

"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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Aug 16, 2022 • 39min
The Data Diva E93 - Susie Alegre and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Susie Alegre, International Human Rights Lawyer, Author of Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate our Minds. We discuss her background initially in philosophy and then human rights law, Cambridge Analytica and algorithmic power, the advantage of a philosophic background in critical thinking, her concerns about privacy in technology, the Metaverse and its effect on behavior, emotional AI, new sensors are gathering more significant and revealing data, the false analogy of Internet as a library as the search shows us each different results, what is the social cost of Data Privacy abuse, reducing the negative impact on people, consider the potential harm of technology first, the UK Algorithmic Transparency Framework, simplicity of information important due to its volume, 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

Aug 9, 2022 • 35min
The Data Diva E92- Bianca Lopes and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Bianca Lopes, Identity & Access Advocate for Humanity, Co-Founder, Talle. We discuss her start in political science and diplomacy, business and banking, identity fueling the shift from corporate to individual rights, fear leads to the desire for both more openness and more security, the problems in the use of identity systems, privacy, and protection for organizations, the need for healthy customer relationships to create trust, the value exchange between business and individuals, the concern for the individual’s benefit to be a core value, biometrics and Data Privacy, high risk of data with low business value, 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

Aug 2, 2022 • 44min
The Data Diva E91 - Gal Ringel and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailIn episode 91 of “The Data Diva” Talks Privacy Podcast, Debbie Reynolds talks to Gal Ringel, Co-Founder & CEO, Mine PrivacyOps, Israel. We discuss his journey to privacy from his start in security and his desire to help the individual, most people are unaware that they can request a copy of their data or be forgotten in the EU, lack of fine control and transparency, and how his company enables people to know what companies know about them, the ever-increasing threat to privacy and providing choice, more than 300,000 people saved from a data breach by his software, services extended to businesses, the 4 main problems companies have in privacy and the importance of easy deployment, implementation of privacy solutions, importance of being proactive in the approach to privacy, many companies take a backward approach to privacy, shadow IT, the importance of considering data used by former employees and data mapping, his views on privacy and the importance of his company’s ability to solve the problem and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.Thank you to our sponsor Mine Privacy Ops, The first platform dedicated to handling data privacy operations while placing consumers and user experience at the center. #1 highest rated Data Privacy Management Software, the #1 highest rated DSR/DSAR Software, and the #1 highest-rated Sensitive Data Discover Software in the industry on G2, the leading business software and services reviews platform. Use Mine PrivacyOps as your organization's data privacy management solution and receive a 20% discount on DSR, Data Mapping, and ROPA modules.*.To get the discount, contact support@syamin.com and aThe Data Diva exclusives information will be available in the podcast show notes, our monthly Data Privacy Advantage newsletter, and the podcast transcript posted on debbereynoldsconsulting.comFind out more about Mine Privacy Ops at this website; Business.saymine.com. Enjoy the show 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

Jul 26, 2022 • 45min
The Data Diva E90 - John H. Sudduth and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to John H. Sudduth, Chief Information Officer, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. We discuss, his career journey in Cybersecurity and what is happening with cybersecurity at municipalities, what began his interest in privacy, insider threats to Data Privacy, the cyber risks of shadow IT, the increasing complexity of threats, his emerging privacy concerns, lack of Regulation of third-party data use, his gift of simplicity in communication and advisory, the importance of listening in executive communications, the differences in his public and private sector experience, technology that aids privacy retention, companies having a European outlook, unique challenges of municipalities in implementing privacy and their needing to deal with IoT, crosstalk between devices and abilities, the profusion of capabilities in IoT devices 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

Jul 19, 2022 • 34min
The Data Diva E89 - Samara Starkman and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Samara Starkman, Managing Partner, and Co-Founder at INQ Consulting, Partner at INQ Law Canada. We discuss her journey into privacy, her current privacy concerns such as ransomware, the ongoing issues of security and privacy, privacy news in Canada, the cloud, her advice to prospective new consultants, her professional training program, the need for constant research from trusted sources, the need for information exchange, the best first step to enter privacy profession, her privacy concerns about future technological advancements, behavior effects on Data Privacy, risks of data retention, privacy should be a business decision 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

Jul 12, 2022 • 38min
The Data Diva E88 - Takaya Terakawa and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Takaya Terakawa, CEO, Technica-Zen, K.K., Japan, and Author. We discuss the Asian concept of privacy, the advantage of other professional experiences prior to a career in privacy, the subject of his forthcoming book, the history of the PIPL in China and privacy in the Asia Pacific regions, differences between human and consumer rights in Asia, punishment for cybercrimes resulting in criminal penalties, the harm caused by data misuse, his privacy concerns with emerging technology, the potential impact of lack of privacy in the future, the risks vs rewards of technology, the regulatory focus on harm verse specific technologies, potentially more stringent privacy laws, 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

Jul 5, 2022 • 50min
The Data Diva E87 - Danyetta Fleming and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Danyetta Fleming, CEO, Covenant Security Solutions Intl. We discuss her background and journey into cybersecurity, her idea that cybersecurity is about protecting humanity, how profit motives may lead to detrimental privacy practices, facial recognition technology, the collection of redundant info leads to privacy and security risks with no redress, biometric technology can be intrusive, inadequate redress for technological error, information will be around a long time, her current privacy concerns, the importance of context, AI is a double-edged sword, we can’t let technology rule us, inexperienced designers can be problematic, the lack of technology can make you vulnerable, adapted technology can lead to trouble, low tech and no tech, 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

Jun 28, 2022 • 45min
The Data Diva E86 - Erik Rind and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Erik Rind, Founder & CEO at ImagineBC. We discuss his career journey to privacy and marketing technologies, his personal and professional privacy concerns, user choice and data agency, the monetization of data to benefit the individual, the asymmetry of benefit from data between marketers and the individual, data rights differences between consumers vs. humans rights, regulation outpaced technologies, privacy and monetary freedom, data scraping, the danger in using biometrics, facial recognition and harm of data abuses without adequate redress, recognition of imperfection in data systems, 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

Jun 21, 2022 • 45min
The Data Diva E85 - Mark Dobson and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Mark Dobson, IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) Program Manager, NextUse. We discuss his 25 years of IT roles, the considerable risk and problem of Data Privacy and data loss, his history of proper disposal of data and hardware assets, what is involved in improper data sanitization, AAA data disposal organizations, the end of digital transformation is digital degradation, a cautionary tale of Data Privacy and cybersecurity breach case against Morgan Stanley resulting in over 120 million dollars in fines and lawsuits, the lack of executive education on proper dispose of hardware and data, which creates a data risk for organizations, the importance of chain of custody, his thoughts about Data Privacy regulations which place the onus on organizations to avoid data risk, the need to budget for the end of life data disposal, 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

Jun 14, 2022 • 1h
The Data Diva E84 - Enrico Panai Ph.D. and Debbie Reynolds
Send us Fan MailDebbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Enrico Panai, Ph.D., Data and AI Ethicist, Éthicien du numérique, from France. We discuss his work on AI and technology, his work on AI ethics with ForHumanity, AI uses of nudge technologies, the need for ethics in AI, audits of AI systems, How ethics and regulation are related to AI, unexpected results of AI, Real-Time Bidding and AI transparency protecting the privacy of individuals, how people can be influenced by AI systems, the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, danger and challenge of inferences made about you not subject to regulation, 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


