Data & The City

Our latest episode The Algorithm Wears Prada has officially landed — and data darling, it’s serving deception, design, and digital drama in the most impeccably tailored way.

There I was, about to close a website — decision made, exit planned — when suddenly the “leave” button felt harder to find than last season’s it-bag. The “accept all”? Front row, spotlight, impossible to miss. And I couldn’t help but wonder… when did our choices stop being ours, and start being styled for us?

In this episode of Data & The City, we slip into the perfectly cut world of dark patterns — where design doesn’t just guide, it nudges, frames, and sometimes quietly decides. From shopping carts that fill themselves to subscriptions that cling like a bad ex, to interfaces that feel effortless but are anything but… this is your chic survival guide to spotting the seams behind the screen.

This episode’s chapters:
🧵 Dark Patterns Unstitched — From roach motels to confirmshaming and basket sneaking, we unravel the subtle design tricks shaping your choices every day.
🎙️ Behind the Seams with Dr. Mark Leiser — We sit down with a leading expert on deceptive design to explore how dark patterns go deeper than the interface — and what that means for your autonomy online.
👠 The Algorithm Wears Prada — From streaks to shopping and everything in between, we explore how design, psychology, and business models come together to keep you clicking — and what you can do to take back control.

✨ Whether you’re a privacy enthusiast, policymaker, or just someone who’s ever wondered why “decline” feels so hard to find… this episode is for you.

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🚨 New Episode Drop! 🚨

Our latest episode Doomscroll Patrol has officially landed — and data darling, it’s serving addictive design, legal couture, and a reality check we didn’t know we needed.

There I was, settling in for a quiet night — one screen, one story, one intention — when suddenly I was three scrolls deep, five apps in, and completely detached from where I started. And I couldn’t help but wonder… when did our attention become something we try on… only to realise it was never really ours?

In this episode of Data & The City, we step onto the digital runway of addictive design — where infinite scrolls feel like seamless silhouettes, notifications act like statement accessories, and algorithms dress our feeds better than we dress ourselves. From the rules trying to reshape the system to the psychology keeping us hooked, this episode is your chic survival guide to reclaiming your attention — with style.

This episode’s chapters:
🧵 Doomscroll Patrol — From infinite scroll to autoplay, we break down the design features that keep you hooked — and how the Digital Services Act and Digital Fairness Act are trying to tailor them back into shape.
🎙️ Behind the Seams with Gianclaudio Malgieri — We step into Leiden for a conversation on digital vulnerability, addictive design, and what happens when platforms start shaping not just our data… but our decisions.
📉 The Ultimate Power Move — From courtrooms to coping mechanisms, we explore the real-world consequences of addictive design — and how to take back control of your digital wardrobe.

We’re also gearing up for Spin for Life — participating in a 3-hour spinning marathon to raise awareness and funds for groundbreaking cancer research 💖 If you’d like to support, you can donate via this link: https://www.fightcancer.nl/fundraisers/jennifercrama until 16/04/2026.  

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🚨 New Episode Drop! 🚨
Our latest episode AI Think, Therefore AI Am has officially landed — and trust me, it’s serving digital drama, emotional couture, and privacy wisdom all in one fabulously wrapped package.

There I was, refreshing my digital life the same way I refresh my wardrobe each season — editing, refining, asking what still fits — when I realised something: we now share the most delicate fabrics of our inner world with systems that can’t tell the difference between satin and synthetics. And I couldn’t help but wonder… in a world where algorithms listen closer than people, AI think… therefore AI am isn’t just a title — it’s the reality we’re stepping into.

So in this new episode of Data & The City, we swap street style for cyber-couture and walk the runway straight into the world of mental-health data, digital vulnerability, and AI stepping into roles it was never quite tailored for. From the intimate details people reveal as casually as outfit notes in a dressing room, to the Odido data breach that sent secrets tumbling off the runway, to AI tools offering emotional comfort with the cool confidence of a therapist in a sculpted blazer — this episode is your chic survival guide to navigating emotional tech with elegance, boundaries, and couture-level self-respect.

In this episode:
💙 Blue Data — The deeply personal things we reveal to mental-health apps, and the GDPR protections meant to keep your emotional world stitched up safely.
💥 Breach, Blame, Boom: Odido Unzipped with I-Chu Chao — The Odido data breach, undone seam by seam with legal powerhouse I-Chu Chao. What happened, what leaked, and what every consumer needs to know.
🧠AI Think, Therefore AI Am — A deep dive into the rise of mental-health AI, why we pour our hearts into chatbots, and how to protect your inner couture when technology feels a little too close for comfort.

