard Award in 2021 . They discuss the US Health Insurance Portab...

Send us Fan Mail We live in strange times that often remind us how important it is to live our lives in freedom and to enjoy our fundamental rights. This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal talk about the war in Ukraine, but also about a lot of data protection related developments around the world.  Topics include the new privacy law that is awaiting the Governor’s signature in Ut...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal speak with Sjoera Nas . Sjoera is a long time privacy professional and privacy activist. She became involved with digital rights in the late 1990s and early 2000s, while working for the Dutch internet service provider XS4all, and later for civil rights group Bits of Freedom. But Sjoera is probably best known for her work at...

Send us Fan Mail In this week of Serious Privacy brought to you by TrustArc , Paul Breitbarth   and K Royal share some news, discuss current events, and review both recent privacy developments and upcoming guests for the show. Topics covered include decisions involving tech companies, such as Facebook, Google, and Grindr, as well as general information on assessing risks.  Join us as we discuss pr...

Send us Fan Mail In this week of Serious Privacy by TrustArc , K Royal and Paul Breitbarth have a conversation with Anne-Charlotte Recker and Julian Deckers of the Belgian Data Protection Authority. Both work for the DPAs Litigation Chamber, which on 2 February 2022 released their long-awaited decision on the legality of the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) developed by the Interactive Adv...

Send us Fan Mail In this week of Serious Privacy by TrustArc , K Royal and Paul Breitbarth catch up with one of the oldest and most respected names in privacy, Marty Abrams , the Executive Director and Chief Strategist of the Information Accountability Foundation . Marty has 35 years of experience as an information and consumer policy innovator. Multi-stakeholder collaboration has been a key for h...

Send us Fan Mail On 28 January 1981, the Council of Europe opened up the Convention 108 , the world’s first globally binding instrument on the protection of personal data.  Since 2007, the privacy community celebrates International Data Protection Day (Data Privacy Day). For  #SeriousPrivacy, it is our season launch.  K Royal and Paul Breitbarth talk about many of the recent developments in data p...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal say goodbye to season 2 of Serious Privacy and look forward to season 3. 2021 might be a year that many of us actually would like to forget but for the privacy community, it was an exciting year and a lot of good things have happened. We have new laws, new guidance, more enforcement and court decisions, and a continuously e...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal take some time to review recent events or developments in privacy and data protection. With little happening in the U.S. (where is Ohio’s privacy law ?), the focus is more on Europe and India. K and Paul discuss the European Data Protection Board’s recent guidance on international transfers , the new decision by the Wiesbad...