Serious Privacy

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth talks with Meaghan McCluskey while dr. K Royal is enjoying a well deserved vacation. They talk about Meaghan's career in privacy, that brought her from the Office of the Ontario Privacy Commissioner to Nymity and then TrustArc, where she led the research teams providing daily updates on global privacy developments. Now, Meagha...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal discuss recent developments in privacy and data protection laws around the world. They talk about the prohibition to use X in Brazil , a Spanish and a Swedish data protection fine, as well as the Global Privacy Assembly in Jersey. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy,...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss recent developments in privacy and data protection laws around the world. They talk about transferring personal data to China , artificial intelligence and of course the fine Uber received for transferring personal data to the U.S. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instag...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss recent developments in privacy and data protection laws across various regions, including legislative updates in Latin America, the Middle East, Israel, Malaysia, and the U.S. They also highlight enforcement actions in Texas against General Motors and tracking , privacy concerns around AI chatbot...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a hot week in privacy with the child safety bill which passed the US Senate ( covered wonderfully by IAPP ’s Cobun Zweifel-Keegan ), the recent US Supreme Court decision in the Netchoice case , the historical duty of care, and the Texas settlement with Meta for $1.2B for biometrics violations . But...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal hone in on cybersecurity with a robust discussion on the Crowdstrike incident , the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (#DORA), and other cyberlaw topics. We also have a little on current events. Tune in for some #livinglearninglaughing. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Insta...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a privacy mishmash - starting with the shot heard ‘round the world ( assassination attempt on Donald Trump ), followed by morality expectations of some professionals (like teachers, at least one teacher was fired for comments on the attempt ), the FTC’s actions against Calmara, #HeHealth’s controve...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a week in privacy, including election outcomes in the UK with Ralph O’Brien and France with Marie Penot . We also discuss the overturning of Chevron in the US with the recent US Supreme Court decision in Loper and the global privacy enforcement network has come out with the results of their 2024 sw...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal hosted the world’s first Field CPO, Ron deJesus . We talk about how he got into privacy, Trevor the treasure of IAPP, Ron’s field trip to talk to other CPOs, what it’s like to be a regulator vs. in-house, and so much more - including the IAPP #LGBTQ party at #PSR in September  so exciting! And what we ar...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal hosted Vermont Rep. Monique Priestley (D) , one of the sponsors of the Vermont Data Privacy Act , which passed the VT legislature on May 11 only to be vetoed by Gov. Phil Scott (R) and faced a tight override effort . Today she’ll discuss the drivers behind the bill, touted as a truly different bill for t...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss APRA resuscitation , #elections and #AI and #sensitive political data , NY Child’s Code , the CA and French MOU , the Norwegian DPA being forbidden to impose daily sanctions on Meta by the Privacy Board , government surveillance drama (criticized by Signal ), and even a little SpongeBob . And con...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a couple of weeks in privacy. Topics include the Vermont Privacy Act veto heard around the world, updates in the European Parliament , the Digital Advertising Alliance webchoices 2.0 , a joint investigation by the UK and Canada into the 23andMe breach , Clearview AI’s settlement proposal , n oyb’s...

Send us Fan Mail This week Paul and K  are both travelling, so the recording was slightly more complex then usual. While K was in Arizone for the State Bar of Arizona 2024 Convention , Paul was in London for the inaugural edition of Legal Tech Talk . We bring you the highlights of both events, as well as some headlines of what has been happening in the world of privacy and data protection this wee...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a couple of weeks in privacy - on the scary side. Topics include updates on the global CBPRs and PRPs, NOYB launched a complaint against open AI with the austrian data protection authority and 11 complaints against META , Italy reinstates chatGPT , the EDPB chatGPT task force report ,  a lawsuit ag...

Send us Fan Mail In this 200th episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal (our views are our own and do not reflect the views of our employers) are joined by honorary co-host Ralph O'Brien , as well as Marie Penot to celebrate 4,5 years of podcasting. The four look back on what surprised and disappointed them these past year, but also talk about some current developments, in...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal (our views are our own and do not reflect the views of our employers) connect with Irith Kist , the Data Protection Officer at the Netherlands Cancer Institute , also a member of the Data Protection Advisory Commission of the City of Amsterdam. However, she is also a health data researcher herself, and o...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss a holy week in privacy where the V’s took front page - the Vatican issued a privacy decree and Vermont is trying to pass a strong privacy law and a coalition of state Attorneys General signed a letter imploring Congress not to preempt their privacy laws . In addition, CO AI bill is in front of th...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss a hot week in privacy! Topics include the amendment of Colorado’s privacy act to include protecting children , CT’s AI bill did not pass , but the TikTok bill was rolled not a foreign aid bill . ByteDance is ordered to divest themselves of TikTok by January 19, 2025 with the allowance for a 90 da...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of discuss a fundamental part of a successful privacy / data protection program - data inventories or mapping - records of processing activities. We also switched it up on you a little... Paul asks his very first unexpected question. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @s...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company had a few major developments to discuss, such as the ban or forced sale of TikTok ( which was signed as we were talking ), the EDPB opinion on Meta’s consent or pay model , a final rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights on privacy...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company connect after the IAPP #GPS24 to discuss the US privacy bill being proposed - the American Privacy Rights Act. Join us as we discuss pros and cons along with a little news on # TikTok ban (or not) . Good resources on #APRA found at IAPP cheatsheet and here with a section-by-sect...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal catches up with Val Ilchenko , General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer of TrustArc. K and Val are both at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Dc and were able to catch up for a great conversation on how to design privacy software for both experienced privacy professionals and those who just need to take the first step. We also discusse...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company dive deep into the topic of location data, which is considered sensitive personal data and is often not disclosed in many apps. We talk about geopositioning satellites , a journalist investigation into the Polar's fitness app , transparency reports on responses to governmen...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company connect on some seriously sexy privacy topics - namely TCF with the recent decision against IAB and the European AI Act , including the exciting new Nymity AI Beta testing .  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky und...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company host Alan Chapell of Chapell and Associates . Alan serves as outside counsel and chief privacy officer to digital media companies, and since 2003, has advised well over two hundred different companies. He has his own consultancy, his own newsletter, the Chapell Report, and is al...