🎧 Subscribe, share, and keep us in your ears — your data deserves nothing less than VIP treatment.

❤️ Mental Health Disclaimer: If you’re struggling or feel unsafe, please reach out to a qualified mental-health professional or a local crisis hotline.
AI tools — and podcasts — can support you, but they can’t replace real human care.
You deserve help, safety, and compassion. 

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✨ New Year, New Me: EDPS’s DPD Conference Reset or Refine✨
New Year, New Me?

More like New Year, New Digital Decade — and Data & The City was there to catch every stylish step of the EDPS Data Protection Day conference: Reset or Refine. Recorded live between panels, coffee breaks, and those whispered corridor conversations that always carry the best insights, this episode unwraps the ideas shaping Europe’s data future — with wit, sparkle, and a DATC twist.

Featured in our episode:
💼 The Power of Purpose: Why Your Data Needs a Meaningful Makeover
on the role of purpose limitation and why clarity is the new couture with Wojciech Wiewiórowski.

🔍 Unmasking Identity: When Pseudonymisation Still Feels Personal
on SRB, data minimisation, and the  moments when “de-identified” still means you with Anna Berlee.

📜 Heritage Chic: The Timeless Style of Convention 108+
on why long-standing international standards still define the silhouette of modern privacy with Peter Kimpian.

🍪 Crumbs, Clues & Consent: A Cookie Law Glow-Up
on cookie banners, tracking, and designing consent that actually fits with Dr. Cristiana Santos

⚖️ Red Tape or Runway Edit? Rethinking Reform Without Losing the Look
on data protection reform, simplification, and why rights should never be cut on the bias with Augustin Reyna

🎧 Reset or Refine: a tour of the conference
Come with us on a tour of the conference.

rom couture metaphors to regulatory makeovers, this episode explores what happens when privacy policy meets its annual style review — and the question on everyone’s lips becomes:
Is Europe heading for a full digital reset… or just the chicest refine of the decade?

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✨🎄 New Episode Drop: All I Want For Christmas 🎄✨

There I was, wrapping gifts with one hand and clearing cookie banners with the other, when it hit me: nothing says holiday season quite like festive shopping… and a little too much data magic behind the scenes. And I couldn’t help but wonder — when algorithms know our wish lists better than we do, who’s really doing the gift-giving?

In the latest episode of Data & The City, we swap mistletoe for metadata and take a glamorous stroll through Christmas shopping in the age of profiling, automated decision-making, and AI-powered persuasion. From the ads that follow you like a festive carol to the rights that let you say “human says no”, this episode is your chic survival guide for a data-savvy holiday season.

🎁 This episode’s chapters:
🛷 Sleigh My Data Darling — How profiling and automated decision-making shape what you see, buy, and believe during the holidays.
🔐 Encrypted Answers — Your festive listener questions, unwrapped with love (and a touch of GDPR).
🎄 All I Want For Christmas — The data protection news that could impact how you shop, click, and consent this season.

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So grab your coziest sweater 🧶, your sharpest “reject all” finger 🍪, and a glass of something sparkling 🥂 — because privacy is the ultimate stocking stuffer.

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✨ New Episode Drop: Human Says No ✨

There I was, wandering through my apartment with a half-finished matcha and yet another “your privacy matters to us” popup flashing across my screen, when it hit me: in 2025, everyone is trying to automate, accelerate, streamline — and now the European Commission is even tailoring a whole Digital Omnibus to “simplify” the rules. But in a world rushing to make everything automatic, the boldest, chicest, most rebellious thing we can do… is simply say no. Because darling, sometimes the most glamorous button on the internet isn’t “accept all” — it’s decline.

In this episode of Data & The City, we tighten the belt on our statement trench and step onto the runway of Human Says No — where GDPR meets human-centric design, the Digital Decade meets real users, and the AI Act tries to keep up with a public demanding transparency with a side of respect.

💼 In this episode:
👠 Rights, Romance & the Digital Decade: A stylish stroll through the history of the GDPR, your full wardrobe of rights, and why human-centric design is the new luxury standard.
👠 And Just Like That… the Digital Omnibus Arrived: A sharp, chic conversation with Julian Flamant, diving into the Commission’s attempt to “declutter” EU digital law.
👠 Human Says No: The grand finale — algorithmic overreach, consumer protection scandals, AI Act realities, and how to wield your rights like the power accessories they are.

So switch your phone to “Do Not Disturb” 📵, sharpen your rights-request pen ✒️, and hit play — because the future may be automated, but your choices never should be.

