The Privacy Advisor Podcast
Episodes
On privacy and machine unlearinng: A discussion with Jevan Hutson
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's no secret that large language models and artificial intelligence systems require massive amounts of data, which often runs up against fundamental...
Data protection law in India and Vietnam: A discussion with Charmian Aw
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Asia-Pacific region is home to more than half the world's population - at 60% - with approximately 4.75 billion people. In recent years, India and...
California privacy enforcement in 2026: A discussion with CalPrivacy's Tom Kemp
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The California Privacy Protection Agency was formed six years ago as mandated by the California Privacy Rights Act. As the first dedicated privacy ...
A look ahead at digital policy in 2026 with Omer Tene
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Goodwin Partner Omer Tene has long had his finger on the pulse of privacy and AI governance developments and trends. He advises clients on a wide rang...
Former AI Act negotiator Laura Caroli on the proposed EU Digital Omnibus for AI
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On November 19, the European Commission unveiled two major omnibus packages as part of its European Data Union Strategy. One package proposes several ...
'Privacy, Please!' Lorrie Cranor on why she wrote a privacy book for 4-to-6-year-olds
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lorrie Cranor has long been a leader in the privacy space. As Director and Bosch Distinguished Prof. in Security and Privacy Technologies at Carnegie ...
EU data protection enforcement and guidance: A discussion with EDPB Chair Anu Talus
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anu Talus was elected Chair of the European Data Protection Board in May of 2023. The EDPB, which was established in 2018, ensures that the EU General...
Guest pod: Alex LaCasse talks AI governance with Brenda Leong and Andrew Burt
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As artificial intelligence continues to coalesce in the modern economy, AI governance only grows in significance. Brenda Leong, director of ZwillGen's...
Personal data defined? Ulrich Baumgartner on the implications of the CJEU's SRB ruling
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On 4 Sept., the Court of Justice of the European Union gave its highly anticipated decision in the EDPS v. SRB case. In its landmark ruling, t...
On leadership in digital governance: A chat with Ruby Zefo
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ruby Zefo has long been a leader in the fields of privacy, data protection and cybersecurity. She was the first chief privacy officer at Uber, where s...
What makes an AI governance professional: A discussion with Ashley Casovan
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly a year ago, the IAPP expanded its mission in response to a rapidly changing digital environment to include AI governance, digital responsibilit...
Behind the camera with "Privacy People" documentarian and privacy pro Stephen Bolinger
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the privacy profession surpasses the quarter-century mark and enters into a brave new world of artificial intelligence and digital entropy, it's wo...
New York State of Mind: A discussion with NYC Chief Privacy Officer Michael Fitzpatrick
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As chief privacy officer of the biggest city in the United States, it's safe to say that Michael Fitzpatrick doesn't have your normal, run-of-the-mill...
Privacy in the age of robotics: A discussion with Erin Relford
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Autonomous robots with embedded artificial intelligence are growing more common across industry sectors. So-called "embodied AI," collects vast amount...
On privacy and technology with Dan Solove
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Privacy law and technological advancements have a deep and intertwined history that go back to at least the 1890s with Samuel Warren and Louis Brandei...
Regulating online safety: A chat with Australia eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia made waves in 2024 after it passed an amendment to the Online Safety Act of 2021, which introduces a legal minimum age of 16 to create and u...
US state AI legislation in 2025: A discussion with Connecticut State Sen. James Maroney
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Though it came close in recent years, federal privacy legislation is not likely top of mind as a new administration takes the reigns in Washington, DC...
Digital policy 2024: A year in review with Omer Tene
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to believe we've reached the final weeks of 2024, a year filled with policy and legal developments across the map. From the continued emerge...
AI red teaming strategy and risk assessments: A conversation with Brenda Leong
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI governance is a rapidly evolving field that faces a wide array of risks, challenges and opportunities. For organizations looking to leverage AI ...
Presidential election 2024: Where the candidates stand on privacy and AI governance policy
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the U.S. enters the final stretch of the 2024 election cycle, we face a tight race at the presidential and congressional levels. With a razor-thin ...
2024 in US state privacy law: A retrospective with Keir Lamont and David Stauss
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The year 2024 proved to be another robust one for emerging U.S. state privacy law. Seven states joined the ranks, bringing the total up to 19. ...
Assessing AI's risks and impacts: A conversation with NIST's Reva Schwartz
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2024, the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology launched a new program called ARIA, which is short for Assessing Risks and Impac...
