Serious Privacy

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Privacy law, pressure, and real-world judgment.

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Serious Privacy tracks the pressure points facing data protection teams, from AI oversight and copyright questions to vendor work, assessments, and breaches. Its tone is expert but informal, mixing conference dispatches, policy frustration, and practical privacy-program talk.

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Serious Privacy follows the professionals trying to make sense of privacy at the speed of modern technology. It is not a dry compliance bulletin. The show works more like a candid roundtable, with experienced voices reacting to legal developments, conference conversations, product realities, and the everyday strain inside privacy programs. Recent episodes show its range clearly. A dispatch from the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in DC turns into a wider conversation about visibility, public platforms, and the cultural habit of documenting everything. The discussion lingers on the idea that privacy can be a condition for happiness, not just a regulatory checkbox. That gives the show its broader frame. Privacy is treated as a human right, a business responsibility, and a daily negotiation with technology. The weekly news format brings a different energy. AI appears again and again, especially where law, copyright, training data, and government positioning fail to keep pace with technical change. The hosts do not pretend that every problem has a clean answer. They are willing to name the quicksand. Practical operations matter just as much. In a conversation about privacy programs, automation becomes the central question: what can be handled by workflows, what belongs to scripted logic, and what changes when machine learning enters the process. The show is alert to the burden on teams managing vendors, assessments, cookie banners, connected devices, and constant data flows. It understands that the volume of work can be as damaging as the complexity of the law. The tone is professional, but not polished into blandness. Frustration, humor, skepticism, and fatigue all make it through. Serious Privacy is built for people who already know that data protection is serious work and want conversations that admit how unsettled the field feels right now.

Made for: Serious Privacy is for privacy, data protection, cyber law, compliance, and governance professionals who want current discussion with practical texture. It also fits technology-minded listeners interested in how AI, platforms, and regulation collide.

What sets it apart: The show pairs professional privacy analysis with informal, unscripted discussion that leaves room for uncertainty and frustration. It connects high-level legal shifts to the operational chores privacy teams actually face.

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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…

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Serious Privacy gives privacy law's moving targets the informed argument your group chat cannot manage.

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  • the legal consequences behind AI and privacy headlines before you form an opinion
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Royal Reports from IAPP 26 in DCApr 16, 2026

A DC privacy summit debrief that keeps asking how public life became the default.

Serious Privacy uses its IAPP Global Privacy Summit run as a loose conference debrief, with Dr. Kay Royal carrying the DC side of the story while Paul Breitbart and Ralph O'Brien join from Europe.

News and Views - A week of announcements!Mar 26, 2026

A candid privacy roundup about law lagging behind AI, copyright, and fines.

Serious Privacy returns to a familiar tension: privacy law trying to keep pace with a world that keeps changing faster than the rules around it. With Paul Breitbart and Dr.

Privacy Programs with a Touch of Magic (with Paul Iagnocco)Oct 1, 2025

Privacy teams are under more pressure, with less time and more questions about automation.

This piece treats privacy work as an operational burden, not a policy exercise. It follows the pressure from new laws, AI oversight, data breaches, and the constant demand to do more with less, then focuses on the unglamorous work that slows privacy teams down: inventory,…

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Episodes

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    Almost too much to Handle - Week in privacy

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  2. 2

    A global world... of social media addiction?

    ·31m
  3. 3

    News and Views - A week of announcements!

    ·33m
  4. 4

    A MONTH in Privacy with R & K

    ·42m
  5. 5

    Data Protection: A Labour of Love with James Robson

    ·43m
  6. 6

    It's okay not to be with K. News and Views!

    ·38m
  7. 7

    The Agents and the Humans

    ·37m
  8. 8

    Our Sovereign Opinions (Week in Privacy)

    ·38m
  9. 9

    DSAR Overload (with Josh Schwartz)

    ·35m
  10. 10

    The Kemp Effect: From Silicon Valley to Privacy Regulator

    ·38m
  11. 11

    Happy Data Protection/Privacy Day!

    ·35m
  12. 12

    2025 - oh how we loved thee!

    ·32m
  13. 13

    Optimism and AI in the same sentence?!

    ·41m
  14. 14

    Arc-ing into the New Year!

