Serious Privacy

Serious Privacy

Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth & Ralph O'Brien

Episodes 279
Avg. Duration 39m
Activity Highly Active
Since Jan 2020
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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About This Podcast

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 are on the front lines working on the newest issues in handling personal data. Real information on your schedule - because the world needs serious privacy. 


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Recent Episodes

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

Mar 04, 2026 38m

Send a textWelcome 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,…

S7E5 The Agents and the Humans

Feb 25, 2026 37m

Send a textWelcome 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,…

S7E4 Our Sovereign Opinions (Week in Privacy)

Feb 18, 2026 38m

Send a textWelcome 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…

S7E3 DSAR Overload (with Josh Schwartz)

Feb 11, 2026 35m

Send a textWelcome 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…

S7E2 The Kemp Effect: From Silicon Valley to Privacy Regulator

Feb 04, 2026 37m

Send a textWelcome 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…

S7E1 Happy Data Protection/Privacy Day!

Jan 28, 2026 35m

Send a textWe 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…

S6E47 2025 - oh how we loved thee!

Dec 31, 2025 31m

Send a textJoin 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…

S6E46 Optimism and AI in the same sentence?!

Dec 26, 2025 41m

Send a textOn 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,…

S6E45 Arc-ing into the New Year!

Dec 17, 2025 41m

Send a textOn 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.…

S6E44 A rip roaring week in privacy with Paul and K

Dec 10, 2025 33m

Send a textJoin 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 -…

S6E43 An Open Letter from Open Rights Group

Dec 04, 2025 35m

Send a textOn 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 -…

S6E42 Tea Time with Teresa - what do do if you are CPO?

Nov 26, 2025 33m

Send a textOn 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,…

S6E41 We do Redo - what's happening with GDPR? [Live from Privacy Space]

Nov 19, 2025 34m

Send a textOn 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…

S6E40 If it ain't California, it's Texas

Nov 10, 2025 38m Transcript

Send a textIn this episode of Serious Privacy, Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal discuss the weekly news, including the Google settlement in Texas, ClearviewAI and much more. If you have comments or…

S6E39 A week in Privacy with Paul and Ralph

Oct 29, 2025 36m

Send a textJoin us on this episode of Serious Privacy, as Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien present the breaking news and hot events in data protection and privacy while Dr. K Royal was out this…

S6E38 The Tash Dash: a mini marathon on data protection

Oct 23, 2025 42m

Send a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Dr. K Royal connects with Tash Whitaker to cover all things top of mind in data protection. Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien were out, so Tash and K hit…

S6E37 The pattern is full with this week in privacy

Oct 20, 2025 41m

Send a textOn this episode of Serious Privacy, hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal bring you a full week in privacy and data protection featuring new laws, new decisions, and new…

S6E36 Ideas about IDs

Oct 08, 2025 34m

Send a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting, talk about the UK's plans to introduce a mandatory digital identity card. This is not the first time a…

S6E35 Privacy Programs with a Touch of Magic (with Paul Iagnocco)

Oct 01, 2025 38m

Send a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O’Brien of Reinbo Consulting, and Dr. K Royal speak with Paul Iagnocco, Head of Customer Enablement at our sponsor TrustArc. Apart…

S6E34 Fun with Facts plus... Korea!

Sep 27, 2025 31m

Send a textOn this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth brings us news from the Global Privacy Assembly held in Korea and Dr. K Royal has fun with privacy trivia! Ralph O'Brien is out this…

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