Send us a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal catch up on some happenings in the privacy world. We discussed US election results and a peek at some potential changes to come, such as appointments to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, EU first review of the thingy (the EU US Data Privacy Framework), (please note - there is no need to have both SCCs and register to the framework), TrustArc’s new Privacy Pulse newsletter, Japan had the f...

Send us a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal along with esteemed co-host and colleague Ralph O’Brien bring you the day 2 of the #GPA (Global Privacy Assembly) in #Jersey. We feature open conversations with Eduardo Ustaren of Hogan Lovells; Shana Morgan, Global Head of Privacy & AI Legal Compliance, L3Harris Technologies; Alexander McD White, the inaugural Privacy Commissioner for Bermuda and Patricia Kosseim, Commissioner, Office of the Inform...

Send us a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal along with esteemed co-host and colleague Ralph O’Brien bring you the opening day of the #GPA (Global Privacy Assembly) in #Jersey. We set up a table in the common room and snagged passing celebrities to join us for some open conversation, such as Paul Vane Information Commissioner at Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner, and forever favorite Ron de Jesus. We discussed some of the challen...

Send us a textThis episode of Serious Privacy should actually have been released two weeks ago, but life happened... As usual however, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal discuss recent developments in privacy and data protection laws around the world. In this episode, they discuss:Opinion on certain obligations following from the reliance on processor(s) and sub-processor(s)Guidelines on the processing of personal data based on legitimate interestC-621-22 Koninklijke Nederlandse Lawn Tennisbond ...

Send us a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal, speak with Conor Hogan about his passion for privacy, privacy for the public good, the Women in AI Governance network and privacy podcasting. Links:- Chance Conversations with Carey and Conor podcast- Conor's Substack- Conor as King for a Day- Women in AI Governance If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email podcast@serio...

Send us a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal discuss recent developments in privacy and data protection laws around the world. They talk about the new European Commission that will take office later this year, the revamp of the IAPP, mobile app compliance guidelines from the CNIL, the Global Privacy Assembly in Jersey, and much more. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and em...

Send us a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth talks with Meaghan McCluskey while dr. K Royal is enjoying a well deserved vacation. They talk about Meaghan's career in privacy, that brought her from the Office of the Ontario Privacy Commissioner to Nymity and then TrustArc, where she led the research teams providing daily updates on global privacy developments. Now, Meaghan is a consultant with The Privacy Pro, a boutique privacy consultancy based in Toronto.Also on the menu t...

Send us a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal discuss recent developments in privacy and data protection laws around the world. They talk about the prohibition to use X in Brazil, a Spanish and a Swedish data protection fine, as well as the Global Privacy Assembly in Jersey. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]. Rate and Review us! Proudly sp...

Send us a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss recent developments in privacy and data protection laws around the world. They talk about transferring personal data to China, artificial intelligence and of course the fine Uber received for transferring personal data to the U.S. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]. Rate and ...

Send us a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss recent developments in privacy and data protection laws across various regions, including legislative updates in Latin America, the Middle East, Israel, Malaysia, and the U.S. They also highlight enforcement actions in Texas against General Motors and tracking, privacy concerns around AI chatbots in Europe, and data breaches involving the Danish family court. The script includes a personal segme...

Send us a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a hot week in privacy with the child safety bill which passed the US Senate (covered wonderfully by IAPP’s Cobun Zweifel-Keegan), the recent US Supreme Court decision in the Netchoice case, the historical duty of care, and the Texas settlement with Meta for $1.2B for biometrics violations. But wait - there is more - recent events, amendments, enforcements, and pacts - from EU, Nigeria, Malaysia an...

Send us a Text Message.On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal hone in on cybersecurity with a robust discussion on the Crowdstrike incident, the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (#DORA), and other cyberlaw topics. We also have a little on current events. Tune in for some #livinglearninglaughing. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and email [email protected]....

Send us a Text Message.On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a privacy mishmash - starting with the shot heard ‘round the world (assassination attempt on Donald Trump), followed by morality expectations of some professionals (like teachers, at least one teacher was fired for comments on the attempt), the FTC’s actions against Calmara, #HeHealth’s controversial app (and kudos to the team who had to go through all those pics and videos) and NGL Labs,...

