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06.23.2024

#61: Are you a controller or processor?... Well it’s complicated

Prepare to get your mind blown (and not necessarily in a good way) - in this episode Laura, Floora, Pilvi, Milla and Hannes (what a full house!) discuss the theory and practice behind data processing roles. What is the background...

06.10.2024

#60: Microtargeting on EU Elections 2024 and the new regulation with Norman Aasma

Cambridge Analytica, Brexit, Trump, Russian Trolls. Political microtargeting has shaped the world and our society more and longer than we would like to admit. The European Union decided to fight back on it with Regulation on the transparency and targeting...

05.15.2024

#59: Joost’s Case Corner and failed attempts to stop giggling

“Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! To PrivacyPod Joost’s Case Corner Episode, we are your hosts Milla and Pilvi with Joost Kle… Gerritsen. Thank you so much for joining us and let us begin with our first and most important story, the events...

05.11.2024

#58: Crash Course on Cyber

We’re so glad to geek out on something a bit different this week, as we welcome Natallia Karniyevich to discuss all things cyber with our hosts Hannes Saarinen and Milla Keller. Natallia is a senior associate at Bird & Bird,...

04.24.2024

#57: Cheatin on GDPR and Joost Case Corner

We have good news and bad news. Good news are, we are returning with Joost’s Case Corner, so expect lots of CJEU goodness from this episode. Bad news are, we get pretty distracted by other (equally important) topics before actually...

04.20.2024

#56: Is your brain a filing system?

Laura and Panu are joined by Otto Lindholm to discuss recent CJEU case related to Finnish transparency laws and disclosing criminal conviction data via telephone. What is the Finnish tradition of transparency of official documents really about, are we now losing...

04.12.2024

#55: We dare you to find any privacy from this episode because its EUROVISION special!

It’s been a heavy spring. So many new things are coming to privacy folk’s way, the world is (literally) shaking, we are killing our one planet, old men are driving the world to turmoil and horror. The world is getting...

03.30.2024

#54: A Shakespearean Battle About Transparency

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend us your ears! We’ve come to discuss if transparency matters, not to bury it. The insufficient privacy decisions that men do lives after them; The efforts for better privacy is oft interred with their business minded...

03.22.2024

#53: ECJ does not get Nordics, TikTok "ban" and AI Act approved

It’s about time you fell in love with something that will love you back, and that, our friends, is the crossroad of privacy, government openness, and freedom of speech. It doesn’t judge you, and we won’t either. The European Court...

03.12.2024

#52: DMA Doomsday

In this episode Milla, Pilvi, and Jyri try to save their faces after the Episode #51 meltdown only to discover that they are forever changed by that experience. Just when we brace ourselves to move forward like “a granny in...

02.20.2024

#51: Who cares about the recitals?!

We started this episode with so much enthusiasm, positivity, and excitement but we ended up thinking that this is the episode we wish to exercise our right to be forgotten on. We start with the Google case on, you guessed...

02.03.2024

#50: In the room where the AI Act happened with Dan Nechita

Take a tight grip on your cups listeners, because today we are spilling the hottest tea of the legal world, a behind the scenes story of the AI Act. We delve into this with a person who had the front...

01.28.2024

#49: How to Comply with Data Subject Requests Before They Sue You

A new year of PrivacyPod is kicked off with an episode covering the hottest topics and most intriguing privacy news so far! Hosted by Milla and Laura, in this show our privacy DSARs speculate what the actual is up with...

12.12.2023

#48: Bot's Got Your Back: Using AI in privacy work

In this week’s episode Milla discusses with Gabriel Silva from TravelPerk the best practices for using AI to enhance your work as a privacy professional. TravelPerk has recently started using a custom-built Legal Bot, which crunches through hundreds of privacy...

11.25.2023

#47: Clarifying the Cookie rules, Twenty years too late

This week on PrivacyPod: EDPB’s guidelines on the infamous cookie article! EDPB published a couple of weeks back guidelines on the technical scope of Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive (also known as the golden rule… no, sorry, the cookie...

11.11.2023

#46: Meta ban: Norwegian DPA taking Meta for a walk, with Tobias Judin

In this awaited and exciting episode Milla and Pilvi are experiencing a true fangirl moment as they welcome Tobias Judin, the Head of International Department at the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, Datatilsynet. Accompanied by our new co-host Jyri they will...

11.04.2023

#45: The one with the Legal Gymnastics

In this news episode, Milla and Pilvi jump into the most interesting news (in their opinion at least) of the recent weeks and that takes us to a journey that will include Googling, Star Wars, elderly millennials trying to exists...

