Serious Privacy

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool catch up on a slow week in privacy. We do touch on some meaty topics that are usually overlooked, such as a CISO going into trial on personal liability for a data breach (or rather the non-disclosure of a data breach), the American Data Protection and Privacy Act’s (ADPPA’s) future, with...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool catch up on a week in privacy. This week is all about the C’s - COPPA , code, California, Cuba, Colombia, cars, consultations, and more. We talk about the new age appropriate design code bill that is before the CA governor for signature. It is expected to pass in spite of the opposition a...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool connect with perhaps a controversial player in the privacy game, Gal Ringel , Founder and CEO of Mine . (on Twitter @MineApp and @GalRingel) You might recognize the name from a slew of individual rights requests. We agree that everyone should be able to understand what personal data organ...

Send us Fan Mail What do you get when you put three privacy podcasts on together? A rocking great time! Two women, three men. Five personalities. fifteen opinions! "Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!" If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky....

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Dr. K Royal of Outschool and Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki , brought to you by TrustArc , connect after Paul’s vacation to catch up on what is happening in the privacy world.  And there are updates to be had! They discuss Turkey, India, and the US along with recent decisions, such as Criteo . Along the way, they touch on privacy notices, the “thingi...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , co-host Ralph O’Brien joins Dr. K Royal of Outschool while Paul Breitbarth is on vacation for the last of his 3 weeks. This week, Dr. K and Ralph chat with Barry Moult , Director at BJM IG Privacy Ltd . Barry is well known in the data protection industry, especially in the UK, where he has been recognized for his tremendous work and efforts. His a...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , co-host Ralph O’Brien joins Dr. K Royal of Outschool while Paul Breitbarth is on vacation for 3 weeks. This week, Dr. K and Ralph discuss certifications and the role of the DPO. Specifically, Ralph is a trainer for IAPP certification exams and we have had quite a few questions on certification exams and credentials.  Key links: IAPP certification...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , co-host Ralph O’Brien joins Dr. K Royal of Outschool while Paul Breitbarth is on vacation for 3 weeks. This week, Dr. K and Ralph discuss current events in the United Kingdom, namely the prime minister elections and the proposed Data Protection and Digital Information bill . This bill seeks to “clarify” some aspects of data protection law in the U...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool connect with Lauren Reid , a privacy and digital ethics consultant and president of The Privacy Pro in Toronto.  Listen as Paul and Dr. K connect on all things current in Canada, especially related to C27 , the newest proposal to update PIPEDA  - following up from C11 , which failed to pass...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool have a robust conversation with W. Curtis Preston , (on Twitter as W. Curtis Preston ), the Chief Technical Evangelist with Druva, Inc. . In this conversation, Mr. Backup himself, explains the difference between backups and archives, reminiscences about tape backups, and provides insight on...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool includes Eric Rind , CEO and founder of ImagineBC . Eric is a former HR consultant, turned tech entrepreneur. Who's trying to build a digital community to allow people to monetize their personal information. Every once in a while you hear a blockchain application that still spikes an in...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool we go back to China discussing the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). You will actually be listening to the audio of a recent webinar organised by TrustArc, which they hosted together with former colleague Yi Lu.  PIPL applies to all organisations doing business in China or targetin...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool meet to discuss some recent events in the privacy and data protection world, such as the proposed American Data Protection and Privacy Act, as the hearings, featuring comments presented from Caitriona Fitzgerald, Deputy Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC); David Brod...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool is a little different than the norm as the IAPP hosted its first Data Protection Intensive: Nederland 2022 .  Although K could not attend, she and Paul discussed a couple of substantive questions he could ask to [unsuspecting] participants. And those interviewees were quite knowledgeable.  T...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool connect with Paolo Balboni , who is attached to Maastricht University ’s European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity as Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law. Last March, researchers at Maastricht University published the first-ever complete Corporate Social Responsibilit...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , recorded on the anniversary of the GDPR ( watch the recent webinar ), Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool catch up on the past week or so in privacy.  What exciting things - or not so exciting things have happened. Most seem to be in the area of cross-border transfers.  Join us as we discuss some history with the GDPR, with...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool take some time to review recent events in the privacy / data protection world. This week, this means they cover the Connecticut Act concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act - the PDPOM… Paul has a cool name for it. Connecticut’s act passed on May 10, 2022 and takes effect...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool take some time to review recent events in the privacy / data protection world. This week, this means they cover the Connecticut Act concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act - the PDPOM… Paul has a cool name for it. Connecticut’s act passed on May 10, 2022 and takes effect...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth   and Dr. K Royal connect with Victoria Beckman , the lead over Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit for the Americas and an award-winning woman in cybersecurity. Victoria is a former law student of K’s at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and they both wound up in privacy-related fields. Of course, Vict...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth introduces an episode where Dr. K Royal caught up with several individuals at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit held in Washington DC at the Marriott Marquis . It was a truly wonderful event, the first Global privacy Summit since 2019, with thousands of privacy professionals in attendance. Attendees included professionals from all o...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Serious Privacy, sponsored by TrustArc , heads south to Africa. Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool chat with Teki Akuetteh , the first Executive Director of the Ghana Data Protection Authority and current Chair of the Africa Digital Rights Hub .  The conversation covered quite a bit of ground, starting with how privacy has developed in Africa,...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy, sponsored by TrustArc , Paul Breitbarth and K Royal some with Angelique Carson . Angelique is currently with TerraTrue but Paul and K know her best from when she was with the IAPP , International Association of Privacy Professionals. Angelique had launched the IAPP's podcast years ago,  where K was one the very first guests . The conversati...

Send us Fan Mail In the 100th episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal connect with two of the biggest names in the privacy field, Chris Babel , the CEO of TrustArc and Hilary Wandall , Chief Compliance Officer at Dun and Bradstreet. Both Chris and Hilary were instrumental in launching Serious Privacy and critical to its success. In this completely unscripted and candid conversa...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool review what might seem to be small events in privacy developments, but are really robust once reviewed. They touch on a spotify case in Barcelona , the Spanish Data Protection Commissioner search on hold, and events in Belgium. In addition, on the US side, a DC judge ruled that Mark Zucke...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal catch up with the renowned Kirk Nahra , co-chair of both the Big Data Practice and the Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice for WilmerHale . K and Kirk have known each other for years - mostly related to US healthcare law, long before Kirk won the IAPP Vanguard Award in 2021 . They discuss the US Health Insurance Portab...