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🕸️✨ Et voilà, data darlings — the witching hour has arrived, and the runway just turned regulatory!

uEver wondered what it’s really like to be a Data Protection Officer in 2025? Picture it: haunted inboxes, restless regulations, and the occasional GDPR ghost that refuses to stay buried 🧛‍♀️.

In our latest episode of Data & The City: The DPO Horror Show, we light the compliance candles, dust off our finest black blazers, and summon some of the fiercest privacy minds to share tales from the dark side of data protection.

🎭 Chapters:
🧛 Wickedly Compliant: The Modern DPOs curse — independence can be such a scream 💅
👻 The DPO Horror Show — what it means to be a DPO in 2025, a panel of experts featuring Amanda-Cuns-Gonzalo, Alvaro Cobian, Larisa Munteanu, Nikos Papadopoulos, Lucas Noronha, Stephanie Rosello, Helena Stohr and Mariska Olink

Expect eerie insights, hauntingly chic compliance lessons 💼, and a few tricks (and treats 🍬) for keeping your independence intact when the compliance ghouls come knocking. 

And for our spooky accessories of the season:
🧩 Puzzling Privacy 2: The Halloween Edition — a frightfully fun privacy activity book to keep your brain stylish and compliant.
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So grab your pumpkin-spiced latte 🎃, your most dramatic cape 🧥, and hit play — because in this city, the scariest thing isn’t a ghost in the machine… it’s bad data fashion. 💋

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✨ New Episode Drop: Atelier Data Protection ✨

There I was, sipping a Blue Butterfly Iced Tea surrounded by startup dreamers and code warriors in my local tea shop, when it hit me: in the digital age, privacy isn’t an accessory—it’s the fabric. And darling, if trust is the ultimate luxury, then Privacy by Design is the little black dress every product needs.

In this episode of Data & The City, we strut down the runway of the Atelier Data Protection - from GDPR’s timeless principles to the AI Act’s bold new stitches.

We talk pseudonymization, anonymization, explainability, and why “Move Fast & Break Things” sometimes looks less couture and more clearance rack. 

💼 In this episode:
👠 Atelier Data Protection: How GDPR & AI Act principles should shape products from sketch to launch.
👠 Crystal Clear: Interview with Christos Makris: Transparency and explainability—turning black-box AI into your most trustworthy accessory.
👠 Tailored to Trust: Real-world scandals, lessons learned, and why Privacy by Design is always in style.

So grab your sketchbook 📝, your pseudonymizing sunglasses 🕶️, and your martini shaker 🍸—because privacy isn’t just a regulation, it’s a lifestyle.

If you haven’t yet, check out my puzzle book Puzzling Privacy—because privacy doesn’t always have to be policy briefs and legalese, it can be playful too. 🧩✨ 

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💳✨ New Episode Drop: Pay to Play ✨🍸

Once upon a timeline, the internet looked free—like a never-ending sample sale where every scroll felt like a steal. But now? Every cookie banner feels like a velvet rope. Consent or Pay. Pay or Okay. Your money or your data. And just like that… privacy became the hottest accessory with a price tag. In this week’s episode of Data & The City, we unpack the drama in three fashionable chapters:

👠 Pay to Play: a deepdive into how we got to consent or pay
☕ Coffee & Consent: an interview with Lucas Noronha
💼 Greed is Good: The current state of Consent or Pay

So grab your oat milk latte, your sharpest cookie-banner-clicking finger 🍪, and tune in—because when it comes to your privacy, darling, the choices aren’t just personal… they’re political, profitable, and oh-so-provocative.

🧩 And if you can’t get enough? Check out our brand-new activity book Puzzling Privacy—where crossword clues meet cookie banners and sudoku collides with Schrems. Who says data protection can’t be fun and fabulous?
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✨ Episode 11: Thank You for Flying Big Brother Airlines ✨

Data darlings, your flight may be short, but your data? It’s flying first class around the globe, leaving a trail of secrets in every airport lounge. In this sizzling Data & The City episode, we dive into the world of Passenger Name Records (PNR)—where every trip tells a story, and not all of them have a happy landing. From wrongful suspicions to courtroom showdowns, this is travel with a twist.

👠 Boarding Pass Chapters:

✈️ Thank You For Flying Big Brother Airlines – how your travel data became the ultimate surveillance tool.
🔐 Encrypted Answers – your questions, answered at cruising altitude.
🤯 Profiles Gone Wrong – when algorithms misread your itinerary and chaos follows.

📌 Special Announcement! 🧩 We’re dropping something fabulous soon—Puzzling Privacy, our very own activity book! Packed with crosswords, word searches, and puzzles to keep your brain (and your privacy skills) sharp.

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