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TerraTrue's The Privacy Beat, featuring host Angelique Carson and guests, is a quick-hit rundown of the important privacy news-you-can use of the week. Listen to sound smart at Happy Hour, informed at strategy meetings, or just to enjoy a conversation between people who speak your language and understand your pain.

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    • Feb 26, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 44m AVG DURATION
    • 32 EPISODES

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    The Privacy Beat podcast is a fantastic resource for anyone looking to stay up-to-date on the latest policy news in a convenient, bite-sized format. As someone who doesn't have the time or expertise to track these developments on my own, I am grateful for this podcast that allows me to sound knowledgeable with my clients. The return of Angelique, the OG privacy podcaster, is a welcome addition to the cast of characters on the show. I particularly appreciate hearing young voices and nextgen privacy professionals, as it brings fresh perspectives to the discussions.

    One of the best aspects of The Privacy Beat podcast is its ability to distill complex policy news into easily digestible episodes. The hosts do a great job of breaking down complicated topics and explaining them in a way that is accessible and engaging. Additionally, their inclusion of different voices and perspectives ensures that listeners get a well-rounded understanding of the issues at hand. The humor injected into the discussions also helps keep things interesting and prevents the podcast from becoming dry or monotonous.

    While there are many strengths to this podcast, one possible downside is that it may not delve deep enough into certain topics. Given its focus on providing bite-sized updates, there might be times when listeners crave more in-depth analysis or discussion. However, this can be seen as a trade-off for the convenience and accessibility that The Privacy Beat offers.

    In conclusion, The Privacy Beat podcast is an invaluable resource for staying informed about privacy policy news without dedicating excessive time and energy to tracking developments on your own. With its informative yet entertaining approach, this podcast ensures that listeners stay up-to-date while being entertained. Whether you're a privacy professional or simply interested in keeping tabs on important policy changes, The Privacy Beat is definitely worth a listen.



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    Latest episodes from The Privacy Beat

    Mini-episode: What this new CCPA settlement means for data sharing

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 25:29


    In this episode, Goodwin Procter's Omer Tene unpacks the recent settlement between DoorDash and California's attorney general. It's the second enforcement action under CCPA, and it's significant because the DoorDash case calls into question how the CCPA's provisions on data sharing and selling could be enforced in the future. Listen up for what you need to know!

    Direction unclear? He's got some tips on how to grow your privacy career

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2024 66:18


    In this episode, OpenAP General Counsel and CPO Andy Dale chats with Angelique about the tactics and strategies that have helped him grow not only his privacy career, but also his tribe of peers-turned-friends. The two also discuss the regulatory squeeze adtech's feeling, the risks vs. rewards of using location data, and whether dentists are as nice as privacy pros. If you know a dentist, please have them call in.

    PHIL IS BACK! And he's dropping knowledge again

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024 50:39


    In this episode, Phil Lee returns! Phil is a self-proclaimed tech nerd, but that comes in handy, given the uptick in questions on deploying AI without breaching privacy rules or consumer expectations. He says to understand the tech, you've got to play with the tech, which he's happy to do. More importantly, he says: To understand the potential harms of any deployment, you've got to get representatives from the potentially impacted parties in the room with you. Plus, the future of cookies. Are they dying or what?

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    Uber's CPO on her gig's unique challenges, and raising *all* the boats

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2024 53:25


    In this episode of the podcast, host Angelique Carson chats with longtime friend and Uber CPO Ruby Zefo. The two discuss Ruby's working relationship with product & eng, the unique challenges a company like Uber faces, and why she's so focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the name of raising everyone's boats.

    What are you waiting for? You already know what to do

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2023 68:13


    In this episode, Asana Head of Global Privacy & DPO Whitney Merrill discusses bridging the knowledge gap that most organizations face in the age of AI, why privacy pros need not wait for pending laws and regulations to do their jobs well, and how to approach the challenge of communicating privacy's pillars with cross-functional teams.

    What Biden's EO on AI signals you should do today to protect your org -- and yourself

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2023 55:11


    Everywhere you turn it's AI AI AI. But that's for good reason: We're deploying it now at our organizations without a full understanding of the risks we're undertaking. Plus, we don't have guardrails yet, and a federal law ain't gonna happen immediately. In this episode, let's talk about what Biden's recent executive order on AI signals you should start doing at your organization to protect it -- and you -- from the pitfalls around privacy.

    It's a little bit of everything, tbh

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2023 59:24


    In this episode, longtime friends Angelique Carson, Goodwin Procter's Gabe Maldoff, and the IAPP's Cobun Zweifel-Keegan discuss some of today's privacy pro conundrums, including data brokers' longevity, why it takes some companies so long to implement the GDPR, and Angelique's peanut butter hangover. Plus, a special guest makes a surprise cameo at the top!

