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On 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 segment where K shares about privacy measures taken for abused women and children due to the generosity of John Shufeldt and NextCare Urgent Care. Further, they delve into ethical and legal issues surrounding AI, cyberattacks on the Polish anti-doping agency, and fake news on social media platforms. The episode wraps up with a discussion on youth privacy perceptions and a brief look at a class action lawsuit against Stability AI and Mid Journey for copyright violations. K also shares a book she participated in written by Adrienne Go and Olga Mack Product Counsel: Advise, Innovate, and Inspire.

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On 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 and other nations. It may be a quiet summer elsewhere, but privacy is hotter than the heat waves! Tune in!

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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

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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 for NIST, the FCC fined four major us wireless carriers $200 million for unlawfully sharing customers location data without consent, the Florida governor signed a bill mandating explicit disclaimers on political advertisement to ensuring transparency in AI used for political campaigns, the Dutch Data Protection Authority issued guidance against the web scraping, Australian officials announced an overhaul of their privacy act. Carly Kind, IAPP AI governance global happened in Brussels. the women in AI emerald de leeuw

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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

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This episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool we go back to China discussing the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). You will actually be listening to the audio of a recent webinar organised by TrustArc, which they hosted together with former colleague Yi Lu. 

PIPL applies to all organisations doing business in China or targeting people in China and has significant compliance consequences similar to GDPR. Five months after its implementation, PIPL is still a major concern for many organizations. What if there was a way to reduce your time to compliance with PIPL drastically by leveraging the privacy work you have already done?

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

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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 [email protected]. 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

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This episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool meet to discuss some recent events in the privacy and data protection world, such as the proposed American Data Protection and Privacy Act, as the hearings, featuring comments presented from Caitriona Fitzgerald, Deputy Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC); David Brody, Managing Attorney, Digital Justice Initiative, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Bertram Lee, Senior Policy Counsel, Data Decision Making, and Artificial Intelligence, Future of Privacy Forum (FPF); Jolina Cuaresma, Senior Counsel, Privacy & Technology Policy

Common Sense Media; John Miller, Senior Vice President of Policy and General Counsel, Information Technology Industry Council; Graham Dufault, Senior Director for Public Policy, ACT | The App Association; Doug Kantor, General Counsel, National Association of Convenience Stores; and Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Co-Chair, 21st Century Privacy Coalition.

Tune in to hear about the ADPPA, as well a

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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

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This episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool is a little different than the norm as the IAPP hosted its first Data Protection Intensive: Nederland 2022.  Although K could not attend, she and Paul discussed a couple of substantive questions he could ask to [unsuspecting] participants. And those interviewees were quite knowledgeable. 

They comprise Bart Voorn, Helen Graham, Jose Belo, Zach Foote, Monika Tomczak, Vanessa van Kuilenburg, and Wanne Pemmelaar.

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

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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 [email protected]. 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

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This episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool connect with Paolo Balboni, who is attached to Maastricht University’s European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity as Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law. Last March, researchers at Maastricht University published the first-ever complete Corporate Social Responsibility framework for data protection, aimed at improving privacy and security for a sustainable digital future. The framework ​​translates theoretical ethical principles into tangible and practical guidelines for companies and organizations that process personal data. 

Next to his university role, Professor Balboni is one of the founders of ICT Legal Consulting, an Italo-Dutch law firm with offices around the world. He also has many other roles in privacy, including as the Chairman of the Data Protection Board of the European Patent Office.  

Join us as we discuss the framework, his career progression in privacy, and privacy as the fourth element in a successful ESG program. If you need help in justifying the work you do (or need to do), check out this research on ROI. As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy @trustArc and email [email protected]. Please do like and write comments on your favorite podcast act so other professionals can find us easily. 

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With TrustArc’s Privacy Studio and Governance Suite, you can automate cookie compliance, streamline data subject rights, and centralize your privacy tasks—all while reducing compliance costs. Visit TrustArc.com/serious-privacy.

