The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast

This week I welcome Dr. Andrew Clark , Co-founder & CTO of Monitaur, a trusted domain expert on the topic of machine learning, auditing and assurance; and Sid Mangalik , Research Scientist at Monitaur and PhD student at Stony Brook University. I discovered Andrew and Sid's new podcast show, The AI Fundamentalists Podcast . I very much enjoyed their lively episode on Synthetic Data & A...

This week, I welcome Jutta Williams , Head of Privacy & Assurance at Reddit, Co-founder of Humane Intelligence and BiasBounty.ai, Privacy & Responsible AI Evangelist, and Startup Board Advisor. With a long history of accomplishments in privacy engineering, Jutta has a unique perspective on the growing field. In our conversation, we discuss her transition from security engineering to privac...

Today, I welcome Victor Morel, PhD and Simone Fischer-Hübner, PhD to discuss their recent paper, "Automating Privacy Decisions – where to draw the line?" and their proposed classification scheme. We dive into the complexity of automating privacy decisions and emphasize the importance of maintaining both compliance and usability (e.g., via user control and informed consent). Simone is a P...

This week, I welcome philosopher, author, & AI ethics expert, Reid Blackman, Ph. D. , to discuss Ethical AI. Reid authored the book, "Ethical Machines," and is the CEO & Founder of Virtue Consultants , a digital ethical risk consultancy. His extensive background in philosophy & ethics, coupled with his engagement with orgs like AWS, U.S. Bank, the FBI, & NASA, offers a un...

This week, we're chatting with Engin Bozdag , Senior Staff Privacy Architect at Uber , and Stefano Bennati , Privacy Engineer at HERE Technologies . Today, we explore their recent IWPE'23 talk, "Can Location Data Truly be Anonymized: a risk-based approach to location data anonymization" and discuss the technical & business challenges to obtain anonymization. We also discuss...

This week’s guest is Elias Grünewald , Privacy Engineering Research Associate at Technical University, Berlin , where he focuses on cloud-native privacy engineering, transparency, accountability, distributed systems, & privacy regulation.  In this conversation, we discuss the challenge of designing privacy into modern cloud architectures; how shifting left into DevPrivOps can embed privacy wit...

This week, my guest is George Ratcliffe , Head of the Privacy GRC & Cryptography Executive Search Practice at recruitment firm, Stott & May . In this conversation, we discuss the current market climate & hiring trends for technical privacy roles; the need for higher technical capabilities across the industry;  pay ranges within different technical privacy roles; and George’s tips and t...

Get ready for an eye-opening conversation with Sanjay Saini , the founder and CEO of Privaini , a groundbreaking privacy tech company. Sanjay's journey is not only impressive due to his role in creating high-performance teams that have built entirely new product categories, but also for the invaluable lessons he learned from his grandfather about the pillars of successful companies - trust an...

This week’s guest is Tom Kemp : author; entrepreneur; former Co-Founder & CEO of Centrify (now called Delinia), a leading cybersecurity cloud provider; and a Silicon Valley-based Seed Investor and Policy Advisor. Tom led campaign marketing efforts in 2020 to pass California Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act, (CPRA), and is currently co-authoring the California Delete Act bill....

This week’s guest is Jeff Jockisch , Partner at Avantis Privacy and co-host of the weekly LinkedIn Live event, Your Bytes = Your Rights , a town hall-style discussion around ownership, digital rights, and privacy. Jeff is currently a data privacy researcher at PrivacyPlan , where he focuses specifically on privacy data sets.  In this conversation, we delve into current risks to location privacy; h...

This week's guest is Kim Wuyts , Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the DistriNet Research Group at the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven . Kim is one of the leading minds behind the development and extension of LINDDUN, a privacy threat modeling framework that mitigates privacy threats in software systems. In this conversation, we discuss threat modeling based on the Threat Modeling...

I am delighted to welcome my next guest, Brad Dominy . Brad is a MacOS and iOS developer and Founder & Inventor of Neucards , a privacy-preserving app that enables secure shareable and updatable digital contacts. In this conversation, we delve into why personally managing our digital contacts has been so difficult and Brad's novel approach to securely manage our contacts, architected with...