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    Soooo, is this Data Privacy Framework safe to use, or?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2023 44:28


    In July 2023, the EU and the U.S. signed an agreement to replace the Privacy Shield with the revised Data Privacy Framework. But Schrems has said he'll try to take it down, just like he did Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield, and a French lawmaker has filed an official challenge. Julian Flamant, senior associate at Hogan Lovells, talks us through the changes and what we should EVEN DO!

    He's privacy's Larry David

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2023 74:58


    In this episode, Joe Jerome makes his triumphant return across the mic from Angelique. In a free-ranging conversation, the two frenemies discuss what the metaverse actually is, the latest legislation aimed at protecting kids online, and why you should never take a photo of someone with their mouth open.

    A reporter's take on the privacy deluge

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2023 52:54


    This whole privacy situation is insane these days. Sometimes it helps to have a privacy journo talk about the big themes and takeaways. Tonya Riley, a reporter for Cyberscoop, is tracking the latest trends in privacy enforcement. She'll tell you a bit about it in this insightful dispatch.

    The data privacy case that might shift U.S. surveillance policy (after all)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2023 44:53


    Welp, the Irish DPC fined Meta $1.3 billion, the highest ever GDPR fine, and it ordered Meta to stop transferring data from the EU to the U.S. The implication, obviously, is that every other company using SCCs to transfer data is also in breach of the GDPR. But the problem is at the political level! We can't solve this organizationally. So, what's a company to even do? Eduardo Ustaran talks you off the ledge.

    Why everyone's losing it over Washington State's d00zy of a privacy law

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2023 40:18


    Everyone's losing it over this Washington State privacy law. The impetus for the bill was to cover gaps in HIPAA, and the Dobbs v. Jackson decision lit a fire in regulators, putting health-data privacy protections on a fast-track that never slowed. Mike Hintze, co-founder of Hintze Law, says this one “goes well beyond what any other privacy law has done.” Here's what he means.

    Through blackouts and bombs in Ukraine, his privacy studies paid off

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2023 31:23


    Nazar Dudchak is a law student at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. He recently won the prestigious honor of "best orator" at a moot court competition in Iceland. But his journey to learn privacy's main tenets and argue a successful case faced some hurdles. The main problem: Ukraine was under attack, and sometimes even electricity wasn't a guarantee.

    [Bonus episode] Iowa passed a privacy law. Huzzah?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2023 17:31


    Iowa is the first state in 2023 to pass a comprehensive privacy law. What does it contain? Is it a game-changer? In this episode, Keir Lamont, director of U.S. legislation at the Future of Privacy Forum, and David Stauss, partner at Husch Blackwell, talk us through why privacy peeps are calling this law a tech company's dream.

    Illinois' BIPA (not BEE-PAH) is having a CCPA-like moment

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2023 49:32


    Jay Edelson has been using Illinois' Biometric Privacy Act to take companies like Facebook and Clearview AI to task for alleged misuse. And he's had great success. Without a federal law on biometrics in the U.S., states have started introducing their own versions of BIPA in rapid succession. In fact, 17 U.S. states have introduced a biometric privacy law this year already. In this episode, Edelson discusses his recent wins and his forecast for the BIPA landscape in the future.

    Personalized ads: 'We'll survive Schrems, damnit!'

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2023 40:32


    The future of personalized ads felt wildly uncertain when the Irish DPC's final decision on the Meta case came down. The decision sent Privacy Twitter into a frenzy over the implications: You can't bundle personalized ads into the contract for the service itself, the DPC said. At the same time, the EU and U.S. are still trying to shake hands on a new data-transfer agreement. Luckily, Phil Lee is a master of both topics, and he's here to talk you off the ledge.

    The states are dropping privacy bills like they're hot: Here's a debrief

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2023 41:42


    It's only January, and already U.S. states have introduced eight comprehensive privacy bills (and counting). In this episode, Future of Privacy Forum's Keir Lamont and Husch Blackwell's David Stauss talk about trends in each bill and what we should expect in 2023.

    WELP, that was 2022, I guess

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2022 57:16


    In this free-ranging episode, host Angelique Carson chats with longtime pals Gabe Maldoff, privacy attorney at Goodwin Procter, and Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, IAPP's managing DC director, about the big privacy news in 2022. There's lots of talk about CPRA, the Sephora case, California's need to constantly pass laws, and why Gabe hates cruises.

    (Part 2 of 2) CA Deputy AG Stacey Schesser on enforcing America's flagship privacy law

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2022 27:44


    In this episode, part 2 of 2, California Deputy Attorney General Stacey Schesser talks about what she thinks the attorney general could have done differently, the Sephora case, and what's going on with operationalizing Global Privacy Controls.