10.26.2023

#44: Data Act - Your data is someone else’s oil

In this episode, Hannes and Milla welcome Jussi Leppälä, the of Valmet (a leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries) to delve into the interesting world of IoT -based data...

10.15.2023

#43: Consent or money!

Meta is considering a move to cookie-paywall some listeners may know (and already hate) from German newspaper websites. As the legal basis for Meta’s personalised ads (the company’s main money-maker) is being pushed towards consent from all fronts, Meta is...

09.29.2023

#42: Privacy M&A Unmasked

In this episode, join Pilvi, Hannes, and Floora as they take a deep dive into the world of Mergers and Acquisitions (commonly known as M&A;) from a privacy perspective. They'll explore the intriguing question of whether the M&A; process differs...

09.17.2023

#41: JCC: Abbreviations confuse elderly millennials as we look into latest CJEU cases

Joost Case Corner (JCC) is back! As per usual, there’s no way we will cover all of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) goodness in under one hour, so buckle up for an extra-long special episode. Its...

09.03.2023

#40: Nordic Cookie Special

This week Pilvi and Milla do a deep dive into two recent cookie related rulings from Nordic data protection authorities. First we discuss the Bonnier case from IMY, the Swedish data protection authority. Whilst not strictly only about cookies, this...

08.20.2023

#39: Algorithmic Transparency at Wolt

This week we are fangirling over Wolt’s approach to algorithmic transparency. We have Wolt’s public policy manager Ylwa Rein join us for this episode, where we walk through the process of creating an algorithmic transparency report: what’s the legal background...

08.10.2023

#38: Privacy Trampoline is online, Google Analytics, and identity crisis

In this episode, Milla and Pilvi take a look at the brand new Data Privacy Framework. The discussions include but you bet are not limited to topics such as the sadly-not-so-funky-name of the framework (why not Privacy Trampoline?) and the...

06.20.2023

#37: Exploring Landmark Privacy Cases with Professor Herke Kranenborg

In this episode of PrivacyPod, Joost and Panu talk to professor Herke Kranenborg who holds a chair in European Data Protection and Privacy Law at Maastricht University. In addition, professor Kranenborg is a member of the European Commission's Legal Service, which...

06.07.2023

#36: Meta is not fine with transfers and gets a mega fine plus some finger-licking privacy

In this episode, Milla, Pilvi, and Panu take a look at the Meta case on the US transfers that ended up costing Meta 1.2 billion euros. We explore the depths of the case, such as how Meta justified their transfers,...

04.28.2023

#35: Confused Elderly Millennials Exploring AI

In this week’s episode Floora, Milla and our guest host Joost discuss how to look at AI through the lenses of privacy and data protection. With so much hype around the topic, we go through the most important developments in...

04.11.2023

#34: Will the never ending story of ePrivacy finally end?

In this episode of PrivacyPod with Anja Wyrobek, a Legal Policy Advisor and European Parliament, we will dive into lengthy development of ePrivacy Regulation, its impact on cookies (one may not forget cookies), encryption and impact of combat against child sexual...

03.31.2023

#33: Crossing the Privacy Pond with Odia Kagan

This week we discuss everything around U.S. privacy with a special guest, Odia Kagan! Odia is a Partner and Chair of GDPR Compliance and International Privacy at Fox Rothschild, a US-based law firm with 29 offices across the United States....

02.15.2023

#32: Light at the end of Dark Patterns

Have you ever felt bad about clicking ”decline all” on a cookie consent? Has that button been difficult to find? And if you finally find it, has the website spawned a pop up message trying to tell you how they...

02.02.2023

#31: Unwrapping the Irish DPA’s Meta-rulings with a NOYB-insider

This week, we talk with Romain Robert, a Program Director and a senior lawyer working at NOYB. For the few who might not know, NOYB is a Austrian NGO founded by Max Schrems, who is probably a familiar name to...

01.25.2023

#30: Joost Case Corner - GDPR just might not rule everything

And we are back once again with Joosts Case Corner! This time we dive deep into the past, present and future of the Court of Justice of the European Union with upcoming cases as well as latest judgments. Panu and...

01.20.2023

#29 The 2022 Quiz and predictions for 2023

We start this year of PrivacyPod with a recap of recaps of year 2022. Milla and Hannes Saarinen (from our Finnish podcast) go head-to-head on a quirky quiz drawn up by Panu. I have a bad feeling about this. Milla...

11.25.2022

#28: Make Risk-Based Approach Great Again with Eduardo Ustaran

There's no such thing as too much talk about Schrems II, right? Tune in for our talk with the absolute expert on this topic, Eduardo Ustaran. We discuss the current state of international data transfers and when we can expect...

