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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.

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The Forty Sortie - a week in Privacy Nov 25, 2022

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In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki (turning 40 and this is our 40th episode this season) and Dr. K Royal of Outschool discuss recent events in privacy.
Join them as they touch on a recent data breach by Transunion in the US and mass public notice, passkeys vs. passwords (resource; FIDO open authentication standards), the first female president of Slovenia, Natasa Pirc Musar who is also a privacy professional (congrats!), PET - privacy enhancing technology -joint UK US competition, data localization, a controversial decision by the French Parliament on banning certain technolgies in schools, and Argentina’s data protection bill submitted to parliament (updated link to come).

As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy @trustArc and email seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast act 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!

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Privacy Space Superheroes @ Privacy Space (Richard Merrygold, Claire Archibald, Rowenna Fielding, and Tash Whitaker) Nov 16, 2022

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In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool change it up a little. Paul attended Privacy Space in the UK and took the opportunity to record short interviews with Richard Merrygold of iStorm, Claire Archibald with Education Data Hub (@edudatahub), Rowenna Fielding (@MissIGGeek) at Miss IG Geek Ltd, and Tash Whitaker, an external DPO superhero - some of our favorite names in privacy / data protection.

As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy @trustArc and email seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast act so other professionals can find us easier.

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Catching Up is Hard to do - a week with Paul and K Nov 11, 2022

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In this episode of Serious Privacy, Dr. K Royal of Outschool returns from vacation and catches up on the privacy activity with Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki. It seems like it was a quiet few weeks, but the more they talk, the more there is to catch up on.

Paul and K talk about the Microsoft Digital Defense Report, posted by a colleague Victoria Beckman with Microsoft, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity Threat Landscape Report (not reviewed yet), the agreement between the data protection authorities of S. Korea and France for cooperation, the Twitter purchase and the move to Mastedon, the Digital Services Act publication, a controversial decision out of Denmark about companies not being able to retain marketing opt out lists, S. Korea vs. China vs. GDPR, and several other topics.

As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy @trustArc @igrobrien @barbgs10 and email seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast act so other professionals can find us easier.

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Pressing Matters to be Forgotten (with Chris Docksey) Nov 02, 2022

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While Dr. K Royal of Outschool is enjoying a well deserved vacation, Ralph O’Brien is joining Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki for a Serious Privacy conversation with Chris Docksey, the honorary Director General of the EDPS. Chris is also a member of the data protection authority in Guernsey and a visiting fellow at Maastricht University.

During this episode, Ralph and Paul talk with Chris about the right to be forgotten, and the implications it has on local journalism. Chris has previously written about this for the German Verfassungsblog, raising concerns about the fair balance between privacy and press freedom in the online context and a possible chilling effect of self-censorship.

As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy @trustArc @igrobrien @barbgs10 and email seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast act so other professionals can find us easier.
Resources:

The judgment in the Costeja case
Chris' article on Verfassungsblog
Carole Cadwalladr's Ted Talk

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On Revelations and Doing What's Right (with Barb Lawler) Oct 26, 2022

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While Dr. K Royal of Outschool is enjoying a well deserved vacation, Ralph O’Brien is joining Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki for a Serious Privacy conversation with Barb Lawler, the CEO of the Information Accountability Foundation and winner of the 2022 IAPP Vanguard Award for North America. Barb has a long career in privacy and was, among other things, the first Chief Privacy Officer at Hewlett Packard. She spend many years in the same role at Intuit. At the IAF, Barb is involved in the foundation’s contributions to the global legislative debate on privacy, as well as projects dealing with the future of responsible data use and data ethics.

During this episode, Ralph and Paul talk with Barb about her career, legislative developments in the U.S. and around the world and what the next decade will look like in terms of privacy and data protection. As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy @trustArc @igrobrien @barbgs10 and email seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast act 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!

