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Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company is joined by our featured guest-host Ralph O’Brien on location at the IAPP UK Intensive in London .  Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki is traveling. Ralph and K were able to catch up with some amazing privacy all-stars starting with Robert Bateman , quickly followed by Marie Penot , Joe Jones , John Bowman of IBM no...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company catch up on a week of privacy news, ranging from the legislative debate on Coppa 2.0 , the EDPB Opinion limiting the impact of the One Stop Shop , the Lockbit take down by the FBI and European police authorities, the preparations for the Olympic Games in Paris and the Right to b...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company connect with Rie Aleksandra Walle . The original grumpyGDPR podcaster, to discuss current events and the DPO Hub . Join us for a rousing great conversation about the EU, Irish DPC, the most challenging part of compliance for companies, and so much more… If you have comments or q...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company examine profiling in all its contexts and glory. Join us for a lively conversation. 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 @igrobrie...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with authors Dr. Valerie Lyons and Todd Fitzgerald . At the end of last year, a new manual for chief privacy officers and data protection officers, and anyone with a similar job title or interest, was released: the Privacy Leader Compass. Following a similar manual for CISOs, this book provides a...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company kick off Season 5 with a Bang! As usual, we launch the new season on Data Privacy - Data Protection Day and what a year we’ve had so far! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.ser...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal and Ralph O’Brien bring you the final episode - chock full of privacy goodness: episode 183 of Serious Privacy. And what a year it has been.  With over 44,000 downloads just this season, this was our most successful year to date. We missed top 10% on #Buzzsprout by about 5 downloads a week - so share and...

Send us Fan Mail You have been promised this episode for months, but finally at the end of the year, on this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal give you an overview of the U.S. State Law developments in 2023. What are the most important parts to understand State consumer privacy laws and how do you comply with them? Luckily, Paul and K don’t have to do this all b...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal bring you a week in privacy, covering women in privacy like Liz Denham , Annelies Moens , Ludmila Morozova-Boss and others, OpenAI , Meta and noyb , holiday scams , new legislation, and even book reviews, Ready Player 1 and Your Face Belongs to U s from Kashmir Hill . Tune in for some fun. If you have co...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Liz Denham , who was appointed to the Jersey Data Protection Authority and is also the new Chief Strategist at the Information Accountability Foundation . Liz has quite the extensive career in privacy leadership and discusses developments in the field with Paul. This one also features some i...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal bring you a different format, comprising separate updates along with Paul’s conversation with Amit Ghadia , a lawyer and a certified Global Data Protection Officer and trainer based in Nairobi with an office in Oxford, UK.  If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriouspriv...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Tobias Judin , the Head of the International Section at the Norwegian DPA and Co-Chair of the International Enforcement Working Group of the Global Privacy Assembly . Tobias has a background in law and informatics, which lends itself well to the recent investigations and actions by the Norwe...

Send us Fan Mail Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Woodrow Hartzog , Professor of Law at the Boston University School of Law . He also has some other academic roles, including at Washington University , Harvard and Stanford . His research focuses on privacy, media, and technology. Recently, professor Hartzog testified before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate in a he...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal catch up on the data protection news from the past month, ranging from the annual Global Privacy Assembly, an ICO investigation into Snap and CSAM to digital ID cards, and much more. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy...

Send us Fan Mail Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal bring you part III of the Nordic Privacy Arena. Odia Kagan is Partner and Chair of GDPR Compliance and International Privacy at Fox Rothschild LLP. You may very well know her from her LinkedIn posts, where she summarises data protection related news developments for a large audience, a little bit like we would do during a week in privacy episode. Od...

Send us Fan Mail The episode we released earlier this week missed a segment, that somehow disappeared in the final edit. The full episode is online now, but in case you have already listened, we also offer you the Allan Frank interview as a separate download. Enjoy the listen! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy...

Send us Fan Mail On 26 and 27 September 2023, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal attended for their first live podcast recording. But of course that was not the only recording they made during the Nordic Privacy Arena 2023. During the breaks and after the conference, K and Paul also interviewed some people, and those interviews you hear today. First up is Allan Frank , IT security special...

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...