

"The Data Diva" Talks Privacy Podcast"
Debbie Reynolds
The Data Diva Talks Privacy PodcastThe Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” Talks Privacy Podcast features thought-provoking discussions with global leaders on the most pressing data privacy challenges facing businesses today. Each episode explores emerging technologies, international laws and regulations, data ethics, individual rights, and the future of privacy in a rapidly evolving digital world.With listeners in more than 158 countries and 3,594 cities, the podcast delivers valuable insights for executives, technologists, regulators, and anyone navigating the global data privacy landscape.Global Reach and RankingsRanked in the Top 2% of 4.6 million podcasts worldwideTop 5% of 3 million+ podcasts globally (2024) – ListenNotesMore than 1 million downloads worldwideTop 5% in weekly podcast downloads (2024) – The Podcast HostTop 50 peak in Business and Management (2024) – Apple PodcastsRecognition and Awards#1 Data Privacy Podcast Worldwide (Privacy Plan)5 Best Data Privacy and Data Protection Podcasts for 2025 (Velotix) Best Data Privacy Podcasts 2026 (RadarFirst) The 17 Best Privacy Podcasts To Listen 2025 (bCast) Best Data Privacy Podcasts 2025 ( Player FM) Best Data Privacy Podcasts 2026 (Goodpods)Best Privacy Podcasts 2026 (Feedspot) #1 Data Privacy Podcast Worldwide 2024 – Privacy PlanThe 10 Best Data Privacy Podcasts in the Digital Space 2024 – bCastBest Data Privacy Podcasts 2024 – Player FMBest Data Privacy Podcasts – Top Shows of 2024 – GoodpodsBest Privacy and Data Protection Podcasts 2024 – TermageddonTop 40 Data Security Podcasts You Must Follow 2024 – Feedspot#1 Global Data Privacy Podcast (2021, 2022, 2023)Community Champion Award – Privacy First Awards, Transcend (2024)20 Best Data Rights Podcasts – Threat Technology Magazine (2021)Audience Demographics34% Data Privacy decision-makers (CXO level)24% Cybersecurity decision-makers (CXO level)19% Privacy Tech and Emerging Tech companies17% Investor Groups (Private Equity, Venture Capital, etc.)6% Media, Press, Regulators, and AcademicsEngagement and Reach1,000–1,500 average weekly downloads5,000–11,500 average monthly LinkedIn impressionsMore than 15,000 subscribers to the Data Privacy Advantage newsletterSponsor Impact4 podcast sponsors secured funding within 12 months of featuring$45 million average funding raised per sponsor3 average new enterprise customer sales per sponsor within 6 monthsAbout Debbie ReynoldsDebbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva,” is a globally recognized authority on Data Privacy and Emerging Technology. With more than 20 years of experience, she advises organizations across industries, including AdTech, FinTech, EdTech, Biometrics, IoT, AI, Smart Manufacturing, and Privacy Tech. As CEO and Chief Data Privacy Officer of Debbie Reynolds Consulting LLC, she combines technical expertise, business strategy, and global regulatory insight to help organizations retain value, reduce risk, and increase revenue.Learn more: https://www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com/
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Jan 3, 2023 • 38min
The Data Diva E113 - David Heinemeier Hansson and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to David Heinemeier Hansson, Co-owner & Chief Technology Officer of 37signals (Makers of Basecamp + HEY)We discuss the EU's proposed data transfer framework, which is still in draft form. We talk about how the framework will impact businesses and how privacy is a data issue, not a legal issue. David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish entrepreneur who has been working with the internet since the mid-90s. He is the co-owner of an American software company, and he is currently in Denmark. In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed the NSA's tapping into global internet cables and wholesale data collection. Heinemeier Hansson was horrified by this and wondered what the European reaction would be. The EU has traditionally had a stronger stance on online privacy than the US, and Heinemeier Hansson wanted to see if that would continue in light of this new information. In the wake of the European Court of Justice's ruling that the Privacy Shield agreement between America and Europe was invalid, privacy activists have been scrambling to figure out how to reform the agreement. We discuss his journey into technology and privacy and his strong stance on the challenges that businesses face trying to do transatlantic data transfers, and businesses were left scrambling by changes in privacy regulations between Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield, legal regulations and technology, the responsibility of regulators and businesses, privacy via encryption, small companies, and data risk, reconciling US and European privacy issues in the short term, attempts to provide clarity to business about data transfers, the expense associated with compliance, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.By popular demand, Debbie Reynolds Consulting is now offering executive briefings on emerging data privacy risks and how companies can avoid them. To learn more, visit the Executive briefings page on my website.Support the showBecome an insider, join Data Diva Confidential for data strategy and data privacy insights delivered to your inbox. 💡 Receive expert briefings, practical guidance, and exclusive resources designed for leaders shaping the future of data and AI. 👉 Join here: http://bit.ly/3Jb8S5pDebbie Reynolds Consulting, LLC

