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In this episode of BigIDeas on the Go, we spoke with Omkhar Arasaratnam – Engineering Director, Cloud Security, Google – about data protection, risk, & regulations in financial services, how companies will need to evolve their privacy practices, and how parents can start their kids young with understanding and evaluating website and app privacy policies. 

In Episode 12, we talk to Marcel Leonardi – data privacy lawyer and FGB law professor who has worked closely with LGPD and won "Lawyer of the Year" in 2020 – about the Brazilian privacy regulation LGPD, how it's different from GDPR and CCPA, and how companies should prepare. 

In our last episode of the summer, we talk to Sam Visner, Director of the National Cybersecurity FFRDC at MITRE, about how he's working to help improve the cybersecurity across the nation's industries through standards & technology innovation, how the success of these programs is measured, and how cybersecurity and personal privacy are intertwined. 

This month we've seen two major updates in privacy law with the Schrems II Privacy Shield decision and the groundbreaking class action case of Brown vs. Google. We sat down with Matt Getz, privacy & compliance lawyer for Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and former arbitrator for the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework to talk about the implications of these cases moving forward. 

Once called a "rabid dog" by the Department of Justice, Kurt Opsahl, Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, joins us to talk about the evolution of privacy concerns to where we are today. 

Florence Raynal, Deputy Director, Head of the Department of European and International Affairs at the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), joins us for the 2 year anniversary of GDPR to talk about its successes and gaps, and where data rights legislation should go from here. 

In Episode 7, Dimitri talks to Mary Stone Ross about her path from a counter intelligence analyst at the CIA to becoming a co-author of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), how she helps companies navigate through privacy law, and where she sees the state of privacy moving. 

"The nature of information security and the future of humanity are tied together." In episode 06, Dan Geer, security and risk management expert and current CISO at In-Q-Tel,  joins us to talk about his path in information security, the state of privacy and security in today's landscape, and where potential new security businesses should focus their energy. 

JoAnn Stonier, Chief Data Officer of Mastercard, joins Dimitri to talk about the role of the Data office, how organizations should be thinking about data ethics, and how the current landscape will evolve. 

In Episode 04, Dimitri talks to Senator Kevin Thomas of New York about the state of privacy rights and the New York "Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD)" Act.