

Serious Privacy
Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth & Ralph O'Brien
The PICCASO award winning Podcast, for those who are interested in the hottest field of human rights and laws on the digital frontier. Whether you are a professional who wants to learn more about privacy and privacy laws, data protection, GDPR or cyber law or someone who just finds this fascinating, we have topics for you from data management to cybersecurity, from social justice to data ethics and AI and digital identity protection. In-depth information on serious privacy topics including interviews with privacy leadership, privacy culture, serious discussions, and more. This podcast, hosted by Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien, features open, unscripted discussions with global privacy professionals (those kitchen table or back porch conversations) where you hear the opinions and thoughts of those who are on the front lines working on the newest issues in handling personal data. Real information on your schedule - because the world needs serious privacy. Follow us on BlueSky (@seriousprivacy.eu) or LinkedIn
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Oct 19, 2023 • 39min
A Nordic Smörgåsbord - with Odia Kagan and the UK Bridge (and more)
Send us Fan MailPaul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal bring you part III of the Nordic Privacy Arena. Odia Kagan is Partner and Chair of GDPR Compliance and International Privacy at Fox Rothschild LLP. You may very well know her from her LinkedIn posts, where she summarises data protection related news developments for a large audience, a little bit like we would do during a week in privacy episode. Odia is certainly not shy to give her opinion, as you will also hear in this episode. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Oct 13, 2023 • 8min
A Nordic Smörgåsbord - The Allan Frank interview
Send us Fan MailThe episode we released earlier this week missed a segment, that somehow disappeared in the final edit. The full episode is online now, but in case you have already listened, we also offer you the Allan Frank interview as a separate download. Enjoy the listen! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Oct 12, 2023 • 48min
A Nordic Smörgåsbord - Live from NPA23 Part II
Send us Fan MailOn 26 and 27 September 2023, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal attended for their first live podcast recording. But of course that was not the only recording they made during the Nordic Privacy Arena 2023. During the breaks and after the conference, K and Paul also interviewed some people, and those interviews you hear today. First up is Allan Frank, IT security specialist at the Danish Data Protection Agency, who talks about the Google Chromebook investigation. Next is Nils Ingdahl, the DPO for the Church of Norway. After that, you’ll hear a recorded segment from Grumpy GDPR podcast colleague Rie Walle with her review of the conference, and we wrap up with Caroline Olstedt Carlström, the Chair of the Swedish Data Protection Forum. Dataministeriet PodcastGrumpy GDPR PodcastSwedish Data Protection Forum If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Oct 5, 2023 • 32min
Live from Stockholm at NPA23!
Send us Fan MailOn 26 September 2023, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal recorded the first ever Serious Privacy Live, during the Nordic Privacy Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. In the past eight years, the NPA, organised by the Swedish Data Protection Forum, has become a staple on the European conference calendar. The podcast was the opening of the second conference day, with the request to look back on what was discussed during the first day, and look ahead at day two. This episode is the recording of the live podcast, and will discuss the position of the Nordic data protection authorities (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland), the development and regulation of Artificial Intelligence, and the forthcoming evaluation of the GDPR.Next week, you'll hear another episode from the NPA with interviews we did during the conference breaks. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Sep 28, 2023 • 39min
Honey, Where's the Kids' Data?
Send us Fan MailOn this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal talk about children's data, following the recent decision of the Irish Data Protection Commission in the TikTok case. Apart from a fine of 345 million Euro, the authority also ordered TikTok to change some of their policies, especially where children are concerned. Reason enough for us to dive a little deeper into children's data, age appropriate design, and what consent for children and their parents should look like.Age Appropriate Consent Code UKAge Appropriate Consent Code California If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Sep 21, 2023 • 27min
Let's go Big: Privacy Class Action Lawsuits
Send us Fan MailOn this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss privacy class action lawsuits featuring articles and information from Law.com with Richard Sheinis of Hall Booth Smith and Lisa Jaffee of Hiscox Insurance on Law.com about the class action “kill chain,” and one from Miller Nash by Brian Esler and Eva Novik on the new wave of class action lawsuits, featuring the Video Privacy Protection Act - and of course, mentioning our friends Ian Ballon of Greenberg Traurig and Constantine Karboliotis. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Sep 13, 2023 • 40min
A long week in Privacy with Paul and Dr.K
This week on Serious Privacy, Paul and Dr. K discuss a range of privacy topics including the Norwegian Data Protection Authority's order for Meta to stop personalized advertising, investigations into Google ads and COPPA, gatekeepers in online advertising, the importance of consulting and education when implementing new technologies, privacy concerns of cameras in self-driving cars, and the adoption of the EU-US data privacy framework.

Sep 6, 2023 • 40min
The Ecstasy and Agony of Privacy in India with Malavika Raghavan
Send us Fan MailOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss the newly passed Digital Personal Data Act in India with Malavika Raghavan, PhD candidate in Information Systems and Innovation at the London School of Economics and Senior Fellow for India at the Future of Privacy Forum. Malavika is a lawyer with a background in policy-focused research, studying the impacts of digitisation on low-income individuals in India. In the past, she also worked several years for the global law firm Allen & Overy. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Aug 24, 2023 • 38min
If it's broken, fix it (UK breaches with Ralph O'Brien)
Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Ralph O’Brien (together in a long time) to discuss some of the data breaches happening in the UK, such as a breach of the electoral records and police officers in Northern Ireland, historical breach statistics, and more. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

Aug 16, 2023 • 34min
Privacy Popcorn with Paul and K
Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal share a healthy serving of privacy popcorn featuring India’s new law, Georgia's new law, Meta news, Argentina and Kenya and Worldcoin, China, NIST Cybersecurity Framework call for comments, and more, including California's adequacy decision from the Dubai International Financial Center. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.