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a week in privacy, including election outcomes in the UK with Ralph O’Brien and France with Marie Penot. We also discuss the overturning of Chevron in the US with the recent US Supreme Court decision in Loper and the global privacy enforcement network has come out with the results of their 2024 sweep. We also mention a little about Texas, Oregon, and the faltering US federal privacy law. Tune in for some #livin...

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal hosted the world’s first Field CPO, Ron deJesus. We talk about how he got into privacy, Trevor the treasure of IAPP, Ron’s field trip to talk to other CPOs, what it’s like to be a regulator vs. in-house, and so much more - including the IAPP #LGBTQ party at #PSR in September so exciting! And what we are hoping to see also at the #GlobalPrivacyAssembly in Jersey in October…. As well as some recent news in #priva...

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal hosted Vermont Rep. Monique Priestley (D), one of the sponsors of the Vermont Data Privacy Act, which passed the VT legislature on May 11 only to be vetoed by Gov. Phil Scott (R) and faced a tight override effort. Today she’ll discuss the drivers behind the bill, touted as a truly different bill for the US, and what happens next.Tune in for some living, learning, and laughing. If you have comments or questions, find ...

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss APRA resuscitation, #elections and #AI and #sensitive political data, NY Child’s Code, the CA and French MOU, the Norwegian DPA being forbidden to impose daily sanctions on Meta by the Privacy Board, government surveillance drama (criticized by Signal), and even a little SpongeBob. And congrats to ZoomInfo for the first #TrustArc #AI certification.Tune in for some living, learning, and laughing. If you have c...

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a couple of weeks in privacy. Topics include the Vermont Privacy Act veto heard around the world, updates in the European Parliament, the Digital Advertising Alliance webchoices 2.0, a joint investigation by the UK and Canada into the 23andMe breach, Clearview AI’s settlement proposal, noyb’s complaint against Google for its privacy sandbox, the Apple Intelligence announcement, Hong Kong’s guide on AI, the US S...

This week Paul and K are both travelling, so the recording was slightly more complex then usual. While K was in Arizone for the State Bar of Arizona 2024 Convention, Paul was in London for the inaugural edition of Legal Tech Talk. We bring you the highlights of both events, as well as some headlines of what has been happening in the world of privacy and data protection this week. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaul...

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal cover a couple of weeks in privacy - on the scary side. Topics include updates on the global CBPRs and PRPs, NOYB launched a complaint against open AI with the austrian data protection authority and 11 complaints against META, Italy reinstates chatGPT, the EDPB chatGPT task force report, a lawsuit against General Motors for IOT, the U. S. Department of Commerce announced some new initiatives under the AI order ...

In this 200th episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal (our views are our own and do not reflect the views of our employers) are joined by honorary co-host Ralph O'Brien, as well as Marie Penot to celebrate 4,5 years of podcasting. The four look back on what surprised and disappointed them these past year, but also talk about some current developments, including a Cypriot investigation into P*rnhub's data protection practices, the UK Data Protection and Digital Information ...

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal (our views are our own and do not reflect the views of our employers) connect with Irith Kist, the Data Protection Officer at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, also a member of the Data Protection Advisory Commission of the City of Amsterdam. However, she is also a health data researcher herself, and on the 5th of June, she will defend her dissertation at Leiden University called A Fair Balance.This is a topic we lov...

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss a holy week in privacy where the V’s took front page - the Vatican issued a privacy decree and Vermont is trying to pass a strong privacy law and a coalition of state Attorneys General signed a letter imploring Congress not to preempt their privacy laws. In addition, CO AI bill is in front of the governor, Maryland passed a kids code, Google and Apple is hosting their annual developers conference, the U.S. Se...

On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss a hot week in privacy! Topics include the amendment of Colorado’s privacy act to include protecting children, CT’s AI bill did not pass, but the TikTok bill was rolled not a foreign aid bill. ByteDance is ordered to divest themselves of TikTok by January 19, 2025 with the allowance for a 90 days extension. But Bytedance has already filed a suit in the DC Court of Appeals and no matter what the outcome is, it ...