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Send us Fan Mail We live in strange times that often remind us how important it is to live our lives in freedom and to enjoy our fundamental rights. This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal talk about the war in Ukraine, but also about a lot of data protection related developments around the world.  Topics include the new privacy law that is awaiting the Governor’s signature in Ut...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal speak with Sjoera Nas . Sjoera is a long time privacy professional and privacy activist. She became involved with digital rights in the late 1990s and early 2000s, while working for the Dutch internet service provider XS4all, and later for civil rights group Bits of Freedom. But Sjoera is probably best known for her work at...

Send us Fan Mail In this week of Serious Privacy brought to you by TrustArc , Paul Breitbarth   and K Royal share some news, discuss current events, and review both recent privacy developments and upcoming guests for the show. Topics covered include decisions involving tech companies, such as Facebook, Google, and Grindr, as well as general information on assessing risks.  Join us as we discuss pr...

Send us Fan Mail In this week of Serious Privacy by TrustArc , K Royal and Paul Breitbarth have a conversation with Anne-Charlotte Recker and Julian Deckers of the Belgian Data Protection Authority. Both work for the DPAs Litigation Chamber, which on 2 February 2022 released their long-awaited decision on the legality of the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) developed by the Interactive Adv...

Send us Fan Mail In this week of Serious Privacy by TrustArc , K Royal and Paul Breitbarth catch up with one of the oldest and most respected names in privacy, Marty Abrams , the Executive Director and Chief Strategist of the Information Accountability Foundation . Marty has 35 years of experience as an information and consumer policy innovator. Multi-stakeholder collaboration has been a key for h...

Send us Fan Mail On 28 January 1981, the Council of Europe opened up the Convention 108 , the world’s first globally binding instrument on the protection of personal data.  Since 2007, the privacy community celebrates International Data Protection Day (Data Privacy Day). For  #SeriousPrivacy, it is our season launch.  K Royal and Paul Breitbarth talk about many of the recent developments in data p...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal say goodbye to season 2 of Serious Privacy and look forward to season 3. 2021 might be a year that many of us actually would like to forget but for the privacy community, it was an exciting year and a lot of good things have happened. We have new laws, new guidance, more enforcement and court decisions, and a continuously e...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal take some time to review recent events or developments in privacy and data protection. With little happening in the U.S. (where is Ohio’s privacy law ?), the focus is more on Europe and India. K and Paul discuss the European Data Protection Board’s recent guidance on international transfers , the new decision by the Wiesbad...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal speak with Lourdes Turrecha . Where a year of five ago many companies could still run their data protection and privacy compliance programs with email, spreadsheets and word files, today’s reality is completely different. Accountability, documentation and reporting requirements are much more detailed and widespread than the...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal take to the streets, so to speak, at the IAPP global conference in Brussels . Well, Paul did and K benefitted. Join us as we hear the thoughts, predictions, and worries of fabulous privacy professionals. [Paul relayed the comments that he received - it was humbling & heartwarming, so thank you! As much as you appreciate...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth welcomes K Royal , the recently-approved PhD graduand (yes, it’s a word) fresh from her dissertation defense on Privacy Complaince in US Universities. Many of our listeners likely participated in the nearly-anonymous Delphi Method part of her research, where privacy professionals around the world answered a series of questions to deter...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal jump back across the ocean to North America. While everyone is focused on the Chinese Personal Information Protection Law that was passed on August 20 and went into effect November 1, 2021, Quebec quietly passed Bill 64 , (C-11) “An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information.”...

Send us Fan Mail What does a PhD dissertation, privacy books, the color of orange, and biometric legislation have in common? No, this is not some lame joke, but there is one of those in the episode. This week on Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth and K Royal present one of their back porch / kitchen table conversations. The episode may be slightly messy. It might be slightly longer than you are use...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal revisit the Chinese Personal Information Protection Law that goes into effect just a few days after publication of this episode. K and I spoke about this law already in episode 30 of this season, dated 31 August, as well as during our webinar on 15 September. However, questions keep flooding in, so we decided to record a fo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy , Paul Breitbarth and K Royal connect with Jocelyn Paulley , Partner at Gowling WLG in London and Lindsey Schultz , Senior Counsel at Global Privacy for Visa.  This episode is a preview of a session that Jocelyn, Lindsey, and K are presenting on along with Chris Oates , a partner at Gowling WLG in Toronto on Privacy Compliance in the AdTech Indus...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal hosted Carolin Lynch , the founder and owner of Copper Hill Strategies , has fifteen years of experience on the U.S. Capitol Hill, including a decade with the House Judiciary Committee where she served for eight years as the Chief Counsel of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations....

Send us Fan Mail This week on Serious Privacy, K Royal presents her vacation episode. You’ve had to wait for it a little while, because of all the recent news and developments, but here it is: privacy at home. K has a long conversation with her husband, Tim Foley, about how living with a privacy professional has influenced their life together, as well as the education of K’s children. Furthermore,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal discuss another fascinating privacy enhancing technology (PET) where individuals control their personal data. Yes, individuals control it. We met with Markus Lampinen , the co-founder and CEO of Prifina , which focuses on building an open data market, where individuals gain value from their data and developers get dem...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal connect with Romain Robert , is the program director and a senior lawyer for noyb , actively participating in their research and litigation strategy. Romain is also a member of the litigation chamber of the Belgian Data Protection Authority and previously worked as legal advisor for both the Belgian DPA and European Data...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal meet up with humanID , a non-profit and open source project, supported by Mozilla and Harvard University . Looking at their website, this is a great example of privacy by design and PET (privacy enhancing technology). Our guests, Bastien Purrer and Namik Muduroglu,   are working on a solution they claim offers “an ano...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal discuss the new China Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) that was adopted on 20 August. This new omnibus data protection law will enter into force on 1 November 2021, without a transition period to comply. 73 days between adoption and entry into force is a very short deadline for compliance, especially for a wide...

Send us Fan Mail Gone are the days when you had to line up at a physical store to purchase a set of disks with the latest software. Nowadays, you just go to an online app store and download what you need, or even easier: just subscribe via a website and start using the software in your computer browser: Software as a Service, or SaaS. And that is exactly what Paul and K are talking about today.  K...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of #SeriousPrivacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal discuss the summer news. From a major GDPR fine ( CNIL , WSJ , LQDN ), to a tech company planning to monitor smartphones for child pornography ( WaPo , IAPP ), and from CCPA enforcement in California to cookie consent banner complaints ( noyb ), it is all discussed during this episode.  If you want to stay up-to-date on...

Send us Fan Mail This week, #SeriousPrivacy is in summer mode, with a special episode from the borders of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Paul Breitbarth had the opportunity to speak to Massimo Marelli , Head of the Data Protection Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent (ICRC). Massimo is one of the authors of the Handbook on data protection in humanitarian action...

Send us Fan Mail On this week of #SeriousPrivacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal meet up with Tash Whitaker , who is an outsourced DPO as a service. Not all organizations have the capability to organise the DPO role in house. Maybe they are too small, or they are just lacking the right people or qualifications to take on the role. For those companies, the outsourced DPO is a great option to consider....