Serious Privacy

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Serious Privacy, powered by TrustArc, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal sum up recent developments in privacy, including Meta's intent to change its legal basis and offer Europeans a choice, a notable breach in the United Kingdom involving a former politician Nigel Farage and a CEO resigning due to a breach, a TikTok decision about its practices with minors, new U.S. state privacy law, and the 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.

Send us Fan MailOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal tackle a topic that much trigger strong reactions, Child Sexual Abuse Materials or CSAM. Our guests today have worked a lot on this topic. Dr Teresa Quintel is attached to Maastricht University and mainly works on issues related to data protection in the law enforcement sector. Alexander Hanff is a long-time privacy activist. Both were participants in a panel discussion on the same topic during this year’s CPDP Conference in Brussels, and during today’s episode, you will learn why.Links: ●      https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_2976 ●      https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/eu-csam-detection-plan/?guccounter=1●      https://9to5mac.com/guides/csam/ 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.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Tom Kemp, a Silicon Valley based author, entrepreneur, investor, and policy advisor. He founded a cybersecurity cloud provider and was one of the drivers behind the campaign to adopt the CPRA in California. And now he has written a book containing big tech that is out later this summer.Whether we look at the whole range of new legal requirements, from the European Digital Services and Market Acts, to the US state privacy laws, to regulatory enforcement decisions and discussions about breaking up some of the very large online platforms, big tech is under fire.And our guest today has a view on these issues and is not shy to share it. We discuss the overcollection and weaponization of our most sensitive data, problematic ways Big Tech uses AI to process and act upon our data, and also the stifling of competition and entrepreneurship due to Big Tech's dominant market positions. He also discusses some practical matters such as how to block trackers on your personal devices along with a history of the CPRA. 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.

Send us Fan MailOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal connect with Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, vice president for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum, and Romain Robert, Program Director and lawyer at NOYB to discuss the new landmark decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union: Meta v Bundeskartellamt, where the Court not only decided that competition authorities can use data protection when deciding on the potential abuse of a dominant market position, but also made some important calls on online advertising. Plus, Paul adds in some breaking news. Should you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to us via seriousprivacy@trustarc.com or info@seriousprivacy.eu, or via Twitter at @podcastprivacy. You find us on LinkedIn as well - just look for Serious Privacy. K is on Twitter and threads as @heartofprivacy and Paul as @EuroPaulB. 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.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Serious Privacy,Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and  Dr. K Royal catch up on a busy 48 hours in the world of privacy and data protection. Their conversation goes from a new landmark decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union to updates on the Thingy to new FTC nominations to a proposed EU law on the cooperation between data protection authorities. They also touch on China, Nigeria, India, Ireland, Argentina, and in the U.S. ... Delaware. Whew.Links:Meta v BundeskartellamtDraft EU law on DPA cooperationThe ICCL comments on the draft EU lawThe EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (as adopted)The Irish gag order for data protection investigationsUK-US Data BridgeFTC NominationsFrance TikTok Law50 Years of FIPPs 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.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and  Dr. K Royal take you on a fast-paced global tour for privacy developments, including Oregon sending a privacy bill to the governor, Texas passing a privacy law, Connecticut enhancing its privacy law, Apple’s announcement on Child Sexual Abuse Material,  the parliamentary monsoon session in India, and two items out of the Swedish DPA - a fine on Spotify and Bonnier News. Also, we briefly touch on the 10th anniversary of the Snowden leaks. As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier.  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.

Send us Fan MailWhile Dr. K Royal is traveling, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki turns our attention to the Middle East for this episode of Serious Privacy. He speaks with Lori Baker, the Vice President Legal & Director of Data Protection for the DIFC Commissioner’s Office. The DIFC - the Dubai International Financial Center - has a special status in the United Arab Emirates and therefore also their own data protection law, going back to 2004. Paul and Lori talk about data protection in the Emirates, how the legislation compares to other laws we know such as the GDPR, and international data flows to and from the DIFC.Resources:The website of the DIFC and the overview of adequacy decisionsThe books discussed:What We May Become by Teresa MessineoThe Fire by Night by Teresa MessineoThe Second Sleep by Robert Harris  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.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and  Dr. K Royal discuss all things #AI - or at least all the basics, in light of the EU Parliament passing the #AIAct last week. In addition, the US has active measures evaluating AI (such as appointing VP Kamala Harris as AI Czar, US National AI initiative), the #OECD efforts, and various uses of AI, e.g., Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (#LAWS), facial recognition technology, #chatGPT, and# non-consensual pornography fakes. We also discuss some of the #ethics of AI along with some of the #AIscarymoments.The story of Clever Hans on Wikipedia, which was discussed in the book Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford. 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.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Serious Privacy, Dr. K Royal connects with R. Jason Cronk, infamous privacy professional extraordinaire. Topics include a brief weekly update on privacy events, The Rise of Privacy Tech (TROPT) and its summit, led by Lourdes Turrecha, privacy frameworks, such as NIST privacy and 800-53, ISO27001, appendix A, ISO 27701, his new podcast with the BBB, privacy abbreviated with Donna Fraser, his book with IAPP strategic Privacy by Design, his non-profit the Institute of Operational Privacy Design, and much more. In fact, no surprise, our friend Ralph O’Brien’s name came up in conversation as well as Deirdre Mulligan, new Deputy Chief Technology Officer for policy for the United States and privacy engineering a la Michelle Dennedy. We also touched on the Privacy Law Scholars conference along with one of our favorite young law scholars, Wayne Unger. In addition, Jason covers many of his activities, such as speaking at CERN. As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy  and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier.  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.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Serious Privacy,Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford and Company tackle the tough topic of vendor management.As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy  and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier.  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.