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July 11, 2025 250 episodes?! Let's celebrate!
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Please join us for our 250th episode, celebrating 5 and a half years of privacy, data protection, cyber law education and hot topics with hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal.

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38 min
July 02, 2025 Vermont for Kids! and lots of other cool privacy things
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On this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal connect with the Honorable Monique Priestley, Vermont Representative (website https://moniqueforvermont.com/). The topic - the Age Appropriate Design Code Act (VAADCA) just passed!

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38 min
June 26, 2025 Almost too much to Handle - Week in privacy
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On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting, and Dr. K Royal connect on a week in privacy - almost too much to cover, so it’s a little long. Mainly we talk about the UK Data Use and Access Bill, the third extension of TikTok’s required sale, Meta deploying ads to Whatsapp, and noyb suing two data protection authorities over delayed investigation and enforcement. Lastly, big shoutout to Alexander White in his new appointment as Queensland’s new privacy commissioner.

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42 min
June 18, 2025 Data Makes the World Go Round (with Noël Luke)
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It's been a while since we last talked about cross-border data transfers, but that does not mean that all issues have resolved themselves. And while the focus may still largely be on the EU-US relations for data transfers, the core developments actually relate to the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules.
Therefore, on this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting, and Dr. K Royal connect with Noël Luke, chief assurance officer at TrustArc. She joined TrustArc in 2015 and is responsible for overseeing and enhancing TrustArc’s robust assurance programs, which include certifications under the Global and APEC cross-border privacy rules, as well as verifications under the respective Data Privacy Frameworks between the US and the EU, UK and Switzerland.

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35 min
June 13, 2025 A doozy of a week in Privacy
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On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth is away so Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting, and Dr. K Royal bring you a full docket of privacy news. And it is a doozy of a week!

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32 min
June 05, 2025 A strong week in Privacy
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On this week of #SeriousPrivacy, Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O'Brien catch up on recent activity in the world of purveyors, data protection, and cyber law.

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39 min
May 31, 2025 The State of Digital (with Akhi Srivastava)
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On this week of Serious Privavy, Paul, Ralph, and Dr. K catch up with Akhi Srivastava, an experienced tech leader to discuss strategy and state of the digital world (as himself and not as any of the company's he's worked for then it now).

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30 min
May 22, 2025 Retro Week in Privacy - So much to Cover!
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On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, and Dr. K Royal (Ralph O’Brien was traveling), we cover a wild wrap up of privacy activities, including Tom Kemp as the newly appointed head of the California Consumer Privacy Protection Agency, and a wide sweep of enforcement actions including Roku, Honda Motor Company, National Public Data, Tom Snyder, plus class actions against Insomnia and Pill Pack, and a reprimand sent to Deep Seek,
IAPP’s state privacy law tracker update, California is seeking public feedback on proposed regulations for the delete request and opt-out platform - the DROP system, CNIL’s guidance on monitoring self-checkouts, and Meta’s request for a court to invalidate the EDPB guidance (can’t do it, it’s not a law) and Belgium’s new law plus quite a bit more. We are packed with news.
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35 min
May 14, 2025 Indescribably Intuitive: Indigenous Privacy
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On this episode of @SeriousPrivacy, hosts Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal (Ralph wasn' able to join us in DC) catch up with Tahu Kukutai, Professor, The University of Waikato; Jade Makory, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP, Legal and Advocacy Director, Data Analytics Kenya, and Privacy Expert, PwC (on Sabbatical); and Shana Morgan, AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, Global Head of AI / Privacy, L3Harris Technologies - just after the first IAPP panel on indigenous privacy at GPS25 (moderated by Shoshana Rosenberg). Fabulous and enlightening.

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39 min
May 08, 2025A week in privacy with Ralph and K
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On this week of Serious Privacy, Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting, and Dr. K Royal connect to cover a week in privacy as Paul Breitbarth is away. This weeks shorter episode includes a guide to what’s coming up from Serious Privacy at IAPP summit in DC, a penalty from the UK ICO, EDPB draft Guidance on blockchain, state laws, enforcement actions, and more!
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Some resources
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2025/04/law-firm-fined-60-000-following-cyber-attack/
https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2025/edpb-adopts-guidelines-processing-personal-data-through-blockchains-and-ready_en
https://iapp.org/resources/article/us-state-privacy-legislation-tracker/#state-privacy-law-chart

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!
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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.
24 min

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