The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S3E15: 'New Certification: Enabling Privacy Engineering in AI Systems' with Amalia Barthel & Eric Lybeck
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I'm joined by Amalia Barthel, founder of Designing Privacy, a consultancy that helps businesses integrate privacy into busines...
S3E14: 'Why We Need Fairness Enhancing Technologies Rather Than PETs' with Gianclaudio Malgieri (Brussels Privacy Hub)
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I chat with Gianclaudio Malgieri, an expert in privacy, data protection, AI regulation, EU law, and human rights. Gianclaudio is an Associate P...
S3E13: 'Building Safe AR / VR/ MR / XR Technology" with Spatial Computing Pioneer Avi Bar Zeev (XR Guild)
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Avi Bar-Zeev, a true tech pioneer and the Founder and President of The XR Guild. With over three d...
S3E12: 'How Intentional Experimentation in A/B Testing Supports Privacy' with Matt Gershoff (Conductrics)
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I'm joined by Matt Gershoff, Co-founder and CEO of Conductrics, a software company specializing in A/B testing, multi-armed bandit techniq...
S3E11: 'Decision-Making Governance & Design: Combating Dark Patterns with Fair Patterns' with Marie Potel-Saville (Amurabi & FairPatterns)
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Marie Potel-Saville joins me to shed light on the widespread issue of dark patterns in design. With her background in law, Marie foun...
S3E10: 'How a Privacy Engineering Center of Excellence Shifts Privacy Left' with Aaron Weller (HP)
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sat down with Aaron Weller, the Leader of HP's Privacy Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE), focused on providing technical ...
S3E9: 'Building a Culture of Privacy & Achieving Compliance without Sacrificing Innovation' with Amaka Ibeji (Cruise)
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m joined by Amaka Ibeji, Privacy Engineer at Cruise where she designs and implements robust privacy programs and controls. In this episode,...
S3E8: 'Recent FTC Enforcement: What Privacy Engineers Need to Know' with Heidi Saas (H.T. Saas)
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, I am joined by Heidi Saas, a privacy lawyer with a reputation for advocating for products and services built with privacy...
S3E7: 'Personal CRM: Embracing Digital Minimalism & Privacy Empowerment' with Chris Zeunstrom (Yorba)
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode, I chat with Chris Zeunstrom, the Founder and CEO of Ruca and Yorba. Ruca is a global design cooperative and founder support ...
S3E6: 'Keys to Good Privacy Implementation: Exploring Anonymization, Consent, & DSARs' with Jake Ottenwaelder (Integrative Privacy)
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, I sat down with Jake Ottenwaelder, Principal Privacy Engineer at Integrative Privacy LLC. Throughout our conversation, ...
S3E5: 'Nonconformist Innovation in Modern Digital Identity' with Steve Tout (Integrated Solutions Group)
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, I am joined by Steve Tout, Practice Lead at Integrated Solutions Group (ISG) and Host of The Nonconformist Innovation Pod...
S3E4: 'Supporting Developer Accountability for Privacy' with Jake Ward (Data Protocol)
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I chat with Jake Ward, the Co-Founder and CEO of Data Protocol, to discuss how the Data Protocol platform supports developers' account...
S3E3: 'Shifting Left from Practicing Attorney to Privacy Engineer’ with Jay Averitt (Microsoft)
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Jay Averitt, Senior Privacy Product Manager and Privacy Engineer at Microsoft, where he transitioned his career from Technology ...
S3E2: 'My Top 20 Privacy Engineering Resources for 2024' with Debra Farber (Shifting Privacy Left)
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Honor of Data Privacy Week 2024, we're publishing a special episode. Instead of interviewing a guest, Debra shares her 'Top 20 Privacy En...
S3E1: "Privacy-preserving Machine Learning and NLP" with Patricia Thaine (Private AI)
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Patricia Thaine, Co-founder and CEO of Private AI, where she leads a team of experts in developing cutting-edge solutions using ...
S2E39: 'Contextual Responsive Intelligence & Data Minimization for AI Training & Testing' with Kevin Killens (AHvos)
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Kevin Killens, CEO of AHvos, a technology service that provides AI solutions for data-heavy businesses using a proprietary techn...
