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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...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth and and Dr. K Royal , while Ralph O'Brien is out, discuss some fascinating news. Catch what's happening. First up - a decision from Spain on when data processing starts. We are so confused. #unexpectedquestion what fruit would be disappointed by the name we gave it? If you have comments or questions, find us o...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth , Dr. K Royal , and Ralph O'Brien connect with Daragh O'Brien of Castlebridge to talk about data governance, the weaponisation of DSARs (data subject access requests), and all the complexities thereof. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @s...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth , Dr. K Royal , and Ralph O'Brien celebrated the 10th anniversary of the #GDPR! Yea!! Okay, there is some debate on the birthday date, whether it is 2016 or 2018... where one is when it was signed into law and the other when enforcement went live.  We challenge poeple to vote!  We discussed the highs, the lows, the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O'Brien meet with Dr. Alexandra Delaney-Bhattacharya, Information Commissioner for the Isle of Man to discuss her experiences, professional growth, priorities, and outlook. It's a rousing good discussion and one listeners everywhere should love. If you have comments or questions, find u...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy with Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal , we review high points of the IAPP Summit held in Washington DC. K attended in person and connected with individuals on their take-aways and the keynote speakers - you know, just some people like Prince Harry, Salman Rushdie, and Maya Shankar (plus others, like Serious Privacy guest Pro...

Send us Fan Mail In this slightly chaotic (and mildly censored) April Fools’ episode, hosts Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal welcome Simon Pillinger of Pillinger Privacy , also known as the first president of the People's Republic of North Oxfordshire , to discuss how humour, healthcare, and hard-won experience shape a career in data protection—and why the profession som...

Send us Fan Mail We are back again, and why so Serious? We are well into to season 7 of the Serious Privacy podcast, with dr. K Royal , Ralph O'Brien and Paul Breitbarth .  Ahead of IAPP Washington DC, we discuss the new Oklahoma SB546, the Global CBPR forum meeting in Lima Peru, regulatory capture, Trademarking your image, Delve compliance controversy and the HUGE news of court cases regardi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcas t, where hosts Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal , recovery from illness and come back strong with a cool announcement - and your regular news round up in all things Data Protection and Privacy. Latest regulatory penalties, new legislation and news from around the globe, as K and Ralph attempt the impossible - to conve...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcas t, where hosts Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal address the hot topics of the month, as we have been so full of guests that the time has flown by! Latest regulatory penalties, new legislation and news from around the globe, as K and Ralph attempt the impossible - to convey all that has occurred to you - our dear &quot...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcas t, where hosts Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal address the hot topic of data  in Elections and Democratic engagement with James Robson, former DPO of the UK's Labour Party. 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 newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcas t, where hosts Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien address the hot topics of the day with news updates across #privacy, #dataprotection, #security, #AI and #humanrights.  No K Royal, who is on a well earned vacation! EDPB, EDPS, ICO, GPA, DUAA and other strings of letters all get discussed! Lots of news, case law, regu...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcas t, where hosts Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal address the hot topic of agentic AI and the risks to #privacy, #dataprotection, #security, and #humanrights. We cover the basics as well as human attributes (or not) along with how to take the risks into consideration as a professional.  If you have com...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcas t, where hosts Paul Breitbarth  and  Dr. K Royal  discuss the privacy and data protection news of the past couple of weeks. This week, Paul rants about digital sovereignty, K discusses new American legislation, especially to protection children's data, and together they also talk about the latest WhatsApp decision fr...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcas t, where hosts Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal connect with Josh Schwartz of Phaselaw to discuss the increasing use of data subject access rights (DSARs) as a weapon. The resources required to handle such requests can be quite extensive. How do companies keep up? Maybe Josh has some insight. If you...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth , Dr. K Royal , and Ralph O'Brien meet with Tom Kemp of the California Privacy Protection Agency. We talk about the new DROP system , priorities, history, and coordination with other agencies and lawmakers. Tom was previously on Serious Privacy , before his CPPA days. If you have comments or questions, find us on L...

Send us Fan Mail We are back! Welcome to season 7 of the Serious Privacy podcast, with dr. K Royal , Ralph O'Brien and Paul Breitbarth . Also this season, we will keep you up to date of developments in the data protection and privacy community, artificial intelligence and some cybersecurity. And of course we'll bring you interviews with great guests! If you have comments or questions, fi...

Send us Fan Mail Join your hosts on this week of Serious Privacy ,  Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien , and Dr. K Royal as they close out 2025 with favorite moments and episodes, state law review, and predictions. And of course, a little bit about EU data protection. We'll be back January 28, global privacy / data protection day! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instag...