    ·42m
  15. 15

    A rip roaring week in privacy with Paul and K

    ·34m
  16. 16

    An Open Letter from Open Rights Group

    ·35m
  17. 17

    Tea Time with Teresa - what do do if you are CPO?

    ·34m
  18. 18

    We do Redo - what's happening with GDPR? [Live from Privacy Space]

    ·34m
  19. 19

    If it ain't California, it's Texas

    ·39m
  20. 20

    A week in Privacy with Paul and Ralph

    ·37m
  21. 21

    The Tash Dash: a mini marathon on data protection

    ·43m
  22. 22

    The pattern is full with this week in privacy

    ·42m
  23. 23

    Ideas about IDs

    ·34m
  24. 24

    Privacy Programs with a Touch of Magic (with Paul Iagnocco)

    ·39m
  25. 25

    Fun with Facts plus... Korea!

    ·31m
  26. 26

    A slamming week in Privacy with Ralph and K

    ·36m
  27. 27

    Fireside Chat with a UK DPO (with Jordan Hall)

    ·34m
  28. 28

    Mish mash a privacy splash

    ·28m
  29. 29

    Think of the Children! Educational vs Technical controls.

    ·36m
  30. 30

    On Gaza & Human Rights - Decisive and potentially Divisive

    ·32m
  31. 31

    From the Beaches to the Breaches

    ·34m
  32. 32

    a Sparkling Week in Privacy

    ·38m
  33. 33

    Breaches and Terms: which mess is bigger?

    ·36m
  34. 34

    Personal Integrity, Regulatory capture & a week in Privacy

    ·33m
  35. 35

    250 episodes?! Let's celebrate!

    ·37m
  36. 36

    Vermont for Kids! and lots of other cool privacy things

    ·36m
  37. 37

    Fudge, DPIAs & Global Domination Plans (with Simon Pillinger)

    ·39m
  38. 38

    Data Makes the World Go Round (with Noël Luke)

    ·33m
  39. 39

    A doozy of a week in Privacy

    ·31m
  40. 40

    A strong week in Privacy

    ·37m
  41. 41

    The State of Digital (with Akhi Srivastava)

    ·28m
  42. 42

    Retro Week in Privacy - So much to Cover!

    ·33m
  43. 43

    Indescribably Intuitive: Indigenous Privacy

    ·37m
  44. 44

    A week in privacy with Ralph and K

    ·24m
  45. 45

    A week in privacy plus Summit Day 2 recap

    ·42m
  46. 46

    The 30 Year Plan: Live from IAPP GPS25

    ·33m
  47. 47

    Not your Grandma's Cookies (with Darren Abernethy)

    ·42m
  48. 48

    A Challenging Week in Privacy

    ·40m
  49. 49

    F to the T to the C - a slow but substantive week in privacy

    ·32m
  50. 50

    A Month in Privacy

    ·37m
  51. 51

    Whatever it Takes (with Rowenna Fielding)

    ·43m
  52. 52

    Out of the AI Frying Pan (with Joanne Furtsch)

    ·35m
  53. 53

    The Volatile Side of Privacy & Data Protection (with Joe Jones)

    ·31m
  54. 54

    Catch (up) of the Week: on notices, children and doping

    ·42m
  55. 55

    We require order! Order, we say (a week in privacy)

    ·41m
  56. 56

    Constitutionally Unconstitutional or is it? (Prof. Wayne Unger)

    ·36m
  57. 57

    The first week in privacy - hot news now

    ·35m
  58. 58

    Villains, Visions, and Val - Welcome 2025 (with Val Ilchenko)

    ·39m
  59. 59

    From Renovations to Resolutions: 2024 Recap (see ya' in 2025)

    ·44m
  60. 60

    A Week in Privacy

    ·38m
  61. 61

    Contract Management with Cathleen Doyel

    ·46m
  62. 62

    A long-awaited episode and law from Down Under (with John Keeves)

    ·33m
  63. 63

    A slow week in privacy - so AI time!