Privacy litigation trends: A discussion with Darren Abernethy
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the proliferation of comprehensive U.S. state privacy laws in recent years, there's been an understandable focus by privacy professionals on this...
Inside the EU AI Act negotiations: A discussion with Laura Caroli
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For many of us following along with the EU AI Act negotiations, the road to a final agreement took many twists and turns, some unexpected. For Laura C...
Top trends in cybersecurity: A chat with James Dempsey and John Carlin
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In tandem with privacy, cybersecurity law is rapidly evolving to meet the needs of an increasingly digitized and complex economy. To help practitioner...
Regulating AI in the UK: A discussion with Lord Holmes
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For those following the regulation of artificial intelligence, there is no doubt passage of the AI Act in the EU is likely top of mind. But proposed p...
Privacy and data protection in 2023: A year in review with Joe Jones
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hard to believe we're at the twilight of 2023. For those following data protection and privacy developments, each year seems to bring with it a torren...
Luca Bertuzzi on the EU AI Act political deal and what's next
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a gruelling trilogue process that featured two marathon negotiating sessions, the European Union finally came to a political agreement 8 Decembe...
Martin Abrams: A look back at a career in information privacy and consumer policy
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Abrams knows a little something about information privacy and consumer policy. Over the course of the last 40-plus years, Abrams has had his h...
EU policymakers discuss the EU AI Act negotiations at DPC23
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The EU AI Act negotiations recently hit a major roadblock after EU Council Member States France and Germany unexpectedly pushed back on the European P...
Catching up with the co-author of the White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As automated systems rapidly develop and embed themselves into modern life, policy makers around the world are taking note and, in some cases, steppin...
Assessing the Snowden revelations 10 years later
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In June 2013, a series of high-profile U.S. government surveillance disclosures to major media outlets rippled throughout the world and changed the ca...
The ins and outs of workplace privacy law: A chat with Zoe Argento
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We often focus on consumer policy when discussing privacy laws and obligations, but companies must protect their employee data, as well. Navigating co...
NIST's Reva Schwartz on the new AI Risk Management Framework
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The prospect of day-to-day life with artificial intelligence is no longer a future endeavor. AI systems comprise countless applications across public ...
Top takeaways from the FTC-GoodRx case: A chat with Kirk Nahra
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In early February, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission published a proposed order that fines telehealth and discount prescription provider GoodRX $1.5 m...
A look at privacy developments in 2023 with Omer Tene
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Without a doubt, 2022 was a packed year for privacy-related news and developments. But according to Goodwin Partner and IAPP Westin Emeritus Senior Fe...
All things 'California Privacy Law' with Lothar Determann
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
California has long led the way on many privacy-related laws, going back to at least 2002 when it passed the first data breach notification law in the...
Operationalizing data subject rights: How Consumer Reports is aiming to help
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the rise of data subject rights in privacy law, privacy practitioners are often challenged with operationalizing what can be a complex and risky ...
The EU AI Act: A discussion with MEP and Co-rapporteur Dragoș Tudorache
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly five years after the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Europe is immersed in a digital market strategy that is givin...
What the 2022 midterm election results mean for US privacy law
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The highly anticipated mid-term elections in the U.S. so far have provided surprising results. Many political pundits expected a "red wave" of Republi...
On the need for intimate privacy - A chat with Danielle Citron
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we round out 2022, digital technology is further embedding itself into our daily lives. Beyond the smartphone's ubiquity, wearable sensors prolifer...
A chat with U.K. Information Commissioner John Edwards
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since becoming U.K. Information Commissioner, John Edwards has been busy. Officially taking the reigns January 4, Edwards embarked on a listening tour...
Children's privacy and safety: A conversation with Kalinda Raina
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1998, the U.S. was the first nation to enact a privacy law specifically tailored to protect children's data. Nearly 25 years later, COPPA – the C...
Talking Strategic Privacy by Design with Jason Cronk
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of privacy and data protection by design is not new in the privacy world. We know that privacy should be integrated in the foundational de...
A chat with Neil Richards on 'Why Privacy Matters'
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's difficult to remember a time when people didn't extoll cliches like "privacy is dead" or "data is the new oil." No doubt, privacy is constantly c...
From the AI Act to the DSA: Catching up on the EU's digital agenda
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Though many privacy pros are still grappling with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the EU is now busy leading a new generation of data regul...
A chat with Jim Dempsey about 'Cybersecurity Law Fundamentals'
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cybersecurity is inextricably connected to privacy in countless ways. Like privacy law and regulation in the U.S., cybersecurity stands on a patchwork...