Dec 27, 2022 • 54min
The Data Diva E112 - Richy Glassberg and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailIn episode 112, of “The Data Diva” Talks Provacy Podcast, Debbie Reynolds talks to Richy Glassberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Safeguard Privacy. We discuss his background in ad tech and partnership with Wayne Matus to form SafeGuard Privacy, how data is misused is now subject to more, regulation, the need for standards and regulations, third party data use ans the Data Privacy challenges, differences between digital reality of data uses and law, sophisticated new tools and techniques to enhance Data Privacy, businesses need to figure out how to create benefits for their customers through privacy commitments, the twitter pixel privacy issue for brands, the need to make privacy personal for those responsible for it, technology complexity increasing for organizations, requirements for assessments as part of compliance, brand safety in ad tech and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.By popular demand, Debbie Reynolds Consulting is now offering executive briefings on emerging data privacy risks and how companies can avoid them. To learn more, visit the Executive briefings page on my website.Support the showBecome an insider, join Data Diva Confidential for data strategy and data privacy insights delivered to your inbox. 💡 Receive expert briefings, practical guidance, and exclusive resources designed for leaders shaping the future of data and AI. 👉 Join here: http://bit.ly/3Jb8S5pDebbie Reynolds Consulting, LLC

Dec 20, 2022 • 53min
The Data Diva E111 -Jim Barnebee and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Jim Barnebee, CEO, AIM-E (Artificial Intelligence Made Easy). We discuss our joint work on next generation connected systems with IEEE, his background in programming and development including work with IBM on Watson, bad data in and bad data out, AI does what you program it to do, in depth analysis of input data required for successful language models for AI projects, difficulty of adapting generalized AI to problems, the need for correct analysis of the problems to be solved by AI, why data can affect AI performance and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.By popular demand, Debbie Reynolds Consulting is now offering executive briefings on emerging data privacy risks and how companies can avoid them. To learn more, visit the Executive briefings page on my website.Support the showBecome an insider, join Data Diva Confidential for data strategy and data privacy insights delivered to your inbox. 💡 Receive expert briefings, practical guidance, and exclusive resources designed for leaders shaping the future of data and AI. 👉 Join here: http://bit.ly/3Jb8S5pDebbie Reynolds Consulting, LLC

Dec 13, 2022 • 46min
The Data Diva E110 - Jackie Singh and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Jackie Singh, Former Cyber Threat Expert for the Biden Presidential Campaign. We discuss her background fighting ransomware, in the military and ethical hacking, how she got to the Biden campaign how the campaign realized they needed her help, the balance between proactive and reactive security, the need for consumers to have control before a problem happens, her current privacy and cybersecurity concerns, safety versus convenience and the assumption that privacy exists, concerns about upcoming quantum computing capabilities, and her hope for Data Privacy in the future.By popular demand, Debbie Reynolds Consulting is now offering executive briefings on emerging data privacy risks and how companies can avoid them. To learn more, visit the Executive briefings page on my website.Support the showBecome an insider, join Data Diva Confidential for data strategy and data privacy insights delivered to your inbox. 💡 Receive expert briefings, practical guidance, and exclusive resources designed for leaders shaping the future of data and AI. 👉 Join here: http://bit.ly/3Jb8S5pDebbie Reynolds Consulting, LLC

Dec 6, 2022 • 38min
The Data Diva E109 - Brandon Pugh and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva,” talks to Brandon Pugh, Senior Fellow & Counsel at R Street Institute. We discuss his background in the New Jersey State Legislature and National Data Privacy, the Military, the FBI, and elected office, why the US can’t simply implement the GDPR and the complicated State and National issues of Data Privacy, the lack of education about this issue, the need for a new agency to address these concerns, the lack of individual human right to privacy, the need for privacy legislation to have bi-partisan support and ADPPA, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good, California has several privacy advantages and is the standard now, and for the foreseeable future, IoT needs direction and his contribution, EnergyStar as a good but simplistic model for IoT, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.By popular demand, Debbie Reynolds Consulting is now offering executive briefings on emerging data privacy risks and how companies can avoid them. To learn more, visit the Executive briefings page on my website.Support the showBecome an insider, join Data Diva Confidential for data strategy and data privacy insights delivered to your inbox. 💡 Receive expert briefings, practical guidance, and exclusive resources designed for leaders shaping the future of data and AI. 👉 Join here: http://bit.ly/3Jb8S5pDebbie Reynolds Consulting, LLC

Nov 29, 2022 • 46min
The Data Diva E108 - Michelle Beyo and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva” talks to Michelle Beyo, CEO Finavator, Open Banking Initiative Canada (OBIC). We discuss the convergence of finance and technology, how she created her own path to leverage her strengths, Open Banking, APIs and data connectors, GDPR and other regulations and human rights in FinTech, Vaporware and unfulfilled promises, the importance of discussion of client’s current needs, her current concerns in privacy and finance, the importance of diversity to privacy, confusion between blockchain and cryptocurrency, technology can reduce friction, and hope for Data Privacy in the future.By popular demand, Debbie Reynolds Consulting is now offering executive briefings on emerging data privacy risks and how companies can avoid them. To learn more, visit the Executive briefings page on my website.Support the showBecome an insider, join Data Diva Confidential for data strategy and data privacy insights delivered to your inbox. 💡 Receive expert briefings, practical guidance, and exclusive resources designed for leaders shaping the future of data and AI. 👉 Join here: http://bit.ly/3Jb8S5pDebbie Reynolds Consulting, LLC