    CA Deputy AG Stacey Schesser on enforcing America's flagship privacy law

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2022 36:08


    In this interview (part 1 of 2), host Angelique Carson chats with California Deputy Attorney General Stacey Schesser on how everything changed with the CCPA. Schesser talks about the agency's recent Sephora enforcement action, Global Privacy Controls, and how she'll work with the newly-established CPPA. It's a Privacy Geek's buffet, if you will.

    How to do that TIA so it's not a real P in the A

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2022 53:58


    In this episode, Julian Flamant, an attorney at Hogan Lovells and longtime pal of Angelique's, talks about Chicago-based mobsters, that looming CPRA deadline, and how to keep transfer impact assessments, TIAs, from becoming a P in your A.

    Your IAPP PSR recap, for those with FOMO

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2022 37:42


    In this episode, host Angelique Carson brings you live interviews from the show floor at the IAPP's P.S.R. 22, including what everyone was buzzing about, what happened at the big Rodeo party, and how to avoid serial killers.

    He basically took down Cambridge Analytica

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2022 41:10


    In this episode, Prof. David Carroll discusses his accidental fame after as a focus in the Netflix documentary The Great Hack, which followed Carroll's lawsuit against Cambridge Analytica — before its fall — to retrieve his data from the data broker. As we know now, the lawsuit revealed more than Carroll's data and would lead to years of Facebook litigation, lawsuits and settlements.

    California's new children's law could dismantle the status quo: Is that bad?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2022 39:57


    Last week, Eric Goldman visited the podcast to rip California's Age-Appropriate Design Code to shreds. Some of you did not like that. On today's episode, Stanford University's Dr. Jen King has a different take. “We've had nearly thirty years of design masquerading as being values-agnostic driving the development of the internet. Do we really want to defend this status quo?”

    Um, California passed a children's privacy law?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2022 38:13


    While most of us were distracted by talks of a federal privacy bill, California's Senate passed its Age-Appropriate Design Code. It awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature, and then it's law. Santa Clara Law School's Eric Goldman hates this bill a whole lot, and he wants to tell you why.

    Who's gonna own the data in the end?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2022 43:47


    Reporting on a specific industry gives journalists unique views on the inside baseball and its players. In this free-ranging conversation, host Angelique Carson talks to longtime privacy journalist Mike Swift about the ADPPA, the Biden administration's aims on consumer privacy in the U.S., and who's gonna own the data in the end: the companies or the consumers?

    Are we about to pass two children's privacy laws?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2022 41:27


    Of late, there's plenty of movement on children's privacy law. You've got codes of conduct in the U.K. and California, plus two federal bills headed for U.S. Senate votes that would update COPPA and regulate "addictive" services geared toward kids. The Future of Privacy Forum's Lauren Merk, U.S. youth and education policy counsel, lives and breathes this stuff, here's what you should know.

    Privacy's hiring. Getting a gig is hard. Why?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2022 39:11


    By now it's not really a secret that privacy's got a hiring problem. Recruiters and managers want “years” of GDPR experience, but then complain they can't find “qualified” candidates. Meanwhile, talented peeps are searching for gigs. So what's the deal? In this podcast, Angelique Carson talks to Asana's Sherry Truong, VF Corporation's Ryan Torrey, and Cleo Li about what hiring managers are missing, and what job candidates can do to optimize their chances for success in privacy.

    This federal privacy bill going anywhere?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2022 46:53


    Privacy Twitter basically exploded upon the announcement of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act. Maybe Congress has finally found a middle ground? In this episode of The Privacy Beat Podcast, host Angelique Carson chats with Cam Kerry of the Brookings Institution, Omer Tene of Goodwin Proctor, and Maneesha Mithal of Wilson Sonsini about why it feels like Rs and Ds went to couple's therapy and came out with this bill.

    The Dobbs decision: We dissent

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2022 34:44


    June 24 changed our lives. The Supreme Court's “Dobb's decision” overturned Roe v. Wade, stating women no longer have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. In this episode, Twilio's Hannah Poteat, Quora's Lena Ghamrawi , and Asana's Whitney Merrill discuss what this means for women and what we, as privacy professionals, can and should do to stop the erosion of human rights in the U.S.

    You read these CPRA draft regs?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2022 29:10


    In this episode of The Privacy Beat, host Angelique Carson chats with fans Nick Ginger and Sheri Porath Rockwell, privacy attorneys in California. The three discuss this week's hearing on federal privacy legislation and what to make of these new draft regulations on the California Privacy Rights Act.

    Let's get this poddy started!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2022 31:43


    In this inaugural episode of The Privacy Beat, host Angelique Carson invites two of her privacy besties, Cobun Zweifel-Keegan and Gabriel Maldoff, to help explain this new podcast and what it aims to do. In a whimsical conversation between friends, the three play with potential names for the show and, later, find themselves dissecting Web 3.0.

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