S2E38: "PrivacyGPT: Bringing an AI Privacy Startup to Market" with Nabanita De (Privacy License)
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Nabanita De, Software Engineer, Serial Entrepreneur, and Founder & CEO at Privacy License where she's on a mission to t...
S2E37: "Embedding Privacy Engineering into Real Estate" with Yusra Ahmad and Luke Beckley (The RED Foundation)
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guests this week are Yusra Ahmad, CEO of Acuity Data, and Luke Beckley, Data Protection Officer and Privacy Governance Manager at Correla, who work...
S2E36: "Privacy Engineering Contracting: State of the Market & 2024 Predictions" with Jared Coseglia (TRU Staffing)
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I welcome Jared Coseglia, co-founder and CEO at TRU Staffing Partners, a contract staffing & executive placement search firm that repre...
S2E35: "Embed Ethics into Your SDLC: From Reactive Firefighting to 'Responsible Firekeeping'" with Mathew Mytka & Alja Isaković (Tethix)
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guests are Mathew Mytka and Alja Isakovoić, Co-Founders of Tethix, a company that builds products that embed ethics into the fabric of ...
S2E34: "Embedding Privacy by Design & Threat Modeling for AI" with Isabel Barberá (Rhite & PLOT4ai)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Isabel Barberá, Co-founder, AI Advisor, and Privacy Engineer at Rhite , a consulting firm specializing in responsible and tru...
S2E33: "Using Privacy Code Scans to Shift Left into DevOps" with Vaibhav Antil (Privado)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I sat down with Vaibhav Antil ('Vee'), Co-founder & CEO at Privado, a privacy tech platform that's leverages privacy cod...
S2E32: "Privacy Red Teams, Protecting People & 23andme's Data Leak" with Rebecca Balebako (Balebako Privacy Engineer)
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Rebecca Balebako, Founder and Principal Consultant at Balebako Privacy Engineer, where she enables data-driven organizations ...
S2E31: "Leveraging a Privacy Ontology to Scale Privacy Processes" with Steve Hickman (Epistimis)
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Steve Hickman, the founder of Epistimis, a privacy-first process design tooling startup that evaluate rules and enables the fix...
S2E30: "LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, & GenAI Architectural Considerations" with Shashank Tiwari (Uno)
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Shashank Tiwari, a seasoned engineer and product leader who started with algorithmic systems of Wall Street before becoming ...
S2E29 - "Synthetic Data in AI: Challenges, Techniques & Use Cases" with Andrew Clark and Sid Mangalik (Monitaur)
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week I welcome Dr. Andrew Clark, Co-founder & CTO of Monitaur, a trusted domain expert on the topic of machine learning, auditing and assuran...
S2E28: "BigTech Privacy; Responsible AI; and Bias Bounties at DEF CON" with Jutta Williams (Reddit)
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I welcome Jutta Williams, Head of Privacy & Assurance at Reddit, Co-founder of Humane Intelligence and BiasBounty.ai, Privacy & Res...
S2E27: "Automated Privacy Decisions: Usability vs. Lawfulness" with Simone Fischer-Hübner & Victor Morel
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I welcome Victor Morel, PhD and Simone Fischer-Hübner, PhD to discuss their recent paper, "Automating Privacy Decisions – where to draw...
S2E26: "Building Ethical Machines" with Reid Blackman, PhD (Virtue Consultants)
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I welcome philosopher, author, & AI ethics expert, Reid Blackman, Ph.D., to discuss Ethical AI. Reid authored the book, "Ethical M...
S2E25: "Anonymization & Deletion at Scale" with Engin Bozdag (Uber) & Stefano Bennati (HERE)
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're chatting with Engin Bozdag, Senior Staff Privacy Architect at Uber, and Stefano Bennati, Privacy Engineer at HERE Technologies. ...
S2E24: "Cloud-Native Privacy Engineering via DevPrivOps" with Elias Grünewald (TU Berlin)
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Elias Grünewald, Privacy Engineering Research Associate at Technical University, Berlin, where he focuses on cloud-native priv...