10.27.2022

PrivacyPod #27: Don't Get Your Hopes Up

Time for another Case Corner with Joost Gerritsen! What's been cooking in the CJEU, you ask? We're here to tell you! In this extra-long episode we discuss Digi, concerning the use of personal data in testing environments and whether that...

10.21.2022

PrivacyPod #26: Press Play to accept these terms

In this episode, Milla and Pilvi are pressing play on their inner gamers as today's guest, Jussi Honkasalo, Senior Legal Counsel and DPO at Rovio (the home of the legendary Angry Birds), gives us a let's play tour around the...

09.29.2022

PrivacyPod #25: Adtech sense with Peter Hense

This week we discuss the latest developments in ad tech privacy with Peter Hense. Peter is a partner at Spirit Legal, where he specializes in data privacy litigation, particularly in the area of advertising technology. In this episode we cover...

08.24.2022

PrivacyPod #24: TikTok Knows What You Did Last Summer

We're back from our summer break! This week on the podcast we discuss privacy and security issues in in-app browsers. Many apps do some tracking, but TikTok seems to win the price this time around on being the most intrusive...

05.25.2022

PrivacyPod #23: Technology Ethics with Stephanie Hare

Dear listeners - technology is not neutral. That's the premise of the book from our this week's guest, Stephanie Hare. In this episode, Stephanie shares with us her insights on technology ethics. Sure, privacy is an important part of...

05.20.2022

PrivacyPod #22: Pro-FOMO Strikes Back

You know what the title means - we have Joost Gerritsen back on board with us! What we intend to be a regular section on the podcast, we delve again into the intricacies of CJEU case law. On the menu this...

04.27.2022

PrivacyPod #21: Outrageous!

In this week's episode, be prepared to experience moral outrage on so many fronts. We cover the Verisure scandal from Sweden with employees snooping on security camera footage, another big fine from the Netherlands and lots more. Also in this...

03.29.2022

PrivacyPod #20: Hot Takes on Privacy Shield 2.0

We have a new data transfer deal between the EU and the US! In principle. What does the announcement of an agreement “in principle” mean, when can we expect an actual deal, and what does this mean for transfers of...

03.23.2022

TietosuojaPod #35: Vieraana Reijo Aarnio

"Pörssikursseja ei saa manipuloida, mutta ihmisiä saa." Reijo Aarno. Mies, myytti, leganda. Reijo on varmasti jokaiselle suomalaiselle tietosuojasta kiinnostuneelle tuttu nimi, eikä ihme: 23 vuotta tietosuojavaltuutettuna taitaa olla Euroopan ennätys. Suomessa on tietosuojaihmisiä, jotka ovat syntyneet, valmistuneet ja työskennelleet alalla...

03.17.2022

PrivacyPod #19: Pro-FOMO, with Joost Gerritsen

This week we discuss the upcoming privacy cases in the highest court of the EU, and have an amazing guest with us for this purpose, Joost Gerritsen! Beware listeners, this episode is probably our nerdiest (and longest, since Milla doesnt...

02.27.2022

PrivacyPod #18: Talking IAB TCF decision with Panoptykon’s Karolina Iwańska

This week’s guest star is Karolina Iwańska, who works as a lawyer and researcher at Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish NGO fighting for freedom and privacy in the digital age. Panoptykon was one of the organizations bringing the IAB TCF case...

02.02.2022

PrivacyPod #17: The Perils of Online Tracking with Arnold Roosendaal

This week we discuss the broader implications of online tracking with Arnold Roosendaal, who works as a director at Privacy Company in the Netherlands. Roosendaal showed the world in 2011 how Facebook Like button is used across the internet to...

01.20.2022

PrivacyPod #16: First decisions against Google Analytics

We hope everyone had relaxing holidays, because the year has not started slow in the world of privacy! In this week’s episode we talk about all the development around Google Analytics and the GDPR – the Austrian DPA being the...

11.10.2021

PrivacyPod #15: Easy On IAB Transparency and Consent Framework

New episode out! This week we discuss the much awaited decision from the Dutch data protection authority on the lawfulness of the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework – or at least the bits of the draft decision that have reached...

09.28.2021

PrivacyPod #14: Ransomware Access Memories with Quentyn Taylor

Ransomware is an ever growing issue in the world of cyber security and privacy. More and more organisations face severe repercussions on malicious attacks by different professional groups. In this episode we take a bit of a side step and discuss ransomware attacks with an absolute legend, Quentyn Taylor, Head of Information Security at Canon...

09.21.2021

PrivacyPod #13: Ready Or Not Here the New SCCs Come

You can sigh in relief, the past week was slower on privacy news front and we did our best to keep it short! We continue the discussion on Facebook View glasses as the news came last week from both the...