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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. Topics include the Vermont Privacy Act veto heard around the world, updates in the European Parliament, the Digital Advertising Alliance webchoices 2.0, a joint investigation by the UK and Canada into the 23andMe breach, Clearview AI’s settlement proposal, noyb’s complaint against Google for its privacy sandbox, the Apple Intelligence announcement, Hong Kong’s guide on AI, the US Supreme Court’s acceptance to hear the Meta case, the EDPB’s new deputy chair, and discussion about learning AI, strategy, and seeking AIGP certification by IAPP, including the AIGP Body of Knowledge. Tune in for some living, learning, and laughing.

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This week Paul and K are both travelling, so the recording was slightly more complex then usual. While K was in Arizone for the State Bar of Arizona 2024 Convention, Paul was in London for the inaugural edition of Legal Tech Talk. We bring you the highlights of both events, as well as some headlines of what has been happening in the world of privacy and data protection this week. 

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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 shoshana rosenberg. the California Privacy Protection Agency's hearing is set for June 21st in the Superior Court of California, Maryland also signed in two significant measures for online data protection. The Maryland kids code. the Nordic data protection authorities ado

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In this 200th episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal (our views are our own and do not reflect the views of our employers) are joined by honorary co-host Ralph O'Brien, as well as Marie Penot to celebrate 4,5 years of podcasting. The four look back on what surprised and disappointed them these past year, but also talk about some current developments, including a Cypriot investigation into P*rnhub's data protection practices, the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill being killed by a snap election, and the forthcoming Global Privacy Assembly in Jersey.

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On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal (our views are our own and do not reflect the views of our employers) connect with Irith Kist, the Data Protection Officer at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, also a member of the Data Protection Advisory Commission of the City of Amsterdam. However, she is also a health data researcher herself, and on the 5th of June, she will defend her dissertation at Leiden University called A Fair Balance.

This is a topic we love to discuss – health data and how sharing it is important for the advancement of medicine and health treatment, but the disparities on how data is treated globally is not ideal for research purposes.

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On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss a holy week in privacy where the V’s took front page - the Vatican issued a privacy decree and Vermont is trying to pass a strong privacy law and a coalition of state Attorneys General signed a letter imploring Congress not to preempt their privacy laws. In addition, CO AI bill is in front of the governor, Maryland passed a kids code, Google and Apple is hosting their annual developers conference, the U.S. Senate Bipartisan AI Working Group released their roadmap, the spring conference of the European Data Protection Authorities in Latvia, and updates to the Cyber Security agency of Singapore, the CSA.

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On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal discuss a hot week in privacy! Topics include the amendment of Colorado’s privacy act to include protecting children, CT’s AI bill did not pass, but the TikTok bill was rolled not a foreign aid bill. ByteDance is ordered to divest themselves of TikTok by January 19, 2025 with the allowance for a 90 days extension. But Bytedance has already filed a suit in the DC Court of Appeals and no matter what the outcome is, it will likely be appealed to the US Supreme Court - so regardless of constitutional arguments, it likely won’t see action as long as it moves through the court system. Germany appointed a new data protection commissioner. We also discussed Global CBPRs and BCRs - along with guidance from the CNIL on BCRs. There was developments about the EU Council approved a protocol for the freeflow of data in Japan and in Kenya, there was also a big privacy event because the Pan African Network of Data Protection Authorities held their annual general meeting and as part of that event Kenya's cabinet secretary for ICT and digital economy called for digital sovereignty and data governance in Africa.

A lot happened this week and this only scrapes the surface!

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On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of discuss a fundamental part of a successful privacy / data protection program - data inventories or mapping - records of processing activities. We also switched it up on you a little... Paul asks his very first unexpected question.

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On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company had a few major developments to discuss, such as the ban or forced sale of TikTok (which was signed as we were talking), the EDPB opinion on Meta’s consent or pay model, a final rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights on privacy of reproductive rights, Nebraska’s privacy law, and more.

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On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Crawford & Company connect after the IAPP #GPS24 to discuss the US privacy bill being proposed - the American Privacy Rights Act. Join us as we discuss pros and cons along with a little news on #TikTok ban (or not). Good resources on #APRA found at IAPP cheatsheet and here with a section-by-section breakdown.

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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.