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Serious Privacy

Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth & Ralph O"Brien

For those who are interested in the hottest field in a technology world. Whether you are a professional who wants to learn more about privacy, data protection, or cyber law or someone who just finds this fascinating, we have topics for you from data management to cybersecurity to social justice and data ethics and AI. In-depth information on serious privacy topics. This podcast, hosted by Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O"Brien, features open, unscripted discussions with global privacy

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36:29

A week in Privacy with Paul and Ralph

Serious Privacy ·

2025/10/29

Send us a text Join us on this episode of Serious Privacy, as Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien present the breaking news and hot events in data protection and privacy while Dr. K Royal was out this week. Tune in for a great discussion and catch up! 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 podcast@seriouspriva...

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42:34

The Tash Dash: a mini marathon on data protection

Serious Privacy ·

2025/10/23

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy, Dr. K Royal connects with Tash Whitaker to cover all things top of mind in data protection. Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien were out, so Tash and K hit the microphone unfettered! Join us as we discuss DSARs, AI, and more - in the run up to the Privacy Space in London in less than a month away. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivac...

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41:17

The pattern is full with this week in privacy

Serious Privacy ·

2025/10/20

Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy, hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal bring you a full week in privacy and data protection featuring new laws, new decisions, and new enforcement. We span from Pay to Play, to children's privacy, to California's Frontie AI - tune in... it's a hot one! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky...

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34:04

Ideas about IDs

Serious Privacy ·

2025/10/08

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting, talk about the UK's plans to introduce a mandatory digital identity card. This is not the first time a proposal for mandatory ID has come up in the UK, and Ralph has thoughts about it. Paul on the other hand is a little surprised about the uproar, since mandatory ID has been introduced in the Netherlands many moons ago. UK Government press release"‘A hacker’s dream’: Britons on Keir Starmer’s ...

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38:35

Privacy Programs with a Touch of Magic (with Paul...

Serious Privacy ·

2025/10/01

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting, and Dr. K Royal speak with Paul Iagnocco, Head of Customer Enablement at our sponsor TrustArc. Apart from catching up, the team speaks with our guest about the development and maintenance of data protection compliance programs, especially in this time where AI is becoming more and more important. Links: Linkedin AI training settingsSRB v EDPS on pseudonymous data (C-413/23) If you h...

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30:42

Fun with Facts plus... Korea!

Serious Privacy ·

2025/09/27

Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth brings us news from the Global Privacy Assembly held in Korea and Dr. K Royal has fun with privacy trivia! Ralph O'Brien is out this week. Open offer to all fans... if you answered all the questions correctly, send oneof us your address and we will send you a sticker for playing Trivacy! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.se...

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35:11

A slamming week in Privacy with Ralph and K

Serious Privacy ·

2025/09/19

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy, Ralph O'Brien of Reinbo Consulting and Dr. K Royal (Paul Breitbarth is travelling) discuss current events in privacy, data protection, and cyber law. Fascinating episode with all the hot stories which seem to follow a theme - adequacy and child online safety, plus some enforcements. Coverage includes the decision on the European Court's decision on the Latombe suit challenging the adequacy of the EU-US thingie, Brazil, Tazania, Argentina, Austra...

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33:35

Fireside Chat with a UK DPO (with Jordan Hall)

Serious Privacy ·

2025/09/11

Send us a text On this episode of Serious Privacy, while both Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien of Reinbo Consulting are out, Dr. K Royal connects with Jordan Hall, a DPO based in the UK. Discussion centers around scope of DPO, where the field has developed, and thoughts on current events. 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.seriousp...

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27:59

Mish mash a privacy splash

Serious Privacy ·

2025/08/30

Send us a text On this episode of seriousprivacy, Paul Breitbarth is away, so Ralph O’ Brien and Dr. K Royal bring you a mish mash week in privacy. Topics include current news and a little bit about the differences in GDPR compliance vs what the US privacy laws require. 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...

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36:06

Think of the Children! Educational vs Technical...

Serious Privacy ·

2025/08/20

Send us a text Back to the week of news! On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting, and Dr. K Royal discuss the topics of the week, Age Verification, Technical controls vs Educational controls, Freedom of speech and censorship, Greek, Italian and ICO enforcement, and yet more data breaches! Sources: https://spectrum.ieee.org/online-safety-kids-ieee-standardhttps://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/age-verification-whats-the-harm/ (NSFW)https://www.bbc.com/ne...

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31:51

On Gaza & Human Rights - Decisive and potentially...

Serious Privacy ·

2025/08/13

Send us a text While we generally don't shy away from politics when it comes to data protection and privacy rights, the conflict in Gaza is not a topic that we would quickly raise on the podcast. Unless data protection plays a role, which it now does. On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting, and Dr. K Royal enter a dimension not seen before on the podcast - a plea for human rights related to Israel and Gaza. The immediate reason for our discussion ...

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33:37

From the Beaches to the Breaches

Serious Privacy ·

2025/08/07

Send us a text On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting, and Dr. K Royal talk about a slew of breaches and what to do if your data is breached. 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 podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are e...

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37:57

a Sparkling Week in Privacy

Serious Privacy ·

2025/08/01

Send us a text This episode covers a week in privacy which feels light and refreshing. Listen to co-hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal. Topics include an emergency ban in Italy about publishing images about an autopsy, Germany's actions involving Meta, Poland's enforcement on a McDonald's data breach, UK's collaboration with OpenAI, UK's enforcement against spam/spoof scam calls, age-verification in MS, and more! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and I...

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36:09

Breaches and Terms: which mess is bigger?

Serious Privacy ·

2025/07/23

Send us a text With Dr. K Royal off to Vegas, this week it's Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting catching up for the Serious Privacy podcast on all of the news. Two big topics this week: the hidden-until-now data breach of the UK ministry of Defence in Afghanistan and the mess that was the WeTransfer terms update (official blog post, Paul's Linkedin post). The guys also talk about this piece in the New York Times Wirecutter on disappearing from the internet. If you have co...

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32:49

Personal Integrity, Regulatory capture & a week in...

Serious Privacy ·

2025/07/16

Send us a text With Paul away, Join K and Ralph on a riotous discussion of personal integrity and what positions we can work with and for - with regulators and industry cross pollinating individuals and resources. Can regulators remain ethical and independent, when we rely on skills and abilities for industry? Also, a week of news in Privacy and Data Protection with a round up of EU, UK, US and beyond news, cases, regulations and standards - including age verification, censorship, EU AI...

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36:28

250 episodes?! Let's celebrate!

Serious Privacy ·

2025/07/11

Send us a text 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. 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 podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6...

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35:55

Vermont for Kids! and lots of other cool privacy things

Serious Privacy ·

2025/07/02

Send us a text 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! 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 podcas...

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40:09

Almost too much to Handle - Week in privacy

Serious Privacy ·

2025/06/26

Send us a text 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...

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33:07

Data Makes the World Go Round (with Noël Luke)

Serious Privacy ·

2025/06/18

Send us a text 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....

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30:37

A doozy of a week in Privacy

Serious Privacy ·

2025/06/13

Send us a text 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! Powered by TrustArcSeamlessly manage your privacy program, assess risks, and stay up to date on laws across the globe. With TrustArc’s Privacy Studio and Governance Suite, you can automate cookie compliance, streamline data subject rights, and centralize your privacy tasks—all while red...

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