Jodi Daniels, CEO of Red Clover Advisors and Justin Daniels, cybersecurity expert, join Dominique and David to discuss why businesses are still not deliberate in designing privacy and security practices and how we can change our mindset to prioritize them. Jodi explores why data collection, usage, storage, and protection are the foundation of companies' continued business online and what happens when small companies do not understand their security responsibilities. The pair also share why they started their podcast “She Said Security/He Said Privacy in 2020” and how they provide informed coverage of privacy and security law developments.

Vineet Singal, co-founder and CEO of CareMessage, a messaging platform for health safety net organizations, joins Dominique and David to share why he created CareMessage out of his original work in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. He talks about why he turned down a scholarship to medical school to continue this work, and why he is so passionate about helping underserved populations manage their conditions and take responsibility for their health. Vineet describes how CareMessage grew from a Stanford undergraduate project to become the largest patient engagement program in the United States and discusses the types of data held by CareMessage and other healthcare clinics, as well how as how they ensure their HIPAA compliance. Vineet also explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has been a critical component of CareMessage’s growth in ways he could not have anticipated when he started the company in 2012.

Daniella Ballou-Aares, CEO & Co-Founder of the Leadership Now Project and a Senior Advisor at Dalberg, joins David to discuss how corporate CEOs and corporations are taking direct action to support voting rights and how they are looking for an innovative model of sustained and strategic engagement to fix democracy. Most importantly, Daniella identifies with precision and clarity why measuring big data is important in preserving democracy, how supporting voting rights and a sustained democracy serves the interests of corporations and their shareholders, and why private sector leadership in this area is important, not only for democratic principles but for the long term interests of shareholders and business success.

Devin Banerjee, editor at large at LinkedIn News, joins Dominique and David to share his passion for business journalism. He discusses how writing business articles and updates for a social media company differs from more traditional publications where writers do not receive instantaneous feedback. He addresses C-suite awareness of the importance of cybersecurity and the damage that ransomware wreaks on an organization. Devin also dives into how LinkedIn identifies influential and high-quality contributors in different industries and brings them into the conversation on the platform.

Nishant Bhajaria, head of technical privacy and governance at Uber, joins David and Dominique to discuss how he has helped companies focus on data privacy. He outlines reputational risk versus better data and governance and why protecting data leads to better products, a more intelligent workforce, and a more engaged customer. They discuss why the amount of data being exchanged by companies and customers today is unlike any we've seen before and how transparency to consumers and enhanced data privacy is critical for a company to thrive. Nishant also shares how his newest book, Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers, is the first leading text for engineers on how to design, develop, and measure the effectiveness of privacy programs.

Ben Strick, director of investigations for the Centre for Information Resilience and Myanmar Witness, joins David Biderman and Dominique Shelton Leipzig to share how his team uses investigative techniques to document and expose human rights violations, identify perpetrators and victims, and assist social justice groups from Myanmar to Cameroon and around the globe. He describes why this process serves as a way of holding a mirror to society and forcing us to take responsibility for the hate and violence in the world. Ben also explains how the open source investigative community deals with privacy and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation, particularly when using photographs.

Dr. James Xie, a clinical informatics physician (CI-MD) and Epic physician builder at Stanford Children's Health, joins David and Dominique to discuss how his education in computer science and work with children who had special healthcare needs inspired him to move into medicine. We also cover how James’ healthcare work intersects with the Decrypted Unscripted mission of unpacking and understanding data security issues, and James dives into how the 21st Century Cures Act is trying to promote healthcare information exchange and interoperability.

Professor Martin Innes, director of the Crime and Security Research Institute at Cardiff University, joins Dominique and David to share how he and his team have documented the infiltration of high-profile Western media outlets by pro-Kremlin Russian hackers and trolls and his research into hacking connected with the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. He also describes how they use data science pattern recognition and detection techniques to track disinformation campaigns. Professor Innes addresses his investigation of terrorist attacks in London and the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England, and how this prompted his wider investigation interest in Russian disinformation in the mainstream media.

Dr. Johnny Ryan joins David and Dominique to discuss why, from his perspective, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe should have been one of the most important global privacy laws in the world—but is falling woefully short of his expectations. He explores the current problems around advertising technology, privacy, and tracking and how he sees the future of digital advertising security. Dr. Ryan also dives into the privacy litigation being brought about by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL).

Dr. Ryan is a senior fellow at the ICCL and the Open Markets Institute. He focuses on surveillance, data rights, competition/anti-trust, and privacy. Dr. Ryan is former chief policy and industry relations officer at Brave, the private web browser, and led Brave’s campaign for GDPR enforcement. His other previous roles included chief innovation officer of The Irish Times and senior researcher at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA).

Jorge Contreras, professor of property law and genetics at the University of Utah, joins Dominique and David to describe his latest book, The Genome Defense. The book reads like a detective novel as he follows American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyers who, after years of litigation, convince the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn prior decisions, ruling that naturally occurring genetic code was patentable. This is a great discussion about who owns a person's genetic information—and how this information can predict susceptibility to disease (in this case, breast cancer) and prompt dramatic preventative measures. He also discusses the intellectual property issues surrounding the development of the recent RNA COVID-19 vaccines and the value of creating DNA variants as intellectual property in healthcare. Genes are being edited all the time; Jorge gives his thoughts on how much genetic information should be available to the public for free and how much it should be commercialized.