The Privacy Advisor Podcast

In this episode of the podcast, José Alejandro Bermudez of Nymity and formerly the inaugural Deputy Superintendent for the Protection of Personal Data in Colombia, discusses the realities on the ground in Latin America. Bermudez discusses emerging laws and regulations, private companies' resistance to investing in privacy and the fact that, as he says, the privacy profession isn't thriving in Latin America, but rather is still a "part-time" position in most cases.

In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, Alvaro Bedoya of Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy and Technology, and Angelique Carson, editor of The Privacy Advisor, chat live from the IAPP's Global Privacy Summit in Washington. Bedoya shares insights from working under Sen. Al Franken as his chief advisor and also about the work he's done researching facial recognition technology and the risks it poses, particularly to those who are most vulnerable in our society.

In this episode of the podcast, Content Director Sam Pfeifle, Content Manager Emily Leach, Editor Jed Bracy and Editor Angelique Carson discuss what looks hot at this year's IAPP Global Privacy Summit.

This episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast features Rachel Tobac. Tobac won last year’s Social Engineering Capture The Flag contest at DEFCON in Las Vegas. She’s got this great story about it, partly because she doesn’t work in privacy or security. She’s a senior community manager at Course Hero, a crowed sourced online learning platform. But her husband was at DEFCON the year prior, and immediately knew Rachel would love the competition. Despite her complete lack of experience in the field, she was selected to make it to the actual competition live at DEFCON. Hear her describe her experience in a glass phone booth, trying to get random, unsuspecting people to give up their company information. Winning the contest led her to the non-profit group Women in Security and Privacy, which she now actively works within.

Chris Zoladz of Navigate talks about what he’s seeing on the ground as he advises clients who’re aiming to comply with the GDPR as its effective date rapidly approaches. Zoladz says based on his experience, organizations are largely not going to be completely compliant by May 2018, in part due to budget cycles. He also describes how to be strategic about big data and the GDPR’s new consent requirements. A big part of it is data mapping, first, but it’s also about strategic communications with analytics teams. “I really think the conversation with the analytics team as to be about them, not about privacy,” he said. Of course, the end-game is privacy, but it’s all in the approach.

In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, Jed Bracy, editor of Privacy Perspective and Privacy Tech, talks about his week at RSA in San Francisco, California.

The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Jessica Rich on leaving the FTC by Angelique Carson, IAPP Publications Editor

Julien Schekter, a journalist and radio-show producer, and some of his colleagues decided to do something creative to help the average citizen understand the reality of today’s data-driven market and how to make good decisions online. After 18-months of collecting information from the Swiss government and private companies on their data practices, they created and released an online game in three languages. Since its release in December, it's taken off, with 30,000 users so far. It's even being adopted by some French schools and universities.

Duncan Campbell is head of U.S. Data Privacy at Barclays, the investment bank. Campbell didn’t really start out thinking he’d work in investment banking. He really had to learn it from scratch. But he says his philosophy on how he’d succeed is one he got from his athletic career as a younger person: there’s always going to be someone better than you, but you can always work harder.

Meg Leta Jones discusses her new book, Cntrl + Z: The Right To Be Forgotten and why she wrote it. She'll also talk about whether the U.S. should follow the EU’s lead in implementing the right to be forgotten, and whether that’s even possible, as well as her latest research on automation, which includes, among other questions, whether we should replace umpires with robots in baseball.