Serious Privacy
by Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth & Ralph O'Brien
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Animal Crackers - A Week in Privacy
Animal Crackers - A Week in Privacy
About this podcast
The PICCASO award winning Podcast, for those who are interested in the hottest field of human rights and laws on the digital frontier. Whether you are a professional who wants to learn more about privacy and privacy laws, data protection, GDPR or cyber law or someone who just finds this fascinating, we have topics for you from data management to cybersecurity, from social justice to data ethics and AI and digital identity protection. In-depth information on serious privacy topics including interviews with privacy leadership, privacy culture, serious discussions, and more.
This podcast, hosted by Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien, features open, unscripted discussions with global privacy professionals (those kitchen table or back porch conversations) where you hear the opinions and thoughts of those who are on the front lines working on the newest issues in handling personal data. Real information on your schedule - because the world needs serious privacy.
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Episodes
The newest 50 of 315 episodes
- Animal Crackers - A Week in Privacy · 35 min · Season 7 Episode 42Send us Fan Mail The unexpected question - do animal crackers translate? A week in privacy with Paul, K and Ralph, including AI, Data Protection by Design, Are Controllers and…
- A hot news week in privacy · 33 min · Season 7 Episode 41Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal review hot news over the past week including enforcement against…
- Certifiably Blessed - all about accreditations and certifications with Noel Luke and TrustArc · 31 min · Season 7 Episode 40Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal connect with @Noel Luke, of @TrustArc to discuss all things…
- They're Speaking my Language (or are they?) - week in privacy · 32 min · Season 7 Episode 39Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Bretibarth, and Ralph O'Brien cover a smashing week in privacy! Dr. K Royal is at the @Association of…
- What does Privacy have to do with horses? That's what we asked (with CPPA Phil Laird) · 39 min · Season 7 Episode 38Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal host the #CPPA California Privacy Protecction Agency's General Counsel, @Phil Laird…
- A week in privacy - Themes not Dreams · 30 min · Season 7 Episode 37Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal discuss a week in privacy and they seem to be themes but not dreams. privacy is a…
- A Solo Cup of Privacy · 30 min · Season 7 Episode 36Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Dr. K Royal was unepectedly solo (Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, were both traveling). So she provides a…
- Honor and Impact - Ralph and K get serious on 9/11 · 40 min · Season 7 Episode 35Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal take a moment (or 41 moments) to reflect on the meaning, history, and honor on 9/11…
- When Paul's away - A week in Privacy with Ralph and K! · 35 min · Season 7 Episode 34Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal cover a week in privacy, with a pretty random bag of stuff! We discuss enforcement…
- Week in Privacy - Information is Beautiful · 37 min · Season 7 Episode 33Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal cover a week in privacy, enforcement actions, breaches, settlements…
- 12 years in ICO Complaints (with Dom Smith) AND Meta settlement · 49 min · Season 7 Episode 32Send us Fan Mail The real problem with complaints isn’t that people are complaining. It’s that unhappy people don’t usually show up unless something already went wrong. So when…
- Eclipsing Privacy - Smart Glasses and a week in privacy · 36 min · Season 7 Episode 31Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, review the Meta Smart Glasses and privacy issues just before a solar eclipse occurs…
- Privacy Down Under (with Commissioner Carly Kind) · 40 min · Season 7 Episode 30Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien speak with the Privacy Commissioner of Australia, Carly Kind, about the…
- one HOT week in Privacy · 36 min · Season 7 Episode 29Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy in the midst of hot temperatures in…
- A multifacted week in privacy · 34 min · Season 7 Episode 28Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy. We have some jucy news from Europe, New…
- A Big 300! Regulating Canada and the World (with Philippe Dufresne) · 41 min · Season 7 Episode 27Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, celebrate 300 episodes. And for this milestone, we invited…
- Schrödinger's data - Guidance on being Anonymous and Web Scraping · 34 min · Season 7 Episode 26Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy. And we discuss some of the hot topics…
- A week in privacy, but we're really talking US Supreme Court · 36 min · Season 7 Episode 25Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy. Let's be honest though - it's really…
- Digital Colonization with Samantha Simms · 41 min · Season 7 Episode 24Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, ( Paul Breitbarth was out) meet with the phenomenal Samantha Simms. We had the best…
- Censorship, Safety, or Something Else? (Social Media Controls with Fey O'Brien) · 41 min · Season 7 Episode 23Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien , Dr. K Royal, and Paul Breitbarth explores the implications of proposed social media age…
- Bonus on AI, Games, and Governance of Emerging Tech · 28 min · Season 7 Episode 22Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien , Dr. K Royal, and Paul Breitbarth each provide a summary of the respective conferences they…
- The Glassholes of Privacy (Surveillance) · 32 min · Season 7 Episode 21Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien , Dr. K Royal, and Paul Breitbarth discuss surveillance in all of its lovely permutations along with…
- Simply Irresistable programs (with Ryan Boos) · 36 min · Season 7 Episode 20Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, while Paul Breitbarth is out, meet with Ryan Boos of TrustArc. What's on the mic?…
