Serious Privacy

Send us Fan Mail On this week of #SeriousPrivacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal discuss the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation , because three years ago from the day this episode was released (May 25, 2021), the GDPR went into effect.   And whether you consider it three years or or five ( per this Twitter debate ), it was a world-changing event.  In this episode, they talk about the...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of #SeriousPrivacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal connect with Ray Everett , Founding Member & Chief Privacy Intelligence Officer at Data Secrets , a company that develops solutions focused on identifying risk wherever applications are accessing your data -- in the public cloud, in SaaS applications, and on-premise. He has a long history working as a privacy profess...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breibarth and K Royal connect with the Global Privacy Officer at GameStop , Seán Dunne . He really knows the company well, given that he started in retail operations almost 12 years ago. Now, he is responsible for global data protection compliance with laws ranging from the familiar GDPR and CCPA , to the less well known Canadian anti-spam...

Send us Fan Mail Every year, in the final week of January, privacy professionals from around the world assemble in the north of Brussels for the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference . In recent years, on the final day, the European Data Protection Law Review awards a young scholar award and hosts a panel to discuss the nominated papers.  In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breiba...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breibarth and K Royal tackle the slew of development (or non-developments) in privacy around the world. What a week in privacy! We had the proposal for AI Regulation published in the EU , the UK adequacy opinion, and of course, several privacy bills in states around the US, and the United States Supreme Court decision in AMG Capital Managem...

Send us Fan Mail Every year, in the final week of January, privacy professionals from around the world assemble in the north of Brussels for the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference . In recent years, on the final day, the European Data Protection Law Review awards a young scholar award and hosts a panel to discuss the nominated papers.  In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breiba...

Send us Fan Mail Every year, in the final week of January, privacy professionals from around the world assemble in the north of Brussels for the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference . In recent years, on the final day, the European Data Protection Law Review awards a young scholar award and hosts a panel to discuss the nominated papers.  In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breiba...

Send us Fan Mail Demonstrating compliance is certainly not always easy, but under many laws, including the GDPR, it is a mandatory requirement. To facilitate the process, codes of conduct and certification schemes are becoming more popular, and it is no wonder they have been included in the GDPR as well. As we are on the verge of seeing the first codes of conduct to demonstrate GDPR compliance app...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal , connect with Wayne Unger , a recent law school graduate, that is already very much embedded in the privacy profession. As a non-traditional student, Wayne was an experienced professional and quickly dove into the academic side of privacy with the intent to combine the scholarship and practical side of privacy.  Wayne has...

Send us Fan Mail Developments in privacy sometimes go so quickly, it is almost impossible to keep up. In this episode of Serious Privacy, K Royal and Paul Breitbarth , talk about many of these recent developments in order to bring you up to date again.  Join us as we discuss the forthcoming stricter enforcement of cookie rules in France, a German court case prohibiting nudging end users towards ac...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, K Royal and Paul Breitbarth host the new and first Chief Innovation Officer of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the US, Sultan Meghji . Sultan has a rich history as co-founder of Neocova which specializes in AI software for financial institutions, an adjunct professor at Washington University’s Olin Business School , a scholar...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, K Royal and Paul Breitbarth connect with Steven (Seven) Waterhouse, PhD , CEO and founder of Orchid , a crypto powered VPN. Given his expertise and how it is harnessed for Orchid, we felt Seven would have quite a bit of technical insight into technologies commonly discussed in conjunction with data protection. He did not disappoint.  In this epi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, K Royal and Paul Breitbarth connect with Shoshana Rosenberg , Deputy General Counsel for Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Strategy, as well as CPO and Vice President at WSP USA . However, our conversation is more around the focus of SafePorter , a data trust providing valuable business insights, while respecting the privacy of employees.  In esse...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, K Royal and Paul Breitbarth provide an update on recent happenings in both Europe and the US, some of which are surprising and the other makes no waves across the ocean. First, an unexpected agreement on the ePrivacy Regulation by the EU Members States. This does not mean that the regulation is passed - on the contrary, the Parliament and the Eu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, K Royal is joined by guest co-host Ralph O’Brien to speak about what one privacy professional did with his free time over the pandemic. Most of us may have started a new hobby - so did Jeff Jockisch , founder and CEO of PrivacyPlan . First, he achieved his Certified Information Privacy Professional for US privacy law from the International Assoc...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, K Royal is joined by guest co-host Ralph O’Brien , who brings that United Kingdom perspective to data protection. As a well-known and respected privacy professional, Ralph took the opportunity to discuss some of the current hot topics in privacy with K, such as the impact of # Brexit on managing privacy programs in Europe .  Join us as we discus...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Data Protection Day ! Paul Breitbarth and K Royal kick off Season 2 of the Serious Privacy podcast with a special guest, Helen Dixon , Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland . She is probably one of the best known data protection regulators around the world, with her office having the duty to supervise most major tech companies doing business in Europe. That comes with a l...

Send us Fan Mail We look back to January 2020 - with no crystal ball for Serious Privacy with Paul Breitbarth and K Royal .  With 47 episodes and over 25,000 downloads,  Season 1 of Serious Privacy is complete. Thank you to our fans! Season 2 starts Global Privacy Day 2021. Our initial ideas were a little different , but K and Paul found their rhythm and a following. Join us as we look back, play...

Send us Fan Mail On 17 November 2020, the Canadian Minister of Information Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains, introduced bill C-11, the long-awaited update to the federal Canadian privacy legislation. For many years, this legislative update had been rumoured, and now that it was finally put on the table, we can see some sweeping changes. The Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020,...

Send us Fan Mail Since the Schrems-II judgment came down on July 16th, the message has slowly sunk in that Europe is serious about looking at privacy and data protection through the glasses of fundamental rights protection. That was even reinforced by the Privacy International and Quadrature du Net cases , published at the start of October. Any interference with the fundamental rights to privacy a...

Send us Fan Mail Technology brings new demands for compliance, especially given the amount of personal data collected through various means and how it is both used and combined. However, technology can also be used to assist compliance professionals by providing the necessary information quickly.  In most of the Serious Privacy  episodes, co-hosts Paul Breibarth and K Royal have discussed one or m...

Send us Fan Mail Live! (okay recorded with a live studio audience) from our offices at a fabulous virtual conference - the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society , discussing Public Interest Technologies in a four day long global online conference. This is a first for Serious Privacy, recording an episode live as part of the conference presentation. In normal times, this confe...

Send us Fan Mail In just a single week, so much has happened. The California Privacy Rights Act was passed by voters and will come into effect on 1 January 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union once again confirmed that consent is not valid when relying upon pre-ticked boxes, and the European Data Protection Board issued its Recommendations on international data transfers in the wake of...

Send us Fan Mail This past week, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted it’s Recommendations on international data transfers post Schrems-II and the European Commission released the long-awaited draft of new standard contractual clauses . At the same time, the EDPB adopted an updated version of their earlier guidelines on the European Essential Guarantees : criteria that a third country...

Send us Fan Mail Privacy and data protection are not just a job for lawyers or professionals who specialize in privacy - not anymore. Technology plays an important role in ensuring personal data can remain private. Ensuring that personal data is secure but useful requires a level of skill found in data scientists. In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth and K Royal searched for just s...