Serious Privacy

Send us Fan Mail At the end of March, Dr. K Royal started her new role with Crawford & Company , and because of that, was traveling to the company's headquarters in Atlanta (GA). That same week, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki was teaching a new data protection course with our favourite guest co-host Ralph O'Brien at Maastricht University's European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecuri...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company talk with dr. Laura Drechsler , Research Fellow at the Centre for IT and IP Law ( CITIP ) at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. They discuss Laura's work on cross-border data transfers, comparing the decisions of the European courts and the guidance of the data...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool tackle the tough topics of Ethics in data protection and privacy. This week's episode may be a little bit more philosophical than our usual ones. No big updates on what's happening in the world of privacy, but instead of conversation about ethics, what does it mean to take an et...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool bring you a recap of a very busy week in privacy. Earlier this week, we released a special episode on the UK data protection and digital information bill . But today you get the episode we actually intended for you this week, a regular weekend privacy episode, including information on the...

Send us Fan Mail On 8 March 2023, the UK Government introduced the long awaited update for the UK GDPR, now called the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill , in the House of Commons. According to the press release , British business will be able to save many billions of pounds when this bill becomes law, but not everybody agrees that is true. In this extra episode of Serious Privacy , Paul...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool have an opportunity to catch up with Emma Martins , the Data Protection Commissioner of Guernsey. Until 2018, Emma Martins served as the Information Commissioner for all Channel Islands, which also include Jersey and smaller islands like Sark and Alderney. With the entry into force of GDP...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool chat with Amy Worley , the Managing Director & Associate General Counsel at BRG on topics such as the enforcement letters sent out by the California Attorney General’s office on the do not sell / share my data requirement of the CCPA (as amended by the CPRA ). We also discuss key US S...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool discuss some of the hottest privacy news - spanning the Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal by FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson (R) who has indicated her intention to resign to the Netherlands’ outlawing social media posts to the mounting opposition to the EU-US Data Protection Framework (t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool meet with Emma Godfree part of the Data Protection & Information Governance apprenticeship program (recall Episode 26 of Season 3 with Barry Moult and Ralph O’Brien). She has been working as a data protection consultancy for 2.5 years, currently with iStorm. She also makes the amazing...

Send us Fan Mail In this season 4, second episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool meet with Carey Lening with Castlebridge , a Dublin-based data consultancy, as an outside DPO (privacat). She has over 20 years of experience assessing risks and enabling data security and data protection for companies like Facebook , Palantir , and numerous Fortune 500 c...

Send us Fan Mail In the first episode of season 4 of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool  welcome season 4 launching on Data Protection / Privacy Day 2023! From current events, to laws, to breaches, to SCCs - we probably covered it all! Paul even challenged ChatGPT to describe our season 1. The Serious Privacy podcast, by TrustArc, season 1 covered a variety...

Send us Fan Mail On the final day of 2022, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool , look back at the year 2022 - a year where a lot has happened. In the season three finale of Serious Privacy , they discuss some of the highlights of past episodes.  In 2022, Paul and K made 45 Serious Privacy episodes, this one included, bringing our total to 139. They have had 25 guests, 4 confer...

Send us Fan Mail On 13 December 2022, the European Commission published the long-awaited draft adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, among podcast listeners also known as the Thingy. In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool talk about the adequacy decision, and what they consider is missing from it.  Resources: Draft Adequacy...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool talk about health data and medical research. Paul recently attended the 10th Summit of MyData-Trust , a Belgium-based consultancy company, where he interviewed a number of people, including on the European Health Data Space . K, as a former nurse, adds her views to the conversation.  Spea...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool have a rousing good time with Glyn Moody , author of the recent book Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor . Join us for a lively conversation about copyright and mass surveillance in pursuit of copyright enforcement. As al...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal of Outschool connect with Dr. Gary Edwards , Co-founder and President of Golfdale Consulting to discuss fascinating privacy program metrics involving over 1400 respondents and more than 30 countries. The findings are pretty interesting. Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki is traveling currently and was not able to join us. As always, if you...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki (turning 40 and this is our 40th episode this season) and Dr. K Royal of Outschool discuss recent events in privacy. Join them as they touch on a recent data breach by Transunion in the US and mass public notice, passkeys vs. passwords (resource; FIDO open authentication standards), the first female president of Slov...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool change it up a little. Paul attended Privacy Space in the UK and took the opportunity to record short interviews with Richard Merrygold of iStorm , Claire Archibald with Education Data Hub ( @edudatahub ), Rowenna Fielding (@MissIGGeek) at Miss IG Geek Ltd , and Tash Whitaker , an externa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal of Outschool returns from vacation and catches up on the privacy activity with Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki . It seems like it was a quiet few weeks, but the more they talk, the more there is to catch up on. Paul and K talk about the Microsoft Digital Defense Report, posted by a colleague Victoria Beckman with Microsoft , the EU Agen...

Send us Fan Mail While Dr. K Royal of Outschool is enjoying a well deserved vacation, Ralph O’Brien is joining Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki for a Serious Privacy conversation with Chris Docksey , the honorary Director General of the EDPS. Chris is also a member of the data protection authority in Guernsey and a visiting fellow at Maastricht University.  During this episode, Ralph and Paul talk with...

Send us Fan Mail While Dr. K Royal of Outschool is enjoying a well deserved vacation, Ralph O’Brien is joining Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki for a Serious Privacy conversation with Barb Lawler , the CEO of the Information Accountability Foundation and winner of the 2022 IAPP Vanguard Award for North America . Barb has a long career in privacy and was, among other things, the first Chief Privacy Offi...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal speak with Yannick Vogel . Yannick was one of the finalists of the 6th EDPL Young Scholar Award 2022, as well as a PhD student hoping to obtain a Joint International Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology. His paper, titled “ Stretching the Limit, The Functioning of the GDPR’s Notion of Consent in the context of Dat...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool discuss the 10-7 series of deliberately machinated and long-awaited political events surrounding the EU-US data transfer mechanism that is intended to replace the Privacy Shield, invalidated under Schrems II back in 2020 - the “thingie.” Plus, the UK-US joint statement on adequacy conside...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool are headed to South America to see what is happening in privacy. With one cohost based in the United States and the other in Europe, it is no surprise that the focus of the Serious Privacy conversations is often the transatlantic relationship. Of course, data protection goes beyond the Eu...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool have a rare moment to share philosophies about privacy, with a touch on some current events. Hear what they have to say about new professionals moving in to privacy, what courses to take or skills to have, and how experienced professionals transition into privacy. It’s raw. It’s real (and...