Serious Privacy

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...

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...