The Privacy Beat

Reporting on a specific industry gives journalists unique views on the inside baseball and its players. In this free-ranging conversation, host Angelique Carson talks to longtime privacy journalist Mike Swift about the ADPPA, the Biden administration’s aims on consumer privacy in the U.S., and who’s gonna own the data in the end: the companies or the consumers?

Of late, there’s plenty of movement on children's privacy law. You’ve got codes of conduct in the U.K. and California, plus two federal bills headed for U.S. Senate votes that would update COPPA and regulate "addictive" services geared toward kids. The Future of Privacy Forum’s Lauren Merk, U.S. youth and education policy counsel, lives and breathes this stuff, here's what you should know.

By now it’s not really a secret that privacy’s got a hiring problem. Recruiters and managers want “years” of GDPR experience, but then complain they can’t find “qualified” candidates. Meanwhile, talented peeps are searching for gigs. So what’s the deal? In this podcast, Angelique Carson talks to Asana’s Sherry Truong, VF Corporation’s Ryan Torrey, and Cleo Li about what hiring managers are missing...

Privacy Twitter basically exploded upon the announcement of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act. Maybe Congress has finally found a middle ground? In this episode of The Privacy Beat Podcast, host Angelique Carson chats with Cam Kerry of the Brookings Institution, Omer Tene of Goodwin Proctor, and Maneesha Mithal of Wilson Sonsini about why it feels like Rs and Ds went to couple’s therapy...

June 24 changed our lives. The Supreme Court’s “Dobb’s decision” overturned Roe v. Wade, stating women no longer have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. In this episode, Twilio’s Hannah Poteat, Quora’s Lena Ghamrawi , and Asana’s Whitney Merrill discuss what this means for women and what we, as privacy professionals, can and should do to stop the erosion of human rights in the U.S...

In this episode of The Privacy Beat, host Angelique Carson chats with fans Nick Ginger and Sheri Porath Rockwell, privacy attorneys in California. The three discuss this week’s hearing on federal privacy legislation and what to make of these new draft regulations on the California Privacy Rights Act.

In this inaugural episode of The Privacy Beat, host Angelique Carson invites two of her privacy besties, Cobun Zweifel-Keegan and Gabriel Maldoff, to help explain this new podcast and what it aims to do. In a whimsical conversation between friends, the three play with potential names for the show and, later, find themselves dissecting Web 3.0.