Nov 22, 2022 • 51min
The Data Diva E107 - Keith Budden and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Keith Budden, Managing Director at Ensurety. We discuss his podcast and book, “GDPR Made Simple”, the tendency to overstate the complexity of the GDPR, the generally false threat of disgruntled employees and the true nature of insider threats, the correct mindset and fewer errors, the reactionary view of GDPR in the US, actions are needed as well as policies, frustration when advice is ignored, and the need to emphasize it’s the importance and document it, the human side of data privacy training, common sense, and GDPR, over-emphasis on consent, regulations not connected to current reality, UK is between US and EU in terms of privacy, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.By popular demand, Debbie Reynolds Consulting is now offering executive briefings on emerging data privacy risks and how companies can avoid them. To learn more, visit the Executive briefings page on my website.Support the showBecome an insider, join Data Diva Confidential for data strategy and data privacy insights delivered to your inbox. 💡 Receive expert briefings, practical guidance, and exclusive resources designed for leaders shaping the future of data and AI. 👉 Join here: http://bit.ly/3Jb8S5pDebbie Reynolds Consulting, LLC

Nov 15, 2022 • 49min
The Data Diva E106 - Peter Counter and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Peter Counter, Editor in Chief at FindBiometrics & Mobile ID World; Culture and Technology Writer. We discuss his experience as a trade journalist in technology topics, biometrics and the leading edge, simple BIPA compliance, BIPA simplicity and focus on human rights an the individual, problems with data collection and retention, AI needs to be balanced by human guidance, the Privacy, Identity and the Big Game Session of the Travel and Hospitality Biometrics Summit, trust is required for comfort with biometrics, benefits of consent in biometrics, managing the challenge of identity and authentication, biometrics in the workplace and bossware and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.By popular demand, Debbie Reynolds Consulting is now offering executive briefings on emerging data privacy risks and how companies can avoid them. To learn more, visit the Executive briefings page on my website.Support the showBecome an insider, join Data Diva Confidential for data strategy and data privacy insights delivered to your inbox. 💡 Receive expert briefings, practical guidance, and exclusive resources designed for leaders shaping the future of data and AI. 👉 Join here: http://bit.ly/3Jb8S5pDebbie Reynolds Consulting, LLC

Nov 8, 2022 • 40min
The Data Diva E105 - Zacharias Voulgaris and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Zacharias Voulgaris, Data Science Consultant, Author, and Mentor in Data Science and Data Analytics. We discuss his podcast “Analytics and Privacy” and his book “The Data Path Less Traveled” (Amazon), his fascination with math and programming from an early age and steady progress towards a PhD, the need for recognition of the effect of one’s work in privacy on individuals, 7-11 Australian biometric privacy case and the dangers of innovation, Big Data and the dangers it brings, increased data quality resulting from improved privacy, his current concerns in privacy and data, UK AI accountability proposals, where do data science and Data Privacy intersect and interact, privacy policies and flexibility, clarity minimizes risk and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.By popular demand, Debbie Reynolds Consulting is now offering executive briefings on emerging data privacy risks and how companies can avoid them. To learn more, visit the Executive briefings page on my website.Support the showBecome an insider, join Data Diva Confidential for data strategy and data privacy insights delivered to your inbox. 💡 Receive expert briefings, practical guidance, and exclusive resources designed for leaders shaping the future of data and AI. 👉 Join here: http://bit.ly/3Jb8S5pDebbie Reynolds Consulting, LLC

Nov 1, 2022 • 45min
The Data Diva E104- Vikas Malhotra and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Vikas Malhotra, Founder and CEO of WOPLLI Technologies, Co-Chair - Trust over IP Foundation’s AI & Metaverse taskforce, and Chair of IEEE’s Cyber Security for Next Generation Connectivity Systems for an IEEE project called "Cybersecurity for Next Generation Connectivity Systems". We discuss his early career in electronics and system integration, trust and the Internet, human centricity, and our work together with IEEE Cyber Security for Next Generation Connectivity Systems. identity, self-sovereign identity, privacy as an agency, the benefits of privacy to organizations, the cloud has encouraged retention of data, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future. By popular demand, Debbie Reynolds Consulting is now offering executive briefings on emerging data privacy risks and how companies can avoid them. To learn more, visit the Executive briefings page on my website.Support the showBecome an insider, join Data Diva Confidential for data strategy and data privacy insights delivered to your inbox. 💡 Receive expert briefings, practical guidance, and exclusive resources designed for leaders shaping the future of data and AI. 👉 Join here: http://bit.ly/3Jb8S5pDebbie Reynolds Consulting, LLC