    ·36m
  64. 64

    Brussels State of Mind

    ·32m
  65. 65

    A Great Week in Privacy

    ·32m
  66. 66

    Big Information in a Small Space (GPA2)

    ·49m
  67. 67

    Opening Day at the GPA

    ·46m
  68. 68

    A few weeks ago in privacy

    ·39m
  69. 69

    A Chance Career in Privacy (with Conor Hogan)

    ·47m
  70. 70

    The Times They Are a-Changin'

    ·38m
  71. 71

    It's Canada Calling (with Meaghan McCluskey)

    ·37m
  72. 72

    A week too late

    ·36m
  73. 73

    Transfers Uber the Atlantic

    ·33m
  74. 74

    the Dog Days of Summer: a week in privacy

    ·32m
  75. 75

    one Hot week in privacy

    ·39m
  76. 76

    a chat on Cybersecurity

    ·36m
  77. 77

    Mish Mash, a Privacy Splash

    ·34m
  78. 78

    A week in privacy politics (with Ralph O'Brien and Marie Penot)

    ·37m
  79. 79

    The man, the myth, the legend - Ron de Jesus

    ·41m
  80. 80

    Valiant, Vexing, Vivacious Vermont - with Vt Rep Monique Priestley

    ·28m
  81. 81

    That week when Spongebob made Privacy News

    ·35m
  82. 82

    A week in privacy (plus a tad AIGP)

    ·38m
  83. 83

    On the Road Again

    ·36m
  84. 84

    A week in Privacy - the scary side

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  85. 85

    Episode 200: Join the Geeky Whistle Stop Tour (with Ralph and Marie)

    ·44m
  86. 86

    The Healthiest Data Show on Earth (with Irith Kist)

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  87. 87

    A holy week in privacy

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  88. 88

    One Hot Week in Privacy

    ·36m
  89. 89

    The Fun and da Mental part of Privacy - Data Inventories

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  90. 90

    A week in Privacy - EDPB/Meta plus TikTok, Nebraska, and more

    ·34m
  91. 91

    Quite the week in privacy - analysis of APRA

    ·38m
  92. 92

    Starting with Step 1 with Val Ilchenko

    ·33m
  93. 93

    What in the World? A focused episode on location data

    ·41m
  94. 94

    Letters of the Week: AI and TCF

    ·42m
  95. 95

    YeGads, the Ads with Alan Chapell

    ·37m
  96. 96

    Intense Privacy - IAPP UK Intensive

    ·35m
  97. 97

    A week of lemons and limes (and lots of updates)

    ·42m
  98. 98

    RAW privacy and GrumpyGDPR with Rie Aleksandra Walle

    ·38m
  99. 99

    Keeping a [low] Profile: A look at Profiling

    ·34m
  100. 100

    The Privacy Leaders' Compass with Dr. Valerie Lyons and Todd Fitzgerald

    ·46m
  101. 101

    Royal Reports from IAPP 26 in DC

    Serious Privacy's Royal Reports from IAPP 26 in DC follows Kay Royal's report from the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, DC, while Paul Breitbart and Ralph O'Brien dial in from Europe.

    Apr 16, 2026·35m·2 clips
  102. 102

    Fudge, DPIAs & Global Domination Plans (with Simon Pillinger)

    Apr 8, 2026·39m
  103. 103

    A global world... of social media addiction?

    A podcast discussing serious privacy topics including data protection, GDPR, cybersecurity, and AI oversight, with a sponsor promoting a privacy management platform.

    Apr 1, 2026·31m
  104. 104

    News and Views - A week of announcements!

    Hidden gem

    The New Jersey Scrap Tire Act can turn tire-tracking into a "fourth degree crime" with "up to 18 months in prison."

    Mar 26, 2026·33m·1 clip
  105. 105

    A MONTH in Privacy with R & K

    Mar 19, 2026·42m
  106. 106

    Data Protection: A Labour of Love with James Robson

    Mar 11, 2026·43m
  107. 107

    It's okay not to be with K. News and Views!

    Mar 4, 2026·38m
  108. 108

    The Agents and the Humans

    Feb 25, 2026·37m
  109. 109

    Our Sovereign Opinions (Week in Privacy)

    Feb 18, 2026·38m
  110. 110

    DSAR Overload (with Josh Schwartz)

    Feb 11, 2026·35m
  111. 111

    The Kemp Effect: From Silicon Valley to Privacy Regulator

    Feb 4, 2026·38m
  112. 112

    Happy Data Protection/Privacy Day!