S2E23: "Navigating the Privacy Engineering Job Market" with George Ratcliffe (Stott & May)
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, my guest is George Ratcliffe, Head of the Privacy GRC & Cryptography Executive Search Practice at recruitment firm, Stott & May.In ...
S2E22: Why You Need an 'Outside-In' Approach to Privacy Risk Monitoring with Sanjay Saini (Privaini)
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for an eye-opening conversation with Sanjay Saini, the founder and CEO of Privaini, a groundbreaking privacy tech company. Sanjay's jou...
S2E21: Containing Big Tech, Federal Privacy Law, & Investing in Privacy Tech with Tom Kemp (Kemp Au Ventures)
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Tom Kemp: author; entrepreneur; former Co-Founder & CEO of Centrify (now called Delinia), a leading cybersecurity cloud pr...
S2E20: Location Privacy, Data Brokers & Privacy Datasets with Jeff Jockisch
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Jeff Jockisch, Partner at Avantis Privacy and co-host of the weekly LinkedIn Live event, Your Bytes = Your Rights, a town hall-...
S2E19: Privacy Threat Modeling - Mitigating Privacy Threats in Software with Kim Wuyts (KU Leuven)
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Kim Wuyts, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the DistriNet Research Group at the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven...
S2E18: Making Digital Contact Cards Private, Shareable & Updatable with Brad Dominy (Neucards)
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I am delighted to welcome my next guest, Brad Dominy. Brad is a MacOS and iOS developer and Founder & Inventor of Neucards, a privacy-preserving a...
S2E17 - Noise in the Machine: How to Assess, Design & Deploy 'Differential Privacy' with Damien Desfontaines (Tumult Labs)
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, I speak with Damien Desfontaines, also known by the pseudonym “Ted”, who is the Staff Scientist at Tumult Labs, a startu...
S2E16: Words with Impact; Communication Tips for Privacy Technologists with Melanie Ensign (Discernible)
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I'm delighted to welcome guest, Melanie Ensign, Founder and CEO of Discernible, where she helps organizations adopt effective communication strat...
S2E15: 'Watching the Watchers: Transparency & Control Research' with Umar Iqbal, PhD (University of Washington)
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Umar Iqbal, PhD, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University ...
S2E14: Addressing Privacy with Static Analysis Techniques Like ‘Taint-Tracking’ & ‘Data Flow Analysis’ with Suchakra Sharma (Privado.ai)
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we welcome Suchakra Sharma, Chief Scientist at Privado.ai, where he builds code analysis tools for data privacy & security. Previously,...
S2E13: Diving Deep into Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with Kurt R. Rohloff (Duality Technologies)
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I am delighted to welcome this week’s guest, Kurt Rohloff. Kurt is the CTO and Co-Founder of Duality Technologies, a privacy tech company that enabl...
S2E12: 'Building Powerful ML Models with Privacy & Ethics' with Katharine Jarmul (ThoughtWorks)
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I'm joined by Katharine Jarmul, Principal Data Scientist at Thoughtworks & author of the the forthcoming book, "Practical Dat...
S2E11: Lessons Learned as a Privacy Engineering Manager with Menotti Minutillo (ex-Twitter & Uber)
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we gain insights into the profession of privacy engineering with guest Menotti Minutillo, a Sr. Privacy Engineering Manager with 15+ years ...
S2E10: Leveraging Synthetic Data and Privacy Guarantees with Lipika Ramaswamy (Gretel.ai)
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we welcome Lipika Ramaswamy, Senior Applied Scientist at Gretel AI, a privacy tech company that makes it simple to generate anonymized and ...
S2E9: Personalized Noise, Decaying Photos, & Digital Forgetting with Apu Kapadia (Indiana University Bloomington)
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I'm delighted to welcome Apu Kapadia, Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at the School of Informatics and Computing, ...
S2E8: Leveraging Federated Learning for Input Privacy with Victor Platt
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Victor Platt is a Senior AI Security and Privacy Strategist who previously served as Head of Security and Privacy for privacy tech company, Integrate....
