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Send us Fan Mail On 26 September 2023, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal recorded the first ever Serious Privacy Live, during the Nordic Privacy Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. In the past eight years, the NPA, organised by the Swedish Data Protection Forum , has become a staple on the European conference calendar. The podcast was the opening of the second conference day, with the request to...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal talk about children's data, following the recent decision of the Irish Data Protection Commission in the TikTok case . Apart from a fine of 345 million Euro, the authority also ordered TikTok to change some of their policies, especially where children are concerned. Reason enough for us to dive a...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss privacy class action lawsuits featuring articles and information from Law.com with Richard Sheinis of Hall Booth Smith and Lisa Jaffee of Hiscox Insurance on Law.com about the class action “kill chain, ” and one from Miller Nash by Brian Esler and Eva Novik on the new wave of class action laws...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss a lot of events in a long week of privacy as they lead up to attending the Nordic Privacy Arena , including The Norwegian Data Protection Authority ordering Meta to stop personalized advertising , Fairplay and the Center for Digital Democracy ( calling for investigation related to Google ads and...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss the newly passed Digital Personal Data Act in India with Malavika Raghavan , PhD candidate in Information Systems and Innovation at the London School of Economics and Senior Fellow for India at the Future of Privacy Forum. Malavika is a lawyer with a background in policy-focused research, studyin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Ralph O’Brien (together in a long time) to discuss some of the data breaches happening in the UK, such as a breach of the electoral records and police officers in Northern Ireland , historical breach statistics , and more. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagr...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal share a healthy serving of privacy popcorn featuring India’s new law , Georgia's new law , Meta news, Argentina and Kenya and Worldcoin , China, NIST Cybersecurity Framework call for comment s, and more, including California's adequacy decision from the Dubai International Financial Center....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , powered by TrustArc , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal sum up recent developments in privacy, including Meta's intent to change its legal basis and offer Europeans a choice , a notable breach in the United Kingdom involving a former politician Nigel Farage and a CEO resigning due to a breach , a TikTok decision about its practic...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal tackle a topic that much trigger strong reactions, Child Sexual Abuse Materials or CSAM. Our guests today have worked a lot on this topic. Dr Teresa Quintel is attached to Maastricht University and mainly works on issues related to data protection in the law enforcement sector. Alexander Hanff is a long-t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Tom Kemp , a Silicon Valley based author, entrepreneur, investor, and policy advisor. He founded a cybersecurity cloud provider and was one of the drivers behind the campaign to adopt the CPRA in California. And now he has written a book containing big tech that is out later this summer....

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna , vice president for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum , and Romain Robert , Program Director and lawyer at NOYB to discuss the new landmark decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union : Meta v Bundeskartellamt , where the Court not only decided...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and  Dr. K Royal catch up on a busy 48 hours in the world of privacy and data protection. Their conversation goes from a new landmark decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union to updates on the Thingy to new FTC nominations to a proposed EU law on the cooperation between data protection authorities. They...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy ,  Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and  Dr. K Royal take you on a fast-paced global tour for privacy developments, including Oregon sending a privacy bill to the governor , Texas passing a privacy law , Connecticut enhancing its privacy law , Apple’s announcement on Child Sexual Abuse Materia l,  the parliamentary monsoon session in India , and two i...

Send us Fan Mail While Dr. K Royal is traveling, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki turns our attention to the Middle East for this episode of Serious Privacy . He speaks with Lori Baker , the Vice President Legal & Director of Data Protection for the DIFC Commissioner’s Office. The DIFC - the Dubai International Financial Center - has a special status in the United Arab Emirates and therefore also t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and  Dr. K Royal discuss all things #AI - or at least all the basics, in light of the EU Parliament passing the #AIAct last week. In addition, the US has active measures evaluating AI (such as appointing VP Kamala Harris as AI Czar , US National AI initiative ), the # OECD efforts , and various uses of AI, e.g., Leth...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal  connects with R. Jason Cronk , infamous privacy professional extraordinaire. Topics include a brief weekly update on privacy events, The Rise of Privacy Tech ( TROPT) and its summit , led by Lourdes Turrecha , privacy frameworks, such as NIST privacy and 800-53 , ISO27001 , appendix A , ISO 27701 , his new podcast with the BBB , pr...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford and Company tackle the tough topic of vendor management. As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn , Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy  and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other p...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal joins with co-host Ralph O’Brien , while Paul Brietbarth of Catawiki is off conferencing, to discuss recent developments in privacy. Tune in to catch us discuss the Meta penalty from the Irish Data Protection Commission , the IAB Trust and Consent Framework 2.0 (in its continuing saga with the Belgian DPA ), and concepts of controll...

Send us Fan Mail It's travel time again, so Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal just chat among themselves about some developments in the world of privacy and data protection. They look ahead at the Meta fine that was supposed to be coming shortly (and has now been announced: $1.2 billion in fines and a serious compliance order - more here ), you'll get an update on the U.S. stat...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of # Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal turn their attention to #Mexico and the wider Latin American data protection developments. Their guest is Dr. Jonathan Mendoza , the Secretary of Personal Data Protection at the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information, and Personal Data Protection .  #INAI is the federal data prote...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal have an opportunity to catch up on a week on privacy.  As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn , Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals ca...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Mike Hintze of Hintze Law to discuss the newly enacted Washington My Health, My Data law . Passed by both houses quickly, but not unanimously, this new law has taken the US privacy law world by storm. Join us to discover the strengths and concerns around this act - and what your business...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal celebrate the 150th episode of Serious Privacy.  To celebrate this milestone, we have invited a special guest to join us this week: Wojciech Wiewiorowski , the European Data Protection Supervisor . Before that, Wojciech was the chair of the Polish DPA . He has a long background working on privacy, dat...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company connected with two key individuals at Europol :  Daniel Drewer who is the head of Europol's data protection office and Jan Ellerman , one of the senior experts. Europol isn’t quite the way it is portrayed in the movies, so tune in for the real story. You can probably ima...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company capture key moments of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit #GPS23.  We chatted with privacy friends and those who shared breakfast or lunch with us - an audience participation table! Join us as we connect with Kelli Lu, Maggie G...