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Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal connects with Tash Whitaker to cover all things top of mind in data protection. Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien were out, so Tash and K hit the microphone unfettered! Join us as we discuss DSARs, AI, and more - in the run up to the Privacy Space in London in less than a month away. If you have comments or questions, find us on L...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , hosts Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O'Brien , and Dr. K Royal bring you a full week in privacy and data protection featuring new laws, new decisions, and new enforcement. We span from Pay to Play, to children's privacy, to California's Frontie AI - tune in... it's a hot one! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn a...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , talk about the UK's plans to introduce a mandatory digital identity card. This is not the first time a proposal for mandatory ID has come up in the UK, and Ralph has thoughts about it. Paul on the other hand is a little surprised about the uproar, since mandatory ID has been introduced in...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal speak with  Paul Iagnocco , Head of Customer Enablement at our sponsor TrustArc. Apart from catching up, the team speaks with our guest about the development and maintenance of data protection compliance programs, especially in this time where AI is becoming more and more impor...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth brings us news from the Global Privacy Assembly held in Korea and Dr. K Royal has fun with privacy trivia! Ralph O'Brien is out this week. Open offer to all fans... if you answered all the questions correctly, send oneof us your address and we will send you a sticker for playing Trivacy! If you have comments or questions, f...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Ralph O'Brien of Reinbo Consulting and Dr. K Royal (Paul Breitbarth is travelling) discuss current events in privacy, data protection, and cyber law. Fascinating episode with all the hot stories which seem to follow a theme - adequacy and child online safety, plus some enforcements. Coverage includes the decision on the European Court's...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , while both Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien of Reinbo Consulting are out, Dr. K Royal connects with Jordan Hall, a DPO based in the UK. Discussion centers around scope of DPO, where the field has developed, and thoughts on current events. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of seriousprivacy, Paul Breitbarth is away, so Ralph O’ Brien and Dr. K Royal bring you a mish mash week in privacy. Topics include current news and a little bit about the differences in GDPR compliance vs what the US privacy laws require.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu,...

Send us Fan Mail Back to the week of news! On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal discuss the topics of the week, Age Verification, Technical controls vs Educational controls, Freedom of speech and censorship, Greek, Italian and ICO enforcement, and yet more data breaches! Sources: https://spectrum.ieee.org/online-safety-kids-ieee-s...

Send us Fan Mail While we generally don't shy away from politics when it comes to data protection and privacy rights, the conflict in Gaza is not a topic that we would quickly raise on the podcast. Unless data protection plays a role, which it now does. On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal enter a dimension not seen before on...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal talk about a slew of breaches and what to do if your data is breached. 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.seriouspri...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers a week in privacy which feels light and refreshing. Listen to co-hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal. Topics include an emergency ban in Italy about publishing images about an autopsy, Germany's actions involving Meta, Poland's enforcement on a McDonald's data breach, UK's collaboration with OpenAI, UK's enforceme...

Send us Fan Mail With Dr. K Royal off to Vegas, this week it's Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting catching up for the Serious Privacy podcast on all of the news. Two big topics this week: the hidden-until-now data breach of the UK ministry of Defence in Afghanistan and the mess that was the WeTransfer terms update ( official blog post , Paul's Linkedin post ). The guy...

Send us Fan Mail With Paul away, Join K and Ralph on a riotous discussion of personal integrity and what positions we can work with and for - with regulators and industry cross pollinating individuals and resources.  Can regulators remain ethical and independent, when we rely on skills and abilities for industry? Also, a week of news in Privacy and Data Protection with a round up of EU, UK, US and...

Send us Fan Mail Please join us for our 250th episode, celebrating 5 and a half years of privacy, data protection, cyber law education and hot topics with hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal. 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...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal connect with the Honorable Monique Priestley, Vermont Representative (website https://moniqueforvermont.com/). The topic - the Age Appropriate Design Code Act (VAADCA) just passed! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europa...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal connect on a week in privacy - almost too much to cover, so it’s a little long. Mainly we talk about the UK Data Use and Access Bill , the third extension of TikTok’s required sale , Meta deploying ads to Whatsapp , and noyb suing two data protection authorities over delayed in...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a while since we last talked about cross-border data transfers, but that does not mean that all issues have resolved themselves. And while the focus may still largely be on the EU-US relations for data transfers, the core developments actually relate to the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules .  Therefore, on this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Br...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth is away so Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal   bring you a full docket of privacy news. And it is a doozy of a week!  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 On this week of #SeriousPrivacy, Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O'Brien catch up on recent activity in the world of purveyors,  data protection, and cyber law.  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.seriouspriv...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privavy, Paul, Ralph, and Dr. K catch up with Akhi Srivastava, an experienced tech leader to discuss strategy and state of the digital world (as himself and not as any of the company's he's worked for then it now). If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europa...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , and Dr. K Royal ( Ralph O’Brien was traveling), we cover a wild wrap up of privacy activities, including Tom Kemp as the newly appointed head of the California Consumer Privacy Protection Agency, and a wide sweep of enforcement actions including Roku , Honda Motor Company, National Public Data, Tom Snyder , plus class actions aga...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of @SeriousPrivacy, hosts Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal (Ralph wasn'  able to join us in DC) catch up with Tahu Kukutai , Professor, The University of Waikato; Jade Makory , CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP , Legal and Advocacy Director, Data Analytics Kenya, and Privacy Expert, PwC (on Sabbatical); and Shana Morgan , AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP , Global Head of AI / Pri...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy ,  Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal connect to cover a week in privacy as Paul Breitbarth is away. This weeks shorter episode includes a guide to what’s coming up from Serious Privacy at IAPP summit in DC, a penalty from the UK ICO, EDPB draft Guidance on blockchain, state laws, enforcement actions, and more! Please subscribe in...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth , Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting , and Dr. K Royal have a short week in privacy (a lot about #Meta and children using #AI) along with some updates on the IAPP #GPS25 where we learned that it was all about the people, such as our friends at TrustArc , Ben Siegal, Dan Solove, and so many others. Please subscribe in your favorite...