S2E7: Bring Your Own Data, ChatGPT & Personal AIs with Markus Lampinen (Prifina)
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation with Markus Lampinen, Co-founder and CEO at Prifina, a personal data platform, we discuss meaty topics like: Prifina’s approach...
S2E6: 'Privacy Left Trust' with Gary LaFever (Anonos)
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I welcome Gary LaFever, co-CEO & GC at Anonos; WEF Global Innovator; and a solutions-oriented futurist with a computer science and legal ba...
S2E5 - What's New in Privacy-by-Design with R. Jason Cronk (IOPD)
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
R. Jason Cronk is the Founder of the Institute of Operational Privacy Design (IOPD) and CEO of Enterprivacy Consulting Group, as well as the author of...
S2E4: Training the Next Wave of Privacy Engineers with Nishant Bhajaria (Uber)
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nishant Bhajaria is the Director of Privacy Engineering, Architecture, & Analytics at Uber and Author of "Data Privacy: A Runbook for Enginee...
S2E3: Fixing Consent & Transparency on the Web with Mark Lizar (Digital Transparency Lab)
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To kick off Data Privacy Week 2023, I’m joined by Mark Lizar, CEO of the Digital Transparency Lab and Founder of 0PN: Open Privacy Network. Mark is...
S2E2: "Software Libraries, SBOMs & Wicked Privacy, Oh My!" with Michelle Dennedy (PrivacyCode)
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Dennedy is Co-Founder & CEO of PrivacyCode, Inc., Partner at Privatus Consulting, and the Co-Author of The Privacy Engineer's Manife...
S2E1: Driving Privacy Left: Vehicular Privacy with Andrea Amico (Privacy4Cars)
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Of the almost 300 million cars that are in circulation in the U.S., the vast majority collect consumer’s personal information. Every time you connec...
S1E9: Funding Web3 Privacy & Recent Web3 Trust Fails with Jim Nasr
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I continue my conversation with Jim Nasr, CEO of Acoer about privacy and using distributed ledger technology (DLT). We discuss his work lea...
S1E8: Leveraging Distributed Ledgers for Privacy Assurance with Jim Nasr
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I am joined by Jim Nasr, CEO of Acoer. I had the pleasure of collaborating with Jim on several projects during my 6-month stint as Privacy Stra...
S1E7: Privacy Engineers: The Next Generation with Lorrie Cranor (CMU)
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I’m joined by Lorrie Cranor, FORE Systems Professor, Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon Univer...
S1E6: The Explosion of Privacy Tech with Lourdes Turrecha (TROPT)
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I’m joined by Lourdes Turrecha, Founder & Chief Privacy Tech Strategist at The Rise of Privacy Tech (TROPT). TROPT's mission is ...
S1E5: The Rise of Global Data Sharing Platforms with Stephen Wilson (Constellation Research)
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I’m joined by Stephen Wilson, accomplished data protection innovator, researcher, analyst and advisor who leads Digital Safety and Privacy efforts a...
S1E4: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Privacy Engineering & Creative Privacy with Mert Can Boyar (Privacy Innovation Lab)
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I interview Mert Can Boyar, Director of Privacy Innovation Lab at Bilgi University and Founder of privacy tech company, Verilogy. M...
S1E3: "Will 'Global Privacy Control' (GPC) Fix Web Privacy?" with Roy Smith (PrivacyCheq)
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I’m joined by Roy Smith, CEO and founder of PrivacyCheq, a privacy tech company that develops privacy-enhancing technologies for mo...
S1E2: "The Magic of Zero Knowledge Biometrics" with Dave Burnett (ZeroBiometrics)
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
(Episode Transcription)This week, I’m joined by Dave Burnett, VP of Strategy at ZeroBiometrics, to discuss his company’s cutting edge approach to ...
S1E1: "Guardians of the Metaverse" with Kavya Pearlman (XRSI)
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
(Transcription)Welcome to the first episode of Shifting Privacy Left. To kick off the show, I’m joined by Kavya Pearlman, Exec Director of The eXten...