The Privacy Advisor Podcast

By any measure, 2017 was a banner year for privacy. Here at the IAPP, we saw an incredible surge of activity, from attendance at IAPP KnowledgeNets and Privacy After Hours, to certifications, to podcast listens. The most obvious push behind that surge was that four-letter word, the "GDPR." But interpreting the text of the EU's new data protection regime wasn't the only news that mattered in 2017. In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, the IAPP Publications Team sits around the microphone on a cold December day to discuss the highlights of the year in privacy and what to expect from the IAPP in 2018.

Under the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, Section 702 allows U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance on persons overseas it believes to be a potential threat. But the government is forbidden from collecting intelligence via Section 702 on persons “reasonably believed” to be within the U.S. or even a U.S. person outside of U.S. borders. But critics say there’s reason to believe U.S. persons are often incidentally the target of investigations, despite the rules stating otherwise, and that the secrecy surrounding intelligence operations allows it to happen en masse. Section 702 is set to expire on Dec. 31, and intelligence officials have argued it should be renewed wholesale. But critics of the program say it should be renewed only with amendments that increase privacy protections for innocent Americans whose data may be swept up in the data collected. And what happens with 702 may have a broader impact on international agreements like the Privacy Shield, for example, which is already on shaky ground, in part, because of concerns over U.S. intelligence agencies use of the data it collects. In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, travels to American University to talk to law professor Jennifer Daskal to talk about what she thinks might happen on or before Dec. 31.

Odia Kagan knew she wanted to be an attorney at age three. As the story goes, she was found crafting a list of the harms she suffered at the hands of her then-one-month-old younger sister. Though that might have been child’s play, Kagan never deviated from her dream of becoming a lawyer. Though she spent her youth in Israel, she moved to the U.S. nine years ago, and she's now a transactional attorney in the U.S. In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, Kagan discusses the differences she perceived practicing in both jurisdictions, many of them cultural, and how she stays ahead of the curve advising clients in the face of emerging technologies.

In this episode of the podcast, PageFair's Johnny Ryan talks to host Angelique Carson about why ad tech is in trouble. Essentially, the industry faces a consumer revolt of sorts given the strict consent requirements under the pending GDPR and ePrivacy Regulation. Consumers indicate they're likely to opt-out en masse, and advertisers are faced with a new world from the Wild Wild West they'd been operating under previously.

This special edition of The Privacy Advisor Podcast features a recap of the highlights from the IAPP's Privacy. Security. Risk. conference recently in San Diego. In this episode, the IAPP's Jed Bracy, Emily Leach, Angelique Carson and Sam Pfeifle gather around the mic, slightly sleep deprived and delusional, to discuss the highlights from PSR's key themes, including blockchain, the tension between needing a "tribe" and needing autonomy, and whether any of us could spend 20 years alone in the woods.

In this live recording taken at P.S.R. 2017, Angelique Carson and Jason Straight discuss lessons learned from the Equifax breach now that many of the facts have emerged. Straight takes the audience through what went wrong and when and how privacy professionals can avoid similar fallout should a breach occur at their own organization.

In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, host Angelique Carson talks to Justin Brookman, who's director of consumer privacy and technology policy at Consumer's Union, about why he made the jump from the Federal Trade Commission to CU. Brookman also discusses his work in helping the FTC establish its first technology office and whether that's been a differentiator for the agency's power as a regulator.

Just a quick little hello to tell you guys I'll be recording a live episode of the podcast next week in San Diego at the IAPP's P.S.R. event, and I want you to come!

In this episode of the podcast, Gilad Rosner, founder of the Internet of Things Privacy Forum discusses his work in bringing together academics, advocates, governments and regulators to solve the potential privacy problems presented by IoT-connected devices.

In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, chats with Alexandra Ross, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, about incorporating some of her background in theater and her passion for yoga into her privacy practice; the theater experience helps her to be heard in effective ways, the yoga practice helps her stay mindful about the decisions she's making and who those decisions might impact. Ross is senior global privacy and data security counsel at Autodesk, a 3D design, engineering and entertainment software company. Ross says she's spending most of her time on GDPR these days, and feels one change the regulation will bring is a sort of "survival of the fittest" vendor race.