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Say Yes to the Data Sharing (with Yannick Vogel) Oct 19, 2022

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This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal speak with Yannick Vogel. Yannick was one of the finalists of the 6th EDPL Young Scholar Award 2022, as well as a PhD student hoping to obtain a Joint International Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology. His paper, titled “Stretching the Limit, The Functioning of the GDPR’s Notion of Consent in the context of Data Intermediary Services” looks ahead at one of the new European laws that are entering into force shortly as part of the EU Digital Single Market: the Data Governance Act. This law should make it easier to share personal data, especially between the public and the private sector. What it all entails, and what consent has got to do with it, we’ll discuss with Yannick in this week’s episode.
Previous Young Scholar Award episodes:

Pervasive Interference: A chat about Purpose Limitation (with Isabel Hahn)
It’s Not All About You: DNA and Group Privacy (with Taner Kuru)
You have the Right to Rights in Law Enforcement (with Katherine Quezada Tavárez)

As always, please feel free to share your thoughts with us - there will be a year end show on the best episodes. Get your vote counted! Follow us on LinkedIn as Serious Privacy and on Twitter @podcastprivacy @EuroPaulB and @HeartofPrivacy.

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Hot Hot Hot - Executive Order - Start your Privacy Engines Oct 13, 2022

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On this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool discuss the 10-7 series of deliberately machinated and long-awaited political events surrounding the EU-US data transfer mechanism that is intended to replace the Privacy Shield, invalidated under Schrems II back in 2020 - the “thingie.” Plus, the UK-US joint statement on adequacy consideration. These various events comprise the Executive Order (the Fact sheet along with the information on the European Commission site), the Department of Commerce statement, the Department of Justice from the Office of the Attorney General on the Data Protection review Board final rule, and the NOYB’s response. As expected, and TrustArc predicted, those companies who remained in the Privacy Shield will have a transition plan.

For additional information, please also see various analyses from the IAPP and the Future of Privacy Forum. Carry the conversation further and connect with us to discuss.

As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy @trustArc and email seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast act 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!

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Latin America: It's for Privacy Lovers! (José Bermúdez) Oct 06, 2022

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On this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool are headed to South America to see what is happening in privacy. With one cohost based in the United States and the other in Europe, it is no surprise that the focus of the Serious Privacy conversations is often the transatlantic relationship. Of course, data protection goes beyond the European Union and the United States, many Latin American countries have had national data protection laws for quite a long time.

So José Alejandro Bermúdez joined the show to share a wealth of knowledge on privacy laws, especially an update on Colombia. José was the inaugural data protection commissioner in Columbia and a longtime data protection advocate. José was a member of the governmental commission appointed to draft the Columbian data protection and its secondary regulations, and a member of the Colombian OECD accession mission for privacy in the digital economy. He is currently the LATAM advisor for the Centre for Information Policy Leadership - so he knows a thing or two about privacy in Latin America.

As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy @trustArc and email seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast app so other professionals can find us easier.

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Paul, K, and Sam: The real and raw side of privacy Sep 23, 2022

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On this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool have a rare moment to share philosophies about privacy, with a touch on some current events. Hear what they have to say about new professionals moving in to privacy, what courses to take or skills to have, and how experienced professionals transition into privacy. It’s raw. It’s real (and it includes Sam Elliott).

As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy @trustArc and email seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast act 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!

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Knock Knock. Who's There? Your Passport to Privacy Sep 16, 2022

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On this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool catch up on a slow week in privacy. We do touch on some meaty topics that are usually overlooked, such as a CISO going into trial on personal liability for a data breach (or rather the non-disclosure of a data breach), the American Data Protection and Privacy Act’s (ADPPA’s) future, with the recent statement by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi on her support or lack thereof, and the GDPR implementation review. Tune in and hear what these and other wildly exciting topics come up.
Register for TrustArc's upcoming webinar on rethinking how consumer data is managed on Sept. 20.

As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy @trustArc and email seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast act 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!

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