- an Aiyiyi week in privacy with Ralph and K · 36 min · Season 7 Episode 19Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, while Paul Breitbarth is out, discuss some reent events, namely graduation speakers…
- Around the world in a week in privacy · 34 min · Season 7 Episode 18Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode of a week in privacy, hosts Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien discuss some key movements in privacy, data protection, cyber law, and AI…
- Governance, Guardrails, and Getting AI Right (with Shoshana Rosenberg) · 37 min · Season 7 Episode 17Send us Fan Mail If ever there was a time to take AI governance seriously, it is now. Luckily, our guest today has written a great book about it. This week on the Serious Privacy…
- A confusing week in Privacy with K and Paul! · 34 min · Season 7 Episode 16Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth and and Dr. K Royal, while Ralph O'Brien is out, discuss some fascinating news. Catch what's…
- Governing the data world (with Daragh O’Brien) · 35 min · Season 7 Episode 15Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O'Brien connect with Daragh O'Brien of Castlebridge to talk about data…
- The GDPR - 10 vs. 8 - it's still great! · 42 min · Season 7 Episode 14Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O'Brien celebrated the 10th anniversary of the #GDPR! Yea!! Okay, there is…
- From Man with Love. A conversation with Dr Alexandra Delaney-Bhattacharya · 40 min · Season 7 Episode 13Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O'Brien meet with Dr. Alexandra Delaney-Bhattacharya, Information…
- Royal Reports from IAPP 26 in DC · 35 min · Season 7 Episode 12Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy with Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, we review high points of the IAPP Summit held in Washington DC. K…
- Fudge, DPIAs & Global Domination Plans (with Simon Pillinger) · 39 min · Season 7 Episode 11Send us Fan Mail In this slightly chaotic (and mildly censored) April Fools’ episode, hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal welcome Simon Pillinger of Pillinger…
- A global world... of social media addiction? · 31 min · Season 7 Episode 10Send us Fan Mail We are back again, and why so Serious? We are well into to season 7 of the Serious Privacy podcast, with dr. K Royal, Ralph O'Brien and Paul Breitbarth. Ahead of…
- News and Views - A week of announcements! · 33 min · Season 7 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, recovery from illness and come back strong with a cool…
- A MONTH in Privacy with R & K · 42 min · Season 7 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal address the hot topics of the month, as we have been so…
- Data Protection: A Labour of Love with James Robson · 43 min · Season 7 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal address the hot topic of data in…
- It's okay not to be with K. News and Views! · 38 min · Season 7 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien address the hot topics of the day with news updates…
- The Agents and the Humans · 37 min · Season 7 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal address the hot topic of agentic AI and…
- Our Sovereign Opinions (Week in Privacy) · 38 min · Season 7 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal discuss the privacy and data protection news of the…
- DSAR Overload (with Josh Schwartz) · 35 min · Season 7 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal connect with Josh Schwartz of Phaselaw…
- The Kemp Effect: From Silicon Valley to Privacy Regulator · 38 min · Season 7 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O'Brien meet with Tom Kemp of the California Privacy Protection Agency. We…
- Happy Data Protection/Privacy Day! · 35 min · Season 7 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail We are back! Welcome to season 7 of the Serious Privacy podcast, with dr. K Royal, Ralph O'Brien and Paul Breitbarth. Also this season, we will keep you up to…
- 2025 - oh how we loved thee! · 32 min · Season 6 Episode 47Send us Fan Mail Join your hosts on this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O’Brien, and Dr. K Royal as they close out 2025 with favorite moments and episodes, state…
- Optimism and AI in the same sentence?! · 41 min · Season 6 Episode 46Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy, Ralph O’Brien, and Dr. K Royal connect with Charlie Silver of permission.io to discuss data ownership and trackable permission…
- Arc-ing into the New Year! · 44 min · Season 6 Episode 45Send us Fan Mail On this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O’Brien, and Dr. K Royal connect with Val Ilchenko, Eric Sendelbach, and Ian Runyon of TrustArc to…
- A rip roaring week in privacy with Paul and K · 34 min · Season 6 Episode 44Send us Fan Mail Join us for a rip-roaring week in privacy on this episode of Serious Privacy, where co-hosts Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal (Ralph O'Brien is off this week)…
- An Open Letter from Open Rights Group · 35 min · Season 6 Episode 43Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy, Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal (while Paul Breitbarth is out) connect with Mariano delli Santi of Open Rights Group - a civil…
- Tea Time with Teresa - what do do if you are CPO? · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 42Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal (while Ralph O'Brien is out) connect with a long-time friend and colleague Teresa…
- We do Redo - what's happening with GDPR? [Live from Privacy Space] · 34 min · Season 6 Episode 41Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the award-winning Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal bring you an analysis of the leaked GDPR revisions recorded…
- If it ain't California, it's Texas · 39 min · Season 6 Episode 40Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Serious Privacy, Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal discuss the weekly news, including the Google settlement in Texas, ClearviewAI and much more…