Is competition and privacy regulation facing a transformative moment?
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Data protection and competition enforcement have been on a collision course in recent years. The Big Tech platforms have amassed powerful market share...
Ohio Lt. Governor Jon Husted discusses the state's privacy bill
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On July 13, Ohio Lt. Governor Jon Husted announced the introduction of the Ohio Personal Privacy Act. The law applies to organizations doing business ...
The rise of the voice-intelligence industry: A discussion with Joseph Turow
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Voice-activated products and services are proliferating, while voice-recognition technology is on the rise. In addition to popular voice-activated ass...
Rethinking notice and consent - A chat with Jen King
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Notice and consent have been foundational principles in privacy and data protection for decades. But do they provide individuals with the ability to m...
Rep. Suzan DelBene on the need for a federal US privacy law
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Prospects for a federal privacy law in the U.S. ramped up in recent years, but even though data protection is a bipartisan issue, nothing has come clo...
Exploring emotion-detection technology: A conversation with Ben Bland
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are rapidly developing across virtually all sectors of the global economy. One nascent field...
US government surveillance, global data flows and the Russia investigation: A chat with April Doss
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
U.S. government surveillance bubbled back up in headlines in recent weeks. Portugal's data protection authority halted transfers of data to the U.S. a...
A discussion about 'dark patterns' with Finn Myrstad
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Norwegian Consumer Council made waves in early 2021 after its complaint to Norway's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, against Grindr result...
Is a 'multilateral privacy treaty' the answer to 'Schrems II'?
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of "Schrems II," the future of data transfers is on shaky ground. True, the Biden administration has demonstrated that it's taking trans-A...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: All things Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act with Odia Kagan
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Virginia joined rarified air March 2 after its governor signed the Consumer Data Protection Act into law. Though California was the first state to pas...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Privacy engineering and design with Nishant Bhajaria
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Concepts like "privacy engineering" and "privacy by design" have been in the privacy lexicon for several years, but do we all know or agree about what...
What's ahead for U.S. state privacy legislation in 2021?
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With 2020 finally in the rearview mirror, 2021 looks like it will be filled with potential data privacy legislation in the U.S. Of course, front and c...
Privacy in 2020: A year in review with IAPP's Omer Tene and Caitlin Fennessy
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It goes without saying 2020 has been a challenging and difficult year. COVID-19 has affected the world in inalterable ways. And though the pandemic is...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Carissa Véliz on privacy, AI ethics and democracy
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence, big data and personalization are driving a new era of products and services, but this paradigm shift brings with it a slate o...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: A chat with Alastair Magtaggart on Prop 24
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hard to believe it, but we're only days away from a fateful vote in California on what's called Proposition 24. If approved by the residents of Califo...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: How to know who's tracking your data
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As a consumer, it can be really difficult to figure out who's tracking your data online. Many companies hide behind algorithms claiming they're the "s...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: The SAFE Data Act, and the latest Senate hearing on federal privacy legislation
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There have been no shortage of hearings in the last couple of years on potential federal privacy legislation in the U.S. This week was no exception, a...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: How do we protect children's privacy in a COVID-dominated school year?
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As children around the globe either head back to school or continue their school year, depending on geolocation, many new privacy and data protection ...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Um, what just happened in Brazil?
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If Brazil gave birth to its data protection law this week, it was a really fast labor. Privacy professionals awoke to the news Thursday that overnig...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: So Privacy Shield is invalid, what to do next?
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a highly anticipated decision, Europe's highest court decided July 16 that the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement is invalid. The ruling will impact ...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Are COVID apps doing privacy well?
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There's no shortage of tech companies and apps aiming to help thwart the spread of COVID-19, in addition to government efforts. But with so many diffe...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Suing to stop the (illegal) surveillance
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Jay Edelson and his team at Edelson PC have filed three different class-action lawsuits related to unwanted surveillance: One against securi...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: How do we overcome gridlock on U.S. privacy legislation?
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When the world was turned upside down with the COVID-19 pandemic and then the murder of George Floyd in the U.S., any momentum we'd started to see on ...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: A dispatch from Brussels
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is so much privacy news related to the pandemic lately that it sometimes feels like that's the only news. But the world continues to spin, if mo...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: He's Bermuda's first privacy commissioner
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Especially now, while most of us are stuck indoors hiding from the invisible monster that is the COVID-19 disease, it's not difficult to imagine bette...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: GDPR-based class actions on the rise
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The EU General Data Protection Regulation ushered in an enhanced private right of action for violations of the law, both for material and non-material...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Does privacy even matter right now?
