Masters of Privacy

What is Homomorphic Encryption? Can it be leveraged in the context of cross-vertical challenges? Dr. Ellison Anne Williams is the Founder and CEO of Enveil, the pioneering data security startup protecting Data in Use. She has more than a decade of experience spearheading avant-garde efforts in the areas of large scale analytics, information security and privacy, computer network exploitation, and network modeling at the National Security Agency and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. In addition to her leadership experience, she is accomplished in the fields of distributed computing and algorithms, cryptographic applications, graph theory, combinatorics, machine learning, and data mining and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Algebraic Combinatorics), a M.S. in Mathematics (Set Theoretic Topology), and a M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning).   References: Dr. Ellison Anne Williams (full profile), Enveil Enveil Drives Data Value Across Silos with Enhanced Encrypted Search Offering ICO Guidance on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Matthias Eigenmann: Confidential Computing, contractual relationships, and legal bases for Data Clean Rooms (Masters of Privacy) Damien Desfontaines: Differential Privacy in Data Clean Rooms (Masters of Privacy)   This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mastersofprivacy.com/subscribe

Is there a sweet spot between privacy compliance and marketing outcomes? What is “progressive consent”? Radha Gohil is a Data Governance and Privacy leader at Shell. She works on AdTech and MarTech data flows, as well as digital and programmatic supply chains, applying privacy compliance requirements to marketing-related practices. This includes consent management and, in general, acting as a bridge between Marketing, IT, CDO and legal. On top of that, Radha chairs the Digital Governance Steering Group at the ISBA (Incorporated Society of British Advertisers). She has previously worked at PwC and The Telegraph. With Radha we have covered the manner in which marketing teams navigate privacy compliance or even leverage a privacy-first approach as a competitive advantage. This includes dealing with transparency requirements or the difficult trade-offs involved in gathering proper consent when required to do so.    References: Radha Gohil on LinkedIn Incorporated Society of British Advertisers ICO: Upcoming action on making advertising cookies compliant   This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mastersofprivacy.com/subscribe

Will Data Clean Rooms help us avoid consent, or personal data altogether, and make the most of first-party data for data collaboration and addressability purposes? Matthias Eigenmann is a Swiss lawyer with over 10 years of practical experience in technology and data protection law. He currently works as legal counsel and DPO at Decentriq (a Data Clean Room), and is also an advisor on data protection matters to a large hospital in Switzerland. Prior to this, he spent several years working in tech and data protection law at a law firm, as well as as an in-house counsel for IT contracts and data protection at PwC Switzerland.  References: Matthias Eigenmann, Enhanced Privacy for Data Analytics Matthias Eigenmann on LinkedIn Decentriq, a Data Clean Room Damian Desfontaines: Differential Privacy in Data Clean Rooms (Masters of Privacy) Nicola Newitt: The legal case for Data Clean Rooms (Masters of Privacy) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mastersofprivacy.com/subscribe

Rie Aleksandra Walle brings over seventeen years of professional experience across both the private and public sectors, having worked at Kristiania University College, Ernst & Young, Nordic Innovation and the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment.  Rie is behind the DPO Hub, which helps busy DPOs by offering concise summaries and key practical takeaways from key CJEU rulings, EDPB documents and DPA decisions, as well as by putting together a community around it. She is also the host of the Grumpy GDPR podcast. With Rie we will explore her own tips and tricks to stay sharp and up to date, avoiding a myriad of shallow or confusing sources and digging for the best possible answers at all times - all of it while avoiding clickbait, radical opinions and the avalanche of so-called privacy experts clogging LinkedIn feeds. References: How to stay up to date as a DPO The Grumpy GDPR Podcast (NoTies Consulting) DPO Hub Rie Aleksandra Walle on LinkedIn   This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mastersofprivacy.com/subscribe

Dragos Tudorache, Member of the European Parliament, discusses foundation models, data protection, and copyright in the EU AI Act. The podcast explores negotiating complexities, open vs. closed model obligations, and implications on developers. It also delves into the interconnectivity of the AI Act and Data Act in European regulation.

