Serious Privacy
by Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth & Ralph O'Brien
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
Episodes
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PHP VUlnerability from the Other Side (Fan Perspective with SImon Hania)
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal connect with Simon Hania, former DPO at #Uber. Simon reached out with a comment on a prior week in privacy to share his disagreement on something we said. So we invited him on the show…
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Animal Crackers - A Week in Privacy
Send 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 Processors the right terms, Digital omnibus, latest news judgements, and a board game update (moving from crowdfunding to...
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A hot news week in privacy
Send 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 Meta - Cambridge Analytica just won't die, cybersecurity, and other stories in our world. And a big Congrats to…
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Certifiably Blessed - all about accreditations and certifications with Noel Luke and TrustArc
Send 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 certifiable... pretty sure we can all agree that one is certifiably blessed to work in this fabulous field. If you have…
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They're Speaking my Language (or are they?) - week in privacy
Send 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 Corporate Counsel in Boston speaking on Information Governance (with @tanya Avila, sajju george, and Stacey Shaw). Paul and…
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What does Privacy have to do with horses? That's what we asked (with CPPA Phil Laird)
Send 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 and what a fascinating conversation! We hated to say good-bye! Paul Breitbarth was out this spisode, so it will be…
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A week in privacy - Themes not Dreams
Send 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 work in progress. Ralph O'Brien was out this week. @trustarc If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and...
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A Solo Cup of Privacy
Send 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 completely unscripted episode covering changes she has seen in the past 2 decades aloing with some news highlights. She promised...
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Honor and Impact - Ralph and K get serious on 9/11
Send 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. It's a humbling podcast, but one you will enjoy. We also bake in some privacy news. @trustarc @Paul Breitbarth, If you...
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When Paul's away - A week in Privacy with Ralph and K!
Send 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 actions, AI legislation, jewellery, password advice, special category data and all the latest news and views! Australian...
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Week in Privacy - Information is Beautiful
Send 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 (dud you see the one with Meta?), and more. Check out this website for visualizations of data breaches...
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12 years in ICO Complaints (with Dom Smith) AND Meta settlement
Send 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 the ICO says it has to triage harder, that’s the tension. Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth,...
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Eclipsing Privacy - Smart Glasses and a week in privacy
Send 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. We've decided we like the Duck, Duck, Go version. They include a brief week in privacy. If you have comments or...
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Privacy Down Under (with Commissioner Carly Kind)
Send 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 legislative developments in Australia, indigenous privacy, enforcement action on data breaches, and of course the U 16 social...
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one HOT week in Privacy
Send 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 Europe and multiple fires arund the world. This week, we bring you some enforcement activities, regulator inquiries, old…
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A multifacted week in privacy
Send 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 Jersey, and the United Kingdom. Tune in! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram...
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A Big 300! Regulating Canada and the World (with Philippe Dufresne)
Send 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 Philippe Dufresne - Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Privacy Assembly. It is…
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Schrödinger's data - Guidance on being Anonymous and Web Scraping
Send 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 including an European Data Protection Board (EDPB) we also look at the EDPB guidelines on anonymisation, and Web…
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A week in privacy, but we're really talking US Supreme Court
Send 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 the US Supreme Court reent decisions in Slaughter and Chatrie. Tune in for a lievely discussion. Oh - and we're also on...
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Digital Colonization with Samantha Simms
Send 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 time going deep on some really substantive issues, even starting with Samantha's answer on the unexpected question.…
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Censorship, Safety, or Something Else? (Social Media Controls with Fey O'Brien)
Send 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 restrictions in the UK to under 16s, through the insights of university student (and our editor!) Fey O'Brien, emphasising the...
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Bonus on AI, Games, and Governance of Emerging Tech
Send 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 attended. The IAPP AI conference in Dublin, Games Expo, and Governance of Emerging Tech. Enjoy! If you have comments or...
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The Glassholes of Privacy (Surveillance)
Send 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 some current news. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky...