    Jan 28, 2026·35m
  113. 113

    2025 - oh how we loved thee!

    Dec 31, 2025·32m
  114. 114

    Optimism and AI in the same sentence?!

    Dec 26, 2025·41m
  115. 115

    Arc-ing into the New Year!

    Dec 17, 2025·42m
  116. 116

    A rip roaring week in privacy with Paul and K

    Dec 10, 2025·34m
  117. 117

    An Open Letter from Open Rights Group

    Dec 4, 2025·35m
  118. 118

    Tea Time with Teresa - what do do if you are CPO?

    Nov 26, 2025·34m
  119. 119

    We do Redo - what's happening with GDPR? [Live from Privacy Space]

    Nov 19, 2025·34m
  120. 120

    If it ain't California, it's Texas

    Ralph O'Brien and K.

    Nov 10, 2025·39m·2 clips
  121. 121

    A week in Privacy with Paul and Ralph

    Hidden gem

    Serious Privacy hosts Paul Breitbart and Ralph O'Brien review European privacy news while Dr.

    Oct 29, 2025·37m·2 clips
  122. 122

    The Tash Dash: a mini marathon on data protection

    Oct 23, 2025·43m
  123. 123

    The pattern is full with this week in privacy

    Oct 20, 2025·42m
  124. 124

    Ideas about IDs

    Oct 8, 2025·34m
  125. 125

    Privacy Programs with a Touch of Magic (with Paul Iagnocco)

    Hidden gem

    Serious Privacy hosts Ralph O'Brien, Paul Breitbart, and Dr.

    Oct 1, 2025·39m·3 clips
  126. 126

    Fun with Facts plus... Korea!

    Sep 27, 2025·31m
  127. 127

    A slamming week in Privacy with Ralph and K

    Sep 19, 2025·36m
  128. 128

    Fireside Chat with a UK DPO (with Jordan Hall)

    Sep 11, 2025·34m
  129. 129

    Mish mash a privacy splash

    Aug 30, 2025·28m
  130. 130

    Think of the Children! Educational vs Technical controls.

    Aug 20, 2025·36m
  131. 131

    On Gaza & Human Rights - Decisive and potentially Divisive

    Aug 13, 2025·32m
  132. 132

    From the Beaches to the Breaches

    Aug 7, 2025·34m
  133. 133

    a Sparkling Week in Privacy

    Aug 1, 2025·38m
  134. 134

    Breaches and Terms: which mess is bigger?

    Jul 23, 2025·36m
  135. 135

    Personal Integrity, Regulatory capture & a week in Privacy

    Jul 16, 2025·33m
  136. 136

    250 episodes?! Let's celebrate!

    Jul 11, 2025·37m
  137. 137

    Vermont for Kids! and lots of other cool privacy things

    Jul 2, 2025·36m
  138. 138

    Almost too much to Handle - Week in privacy

    Jun 26, 2025·40m
  139. 139

    Data Makes the World Go Round (with Noël Luke)

    Jun 18, 2025·33m
  140. 140

    A doozy of a week in Privacy

    Jun 13, 2025·31m
  141. 141

    A strong week in Privacy

    Jun 5, 2025·37m
  142. 142

    The State of Digital (with Akhi Srivastava)

    May 31, 2025·28m
  143. 143

    Retro Week in Privacy - So much to Cover!

    May 22, 2025·33m
  144. 144

    Indescribably Intuitive: Indigenous Privacy

    May 14, 2025·37m
  145. 145

    A week in privacy with Ralph and K

    May 8, 2025·24m
  146. 146

    A week in privacy plus Summit Day 2 recap

    May 3, 2025·42m
  147. 147

    The 30 Year Plan: Live from IAPP GPS25

    Apr 24, 2025·33m
  148. 148

    Not your Grandma's Cookies (with Darren Abernethy)

    Apr 16, 2025·42m
  149. 149

    A Challenging Week in Privacy

    Apr 10, 2025·40m
  150. 150

    F to the T to the C - a slow but substantive week in privacy

    Apr 4, 2025·32m