Dr. Augustine Fou has nearly three decades of experience in digital marketing, including client-side experience at American Express and agency-side experience at IPG and Omnicom, where he served as Group Chief Digital Officer of eight agencies serving pharma and medical device clients. Dr. Fou also taught digital strategy at Rutgers University's executive education program and NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. With Dr. Fou we will aim to answer the following questions: Does programmatic advertising have to be necessarily bad for privacy? Can we once and for all dismantle the fairy tale of marketing attribution? How about advertising fraud controls? Is it possible that killing third party cookies is not only better for privacy but also better for business outcomes?  References: Dr Augustine Fou’s recent articles Dr. Augustine Fou: How to optimize towards humans and not just away from fraud (LinkedIn) Fou Analytics Sergio Maldonado: “Analytics CEO makes a passionate case against marketing attribution” (Chief Marketing Technologist, Scott Brinker) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mastersofprivacy.com/subscribe

Stefan Filipović is a privacy lawyer that began his career at the outset of GDPR enforcement in 2018. Throughout the years, he has built his expertise by working at a law firm focusing on IP and privacy, at a university as a researcher investigating legal challenges in regulating AI-based technology, and as a privacy officer and a counsel for a few Norwegian companies. Today he is a DPO at reMarkable. For several years, he also volunteered at ICANN, and for a period of time, at NIST’s privacy workforce. Beyond his focus on privacy compliance, he maintains a strong passion for information security, computer science, and risk management, as well as corporate governance and finance. References: Stefan Filipović on LinkedIn  Black Box Thinking (Matthew Syed) Privacy is hard and seven other myths (Jaap-Henk Hoepman)   This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mastersofprivacy.com/subscribe

Nina Müller and Sergio Maldonado discuss a few recent events across the EU, the UK, and the US: Yahoo/Uber ePrivacy fines, Google Chrome (Incognito Mode) settlement, US Congress Social Media hearing, upcoming UOOM/ Global Privacy Control enforcement across various states, and Spain’s AEPD Guidelines to circumvent cookie consent requirements for high-level Digital Analytics.  Please find relevant links and additional updates across all of our usual core sections (ePrivacy and regulatory updates; MarTech and AdTech; AI, competition, and digital markets; PETs and Zero-Party Data; future of media) on the PrivacyCloud website. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mastersofprivacy.com/subscribe

Could we re-interpret article 5.3 of the ePrivacy Directive so that the “strictly necessary” (to provide a service) consent exemption gives shelter to the core technical building blocks of advertising solutions making journalism possible? Can we not deal with personal data (should it be involved at all) or behavioral targeting (should it be the case) separately under the GDPR? Peter Craddock helps us answer that question. Our guest is a lawyer as well as a software developer, and he uses this dual background to help clients find legal solutions to technical problems and technical solutions to legal problems. Peter is based in Brussels and helps international companies with their global data strategy and with EU data litigation. He notably has strong expertise in the legal aspects of digital advertising and adtech, and has been one of the most prominent commentators of recent legal developments in that area. References: Peter Craddock on LinkedIn Maybe no consent needed for advertising under ePrivacy "cookie" rule? (Peter Craddock) EDPB seeks to redefine ePrivacy – Part II: Overbroad notions and regulator activism? IAB Europe Responds to the EDPB Public Consultation on their Draft Guidelines 2/2023 EDPB ePrivacy Guidelines: Comments Highlighting Risks to Businesses with Digital Activities (Keller and Heckman) Romain Robert: Pay or OK in AdTech - How it started and where it’s going (Masters of Privacy) Renzo Marchini: Unintended consequences of the EDPB Guidelines on storage and access under article 5.3 of the ePrivacy Directive (Masters of Privacy)  Cristiana Santos and Victor Morel: The problem with CMPs and TCF-based cookie paywalls (Masters of Privacy) Robert Bateman: Consent or Pay (Masters of Privacy) Peter Hense: How first party data will kill CMPs (Masters of Privacy)   This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mastersofprivacy.com/subscribe

Can we take Data Clean Rooms to the next level in terms of baked-in privacy? Damien Desfontaines is a Scientist at Tumult Labs, a startup that helps organizations safely share or publish insights from sensitive data, using differential privacy. Before that, he led the anonymization consulting team at Google, and got his PhD in computer science at ETH Zürich. He maintains a blog that teaches you all about differential privacy.  References: Damien Desfontaines on LinkedIn Nicola Newitt: the legal case for Data Clean Rooms (Masters of Privacy) Damien Desfontaines’ blog on Differential Privacy Tumult Labs: Resources and publications on Differential Privacy This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mastersofprivacy.com/subscribe