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's a troubling and weird time to be alive. The headline are dominated by reports of mass death and despair globally, and we're all trapped at home t...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Should we give up our data to protect the herd?
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Telecommunications companies across the world, including in Germany, Brazil and China have granted their governments access to customers' cellphone da...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: What happens to data privacy in a pandemic?
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's a scary time by any standard. There's news every day about the latest number of those infected by an invisible danger that'll make some sick and ...
Podcast: An insider's view of data protection politics in the EU
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If there's anyone we could call an expert on data protection in the EU, it's Christian D'Cunha. Years back, he was charged with leading the review of ...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: How should we interpret the European Commission's new AI strategy?
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
February 19, the European Commission released its EU data strategy. As the IAPP's Riyan Chiavetta reported, the document outlines the commission's fi...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Why the ICO's new children's code could be a 'game changer'
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In January, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office released its proposed "Age Appropriate Design Code" aimed at protecting children's privacy onl...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Podcast: He reached a $550 million settlement with Facebook
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It would've been hard to miss the big news this week, news privacy advocates are heralding as a major win: Facebook has agreed to settle for $550 mill...
Podcast: Does Washington's privacy bill represent meaningful privacy reform?
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jan. 15, Washington State Legislature's Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Committee held its first public hearing on a reintroduced version of t...
Podcast: 2019 was brutal, so, to 2020?
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who's been in the privacy game for a minute will likely tell you 2019 was one of the most exciting — and stressful — years on the books. Re...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: What the regulators had to say in Brussels
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, on the keynote stage at the IAPP's Data Protection Congress, data protection authorities from three different countries took the stage to a...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: What's it like to work for a DPA?
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, host Angelique Carson chcats with Robert Robbert van Eijk, who's recently joined the Future of Privacy...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: A close-up on what's happening in Brussels
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn't long ago that the number of journalists covering the privacy and data protection beat was very small. Most mainstream newspapers didn't have...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: What will happen to cross-border data transfers?
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There are so many privacy headlines in the U.S. right now that it almost seems to overshadow developments in the EU. While the privacy profession was,...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Industry's take on complying with CCPA
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At the IAPP's Privacy. Security. Risk. conference, it would be hard to argue that the California Consumer Privacy Act wasn't the general topic of conv...
The Right To Be Forgotten Hits Pop Culture
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A surefire way to take the social temperature of a time period is to sample its art. For those who've been working in privacy for some time, it's perh...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: The CCPA in its final form
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Friday, Sept 6, was the final day for any amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act to be introduced, per California Assembly rules. Lawmakers...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Is the FTC's COPPA settlement with Google and YouTube a game-changer?
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced its settlement with Google and its subsidiary YouTube as a historic moment and a "game changer"...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Debrief on ePrivacy Regulations, Schrems II
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Remember when the GDPR was about to be signed into law and there was all sorts of chatter that the ePrivacy Regulation would soon be passed as well? T...
The Privacy Advisor: CCPA co-author talks this week's amendments
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There's no question that the California Consumer Privacy Act has captured the attention of not only the U.S. but its global counterparts as well. What...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Kashmir Hill talks privacy reporting, joining NYT
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, The New York Times announced it had hired journalist Kashmir Hill to its Business beat. Hill, most recently of Gizmodo, has long covered pri...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: 100th episode special edition
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's been three years since journalist Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, was directed by her boss to start something called a podcast that could help serve t...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: GDPR year one was 'unprecedented
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this special edition of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, two of the people completely immersed in EU General Data Protection compliance discuss the las...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: A download on Latin America's privacy landscape
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While it's true privacy and data protection laws are undergoing shifts in many parts of the world, this is especially true for Latin America where the...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: The latest on CCPA's amendments
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There's been no shortage of press about the California Consumer Privacy Act. Sessions on the topic were among the most attended at the IAPP's Global P...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Did the latest federal privacy bill hearing push things forward?
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On May 1, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held its third hearing on how to craft a potential federal privacy bill. W...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: NZ Commissioner calls for post-terrorism reforms
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, New Zealand Privacy Commissioner John Edwards discusses the privacy landscape in New Zealand and ongoi...
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Jay Edelson on his $925M privacy class-action win
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
History was made Friday night, April 12, when the largest ever privacy class-action verdict was announced. A federal jury in Oregon decided it would t...