The Best of 2020: When Privacy Got Serious

12/29/20 • 38 min

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We look back to January 2020 - with no crystal ball for Serious Privacy with Paul Breitbarth and K Royal. With 47 episodes and over 25,000 downloads, Season 1 of Serious Privacy is complete. Thank you to our fans! Season 2 starts Global Privacy Day 2021. Our initial ideas were a little different, but K and Paul found their rhythm and a following. Join us as we look back, play some of our favorite moments, and look ahead to 2021.

Our most popular episodes were What Now Right Now? Assessment of the EU Schrems II Decision with Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna of the Future of Privacy Forum and Sophie in ’t Veld, which we put together the same day; Wildly Successful: An Unexpected Career in Privacy with Emerald de Leeuw; and Privacy on the Front Lines: A View from LA with Lillian Russell.

We had phenomenal speakers from around the world (such as Travis LeBlanc, Profs. Dan Solove and Paul Schwartz, Sophie Kwasny, Fabricio da Mota Alves, Vivienne Artz, Marie Penot, Annelies Moens) and amazing topics (such as Sharenting, a tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

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From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.

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Oh Canada: on DCIA, CPPA and PIPEDA (with Jennifer Stoddart & Constantine Karbaliotis)

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On 17 November 2020, the Canadian Minister of Information Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains, introduced bill C-11, the long-awaited update to the federal Canadian privacy legislation. For many years, this legislative update had been rumoured, and now that it was finally put on the table, we can see some sweeping changes. The Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020, which includes the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, "would significantly increase protections to Canadians' personal information by giving Canadians more control and greater transparency when companies handle their personal information", the minister said.

This week, we will take a look at what the new Canadian law might bring, how it would impact companies doing business in Canada and what novel approaches might be an inspiration for the rest of the privacy community. Our guests are two Canadian powerhouses: former Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart (now at Fasken), and nNovation counsel Constantine Karbaliotis. Both share their views on the federal and provincial legislative developments in Canada and look ahead at the potential impact of the new legislation.
Resources

Bill C-11: An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act and the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts - link
Big fines included in Canada's newly proposed national privacy bill - link
Federal privacy reform in Canada: The Consumer Privacy Protection Act - link
Privacy watchdog says he will look for amendments to new privacy legislation - link

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A Work in Progress: A View Inside the Irish DPC (with Helen Dixon)

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Happy Data Protection Day! Paul Breitbarth and K Royal kick off Season 2 of the Serious Privacy podcast with a special guest, Helen Dixon, Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland. She is probably one of the best known data protection regulators around the world, with her office having the duty to supervise most major tech companies doing business in Europe. That comes with a lot of public scrutiny, and also with some fierce criticism.

In this episode, Commissioner Dixon talks about her plans for 2021, which have been publicly disclosed. But of course, we covered some of the major developments in 2020, such as the Court of Justice of the European Union decision on Schrems II back in July, as well as the first financial penalty for a US tech company. The Irish Data Privacy Commission has not been slacking off in the past year, with over 6,000 complaints, more than 7,000 breach reports, and multiple consultations, including input on COVID tracking apps and issuing guidance on CCTV.

Join us as we discuss what the workload under the General Data Protection Regulation has meant for personnel needs in her office, as well as addressing why the Irish DPC handles so many cases on US tech companies. In addition, we talked about the issues in international data transfers, including the appointment of Christopher Hoff in the US to lead the negotiations of a replacement for the invalidated EU-US Privacy Shield. We also touched on data ethics, accountability, and how to build

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