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Simply Irresistable programs (with Ryan Boos)
Send 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? Simplification of privacy programs. Ryan comes to this with the experience to back up his knowledge - he has fought in…
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an Aiyiyi week in privacy with Ralph and K
Send 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, boos, and AI. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky…
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Around the world in a week in privacy
Send 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 around the world. Dr. K Royal was off speaking at a Governance or Emerging Tech and Science conference in Arizona. Join...
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Governance, Guardrails, and Getting AI Right (with Shoshana Rosenberg)
Send 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 podcast, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal speak with Shoshana Rosenberg. She is Managing Director of...
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A confusing week in Privacy with K and Paul!
Send 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 happening. First up - a decision from Spain on when data processing starts. We are so confused. #unexpectedquestion what…
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Governing the data world (with Daragh O’Brien)
Send 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 governance, the weaponisation of DSARs (data subject access requests), and all the complexities thereof. If you have…
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The GDPR - 10 vs. 8 - it's still great!
Send 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 some debate on the birthday date, whether it is 2016 or 2018... where one is when it was signed into law and the other...
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From Man with Love. A conversation with Dr Alexandra Delaney-Bhattacharya
Send 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 Commissioner for the Isle of Man to discuss her experiences, professional growth, priorities, and outlook. It's a rousing good...
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Royal Reports from IAPP 26 in DC
Send 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 attended in person and connected with individuals on their take-aways and the keynote speakers - you know, just some people...
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Fudge, DPIAs & Global Domination Plans (with Simon Pillinger)
Send 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 Privacy, also known as the first president of the People's Republic of North Oxfordshire, to discuss how humour,...
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A global world... of social media addiction?
Send 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 IAPP Washington DC, we discuss the new Oklahoma SB546, the Global CBPR forum meeting in Lima Peru, regulatory capture,...
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News and Views - A week of announcements!
Send 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 announcement - and your regular news round up in all things Data Protection and Privacy. Latest regulatory penalties…
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A MONTH in Privacy with R & K
Send 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 full of guests that the time has flown by! Latest regulatory penalties, new legislation and news from around the globe,...
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Data Protection: A Labour of Love with James Robson
Send 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 Elections and Democratic engagement with James Robson, former DPO of the UK's Labour Party. If you have comments or…
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It's okay not to be with K. News and Views!
Send 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 across #privacy, #dataprotection, #security, #AI and #humanrights. No K Royal, who is on a well earned vacation! EDPB,...
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The Agents and the Humans
Send 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 the risks to #privacy, #dataprotection, #security, and #humanrights. We cover the basics as well as human attributes…
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Our Sovereign Opinions (Week in Privacy)
Send 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 past couple of weeks. This week, Paul rants about digital sovereignty, K discusses new American legislation, especially to...
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DSAR Overload (with Josh Schwartz)
Send 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 to discuss the increasing use of data subject access rights (DSARs) as a weapon. The resources required to handle such...
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The Kemp Effect: From Silicon Valley to Privacy Regulator
Send 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 talk about the new DROP system, priorities, history, and coordination with other agencies and lawmakers. Tom was...
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Happy Data Protection/Privacy Day!
Send 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 date of developments in the data protection and privacy community, artificial intelligence and some cybersecurity. And of...
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2025 - oh how we loved thee!
Send 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 law review, and predictions. And of course, a little bit about EU data protection. We'll be back January 28, global...
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Optimism and AI in the same sentence?!
Send 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 for online data. Of course, while Paul Breitbarth is out, Raph and K cannot help but challenge some of the positions -...
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Arc-ing into the New Year!
Send 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 discuss the launch of the Arc. Join us as we discuss the factors that went into developing the Arc, challenges for privacy…
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A rip roaring week in privacy with Paul and K
Send 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) cover quality, not quantity - although there is no shortage of current events. If you have comments or questions, find us…
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An Open Letter from Open Rights Group
Send 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 society pressure group - regarding an open letter to the UK department of Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT),...
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Tea Time with Teresa - what do do if you are CPO?
Send 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 Troester-Falk. The topics are broad, but mainly center around her new book "So you got the Privacy Officer Title - Now what?"...
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We do Redo - what's happening with GDPR? [Live from Privacy Space]
Send 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 live at the award-winning Privacy Space in the UK. Tune in to hear what might be happening. If you have comments or...
About this show
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
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