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 [email protected]. 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

#heartofprivacy #europaulb #igrobrien #seriousprivacy #privacy #dataprotection #cybersecuritylaw #CPO #DPO #CISO

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In this episode of Serious Privacy, recorded on the anniversary of the GDPR (watch the recent webinar), Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool catch up on the past week or so in privacy.  What exciting things - or not so exciting things have happened. Most seem to be in the area of cross-border transfers. 

Join us as we discuss some history with the GDPR, with a light mention of Connecticut’s new privacy law, Quebec’s Bill 64, and People’s Republic of China’s PIPL (register for the upcoming webinar on PIPL compliance with Paul and Dr. K) We discuss whether the GDPR remains the gold standard of data protection laws, or one we want to inspire the others. We also discuss other related topics, such as the potential of the Global Cross Border Rules, based on the APECs Cross Border Privacy Rules, the EU-US thingy (the new agreement in principal, see recent webinar ), codes of conduct, and the Scope EU Cloud Code of Conduct specifically. For example, CloudFlare announced its adherence to the EU Cloud Code of COnduct and the rise in their stock. During this week, Paul missed the CPDP conference, including some of our friends - Emerald de Leeuw and Ralph O’Brien - along with the presentation by Professor Greenleaf

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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 [email protected]. 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

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In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool take some time to review recent events in the privacy / data protection world. This week, this means they cover the Connecticut Act concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act - the PDPOM… Paul has a cool name for it. Connecticut’s act passed on May 10, 2022 and takes effect July 1, 2023 - along with CPRA and Virginia on January 1, 2023; Colorado also on July 1, 2023; Utah on December 31, 2023  Please also see the recent state laws webinar from TrustArc and the state whitepapers.

This leads into the Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court leaked draft decision and then on to Europe with a study conducted  by the  Radboud University in the Netherlands, imec-COSIC, KU Leuven (a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium), and University of Lausanne in Switzerland. These researchers looked at thousands of websites and their “leaky forms.” Leaky forms are those that capture data before the individual submits it, so companies get a lot of data that they should not have, including passwords. This may not be purposeful, but it is concerning. The full paper is published here.

As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @

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With TrustArc’s Privacy Studio and Governance Suite, you can automate cookie compliance, streamline data subject rights, and centralize your privacy tasks—all while reducing compliance costs. Visit TrustArc.com/serious-privacy.

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 [email protected]. 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

#heartofprivacy #europaulb #igrobrien #seriousprivacy #privacy #dataprotection #cybersecuritylaw #CPO #DPO #CISO

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In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool take some time to review recent events in the privacy / data protection world. This week, this means they cover the Connecticut Act concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act - the PDPOM… Paul has a cool name for it. Connecticut’s act passed on May 10, 2022 and takes effect July 1, 2023 - along with CPRA and Virginia on January 1, 2023; Colorado also on July 1, 2023; Utah on December 31, 2023  Please also see the recent state laws webinar from TrustArc and the state whitepapers.

This leads into the Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court leaked draft decision and then on to Europe with a study conducted  by the  Radboud University in the Netherlands, imec-COSIC, KU Leuven (a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium), and University of Lausanne in Switzerland. These researchers looked at thousands of websites and their “leaky forms.” Leaky forms are those that capture data before the individual submits it, so companies get a lot of data that they should not have, including passwords. This may not be purposeful, but it is concerning. The full paper is published here.

As always, if you have comments or questions, let us know - LinkedIn, Twitter @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @

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With TrustArc’s Privacy Studio and Governance Suite, you can automate cookie compliance, streamline data subject rights, and centralize your privacy tasks—all while reducing compliance costs. Visit TrustArc.com/serious-privacy.

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 [email protected]. 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

#heartofprivacy #europaulb #igrobrien #seriousprivacy #privacy #dataprotection #cybersecuritylaw #CPO #DPO #CISO