Masters of Privacy

Nick Baskett is DPO at Holland & Barrett. He has a personal interest in ethics and philosophy, encryption and AI, and he once published a book on Data Protection Impact Assessments. He was also the founder of one of the early Cyber Security consultancies in the UK (Matta). With Nick we have discussed best practices around Data Protection Impact Assessments or Privacy Impact Assessments, including...

Catherine King is a content creator, moderator, enabler and instructor in the fields of data ethics and also the broader data and analytics space. She is currently global head of brand engagement at Orbition.  Catherine was recently a speaker at the Ethics in eCommerce Summit in London (put together by the Ethical Commerce Alliance) in which we coincided.  With her we have explored a more controve...

With Nina Müller, Ethical Commerce Alliance Director and host of the Ethical Allies podcast. __ Notes: A more comprehensive coverage of all relevant updates can be found on our blog . The topics below have been specifically addressed during this recording: GDPR fines reached a new record when the Irish DPA, following considerable pressure from the EDPB, issued a 1.2bn EUR fine to Meta for its inab...

Adam Klee has an impressive resume in the AdTech world, having worked at Disney, Google, NBC, Twitter, Polar, or Spotify. He is the founder of Licorice, a platform that “gives consumers the privacy they want and publishers the data they need”. Adam’s passion for solving this problem comes from both his years developing new ways to help drive better yield for publishers, and his experience as a con...

Eve-Christie Vermynck is a dual-admitted lawyer (civil law, common law) working at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. She advises clients on Cybersecurity, Privacy, IT/IP, blockchain and related topics. She is also a member of the Data Law Committee at The City of London Law Society. With Eve-Christie we are going to discuss the specific practical steps when it comes to dealing with personal da...

As a lawyer turned entrepreneur, Dr. Mattia Fosci combines privacy and AdTech expertise. He is the founder and CEO of Anonymised, an advertising platform that helps publishers understand and monetise their audiences at scale across all browsers and devices, using only anonymous data. We have covered or touched on: The many limitations of contextual advertising and why it will not solve the most pr...

With Nina Müller, Ethical Commerce Alliance Director and host of the Ethical Allies podcast. __ This was a pretty active season in terms of regulatory updates and decisions or guidelines coming out of supervisory bodies:  Spain’s AEPD issued a decision on the use of Google Analytics by the Royal Academy of Spanish Language (“RAE”), becoming the first EU Data Protection Agency to see the glass half...

Nicola Newitt is a UK qualified lawyer who trained in private practice and worked at Slaughter and May before moving in-house to start her privacy career in Bupa’s international health insurance business. She is now Senior Privacy and Product Counsel at InfoSum, a leading Data Clean Room. With Nicola we have covered a very hot topic for anyone in the Marketing Technology or AdTech spaces. Our disc...

Joana is Partner at Cuatrecasas, where she leads the Technology, Media and Telecom team. She has also worked for 3 years at ANACOM, Portugal's telecom and media regulator and one of the two supervisory authorities when it comes to the ePrivacy Directive in Portugal, the other being the Portuguese Data Protection Authority. Besides being fully versed in the opportunities presented by blockchain tec...

Sunny Seon Kang is Global Privacy Counsel at VISA, specializing in AI Governance and Privacy Enhancing Technologies. She is well versed in comparative privacy law across the US, the EU and the UK. She has studied at Stanford and Berkeley in the US, as well as UCL in London, and is a member of the New York Bar. With Sunny we are discussing a highly complex but very exciting topic: Privacy-Preservin...

Tim Walters is a strategist, analyst, advisor, and speaker sitting at the intersection of data privacy, customer experience, and marketing strategy. Privacy Lead at Content Advisory, as well as founder of Zero Theory, Tim previously founded The Digital Clarity Group. He has also been a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research.  Some of his keynotes and publications include: “The Total Impossibility of...

Jose Belo (FIP, CIPP/E, CIPM) is a legal professional and Data Protection Officer, specialized in data protection, privacy and compliance. Jose is currently an International Research Fellow at the ISLC at the University of Milan (Italy). His last professional engagement was as Head of Data Privacy at Valuer.ai , an AI-powered tech company from Copenhagen, Denmark. Since January 2022, Jose has been...