In this week’s episode, I speak with Damien Desfontaines , also known by the pseudonym “Ted”, who is the Staff Scientist at Tumult Labs , a startup leading the way on differential privacy. In Damien’s career, he has led an Anonymization Consulting Team at Google and specializes in making it easy to safely anonymize data. Damien earned his PhD and wrote his thesis at ETH Zurich , as well as his Mas...

I'm delighted to welcome guest, Melanie Ensign , Founder and CEO of Discernible , where she helps organizations adopt effective communication strategies to improve risk-related outcomes. She's managed security & privacy communications for some of the world's most notable brands, including Facebook, Uber & AT&T. Melanie counsels executives and technical teams to cut throu...

This week's guest is Umar Iqbal, PhD , a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, working in the Security and Privacy Research Lab . Umar focuses his research on two themes: 1) bringing transparency into data collection and usage practices, and 2) enabling individuals to have control over their own data by identify...

This week, we welcome Suchakra Sharma , Chief Scientist at Privado.ai , where he builds code analysis tools for data privacy & security. Previously, he earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal, where he worked on eBPF Technology and hardware-assisted tracing techniques for OS Analysis. In this conversation, we delve into Suchakra’s background in shifting left for secu...

I am delighted to welcome this week’s guest, Kurt Rohloff. Kurt is the CTO and Co-Founder of Duality Technologies , a privacy tech company that enables organizations to leverage data across their ecosystem and generate joint insights for better business while preserving privacy. Kurt was also Co-Founder of the OpenFHE Homomorphic Encryption Software Library that enables practical and usable privac...

This week, I'm joined by Katharine Jarmul , Principal Data Scientist at Thoughtworks & author of the the forthcoming book, "Practical Data Privacy: Enhancing Privacy and Security in Data." Katharine began asking questions similar to those of today's ethical machine learning community as a university student working on her undergrad thesis during the war in Iraq. She focused...

This week, we gain insights into the profession of privacy engineering with guest Menotti Minutillo , a Sr. Privacy Engineering Manager with 15+ years of experience leading critical programs and product delivery at companies like Uber, Thrive Global & Twitter. He started his career in 2007 on Wall Street as a DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer; and now, Menotti is a sought-after technical pr...

This week, we welcome Lipika Ramaswamy , Senior Applied Scientist at Gretel AI , a privacy tech company that makes it simple to generate anonymized and safe synthetic data via APIs. Previously, Lipika worked as a Data Scientist at LeapYear Technologies, and was the Machine Learning Researcher at Harvard University's Privacy Tools Project . Lipika’s interest in both machine learning and privac...

In this episode, I'm delighted to welcome Apu Kapadia , Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University. His research is focused on the privacy implications of ubiquitous cameras and online photo sharing. More recently, he has examined the cybersecurity and privacy challenges posed by AI-based smart voice assistants that can listen...

Victor Platt is a Senior AI Security and Privacy Strategist who previously served as Head of Security and Privacy for privacy tech company, Integrate.ai. Victor was formerly a founding member of the Risk AI Team with Omnia AI, Deloitt’s artificial intelligence practice in Canada. He joins today to discuss privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) that are shaping industries around the world, with a fo...

In this conversation with Markus Lampinen , Co-founder and CEO at Prifina , a personal data platform, we discuss meaty topics like: Prifina’s approach to building privacy-respected apps for consumer wearable sensors; LLMs (Large Language Models) like Chat GPT; and why we should consider training our own personal AIs. Markus shares his entrepreneurial journey in the privacy world and how he is “the...

Today, I welcome Gary LaFever, co-CEO & GC at Anonos; WEF Global Innovator; and a solutions-oriented futurist with a computer science and legal background. Gary has over 35 years of technical, legal and policy experience that enables him to approach issues from multiple perspectives. I last saw Gary when we shared the stage at a RegTech conference in London six years ago, and it was a pleasure...

R. Jason Cronk is the Founder of the Institute of Operational Privacy Design (IOPD) and CEO of Enterprivacy Consulting Group , as well as the author of Strategic Privacy by Design . I recently caught up with Jason at the annual Privacy Law Salon event and had a conversation about the socio-technical challenges of privacy, different privacy-by-design frameworks that he’s worked on, and his thoughts...