Sandy Tsakiridi is a ​​ dual-qualified Senior Legal Counsel in HSBC's global Data Privacy team. As part of her responsibilities, she provides advice on privacy-related matters, including privacy risk management across all customer-facing lines of business and internal functions of the HSBC Group. Prior to her current role, Sandy worked as an external legal counsel in leading international law firm...

Brendan Quinn (Esq.) is a qualified Irish Solicitor, New York Attorney, and Fellow of the Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), holding an LL.M from University College Dublin and Higher Diplomas in Computer Science and Data Analytics, as well as a postgraduate in Financial Technology. He is also the author of Data Protection Implementation Guide: A Legal, Risk and Technology Framework for the GD...

With Nina Müller, Ethical Commerce Alliance Director and host of the Ethical Allies podcast. References: Full Newsroom (Fall 2022) Tara Taubman-Bassirian on the Instagram fine Peter Hense on valid consent Cory Underwood on Google Analytics and Sephora Derek A. Lackey on Joe Biden’s Executive Order (a marketer’s perspective) Stephan Grynwajc on Joe Biden’s Executive Order (a lawyer’s perspective) S...

Stephan Grynwajc is admitted as a lawyer in the EU, the UK, the US and Canada, having worked as a privacy practitioner and DPO in both Europe and North America for the last 20 years. His own law firm offers external DPO services to EU/UK and US/Canada-based companies. Stephan is also a partner specialized in international privacy at Outside GC, a bicoastal US law firm. Stephan publishes regularly...

Derek A. Lackey is Managing Director of Newport Thomson, a Privacy Agency based in Toronto. With more than 30 years of marketing, advertising and privacy experience, he is focused on data protection & privacy and its effect on the brand. Derek is the author of “CASL Compliance: A Marketer’s Guide to Email Marketing to Canadians”, and looks to simplify the implementation of new data management prac...

Peter Hense is a partner at Spirit Legal, Germany. He specializes in data privacy litigation, particularly in the area of Advertising Technology. In this episode we discuss the uselessness and potential demise of Consent Management Platforms (CMPs) in a first-party data future. We will also touch on Data Clean Rooms and whether they actually deserve the label. References:  Peter Hense on Twitter S...

Tara Taubman-Bassirian is a French lawyer specialized in Privacy, Internet law and Intellectual Property. She is a published author, for many years raising awareness of privacy, data protection and cybersecurity issues. Tara has also launched an initiative, Fly A Kite, to raise cybersecurity awareness especially to keep kids safe online. She also holds an LLM from Queen Mary University.  Reference...

Cory Underwood combines in-depth technical expertise in the MarTech and Analytics space with a thorough understanding of the ePrivacy legal framework. He has hands-on experience in Distributed System Design, A/B Testing, Tag Management or Analytics - and writes extensively about the intersection of digital analytics and cross-border privacy compliance. References: Cory Underwood’s blog Global Priv...

Mike J. Schmidt has extensive experience as an Advisor and Solutions Architect working worldwide in Identity Access Management (IAM), Data Privacy, and AI. He was one of the founders of MyData Global’s Canada Hub and has recently relocated to Spain. Together we are revisiting a few key topics: personal agency, identity, informed consent, MyData Operators, and AI. References: Celine Takatsuno on My...

Hi again! We are bringing our regular “Newsroom” updates to this channel, covering quarterly news on five particular topics:  ePrivacy and regulatory framework MarTech and AdTech in a Privacy-First world Competition and digital markets Zero-Party Data and Customer Centricity The future of media We will add relevant links on a subsequent blog post. Please find more information and resources on mast...

Maciej Zawadziński is an AdTech and MarTech expert, founder of several successful companies and online privacy rights advocate. Striving towards more conscious data use and a healthier digital advertising ecosystem, Maciej is currently devoting his knowledge and skills to developing Piwik PRO – a privacy-focused analytics platform, the perfect alternative to Google Analytics.   We have debated the...

Celine Takatsuno is our most recent addition to the PrivacyCloud team. We have asked her to help us understand the current status of the various business models falling under the umbrella of a set of principles that the MyData Global organization has come to embody: human-centric control of personal data, individual empowerment, transparency, interoperability, etc.  More specifically, we have gone...

As an answer to the obvious legal challenges of ID-based, cross-media deduplication (currently greater than those faced by third-party cookies), Google Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox, and its related W3C Working Group, provides a framework for advertisers and publishers to leverage a browser-level interest graph while preserving anonymity, through the use of aggregate data and minimum audience threshold...