Podcasts by Data Privacy Detective
Data privacy is the footprint of our existence. It is our persona beyond ourselves, with traces of us scattered from birth certificates, Social Security numbers, shopping patterns, credit card histories, photographs, mugshots and health records. In a digital world, where memory is converted to 0’s and 1’s, then instantly transformed into a reproduction even in 3D, personal data is an urgent personal and collective subject. Those who wish to live anonymous lives must take extraordinary measures to succeed in that improbable quest, while those who hope for friendship or fame through the spread of their personal data must learn how to prevent theft of their identity and bank account.
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The internet in its blooming evolution makes personal data big business – for government, the private sector and denizens of the dark alike. The Data Privacy Detective explores how governments balance the interests of personal privacy with competing needs for public security, public health and other communal goods. It scans the globe for champions, villains, protectors and invaders of personal privacy and for the tools and technology used by individuals, business and government in the great competition between personal privacy and societal good order.
We’ll discuss how to guard our privacy by safeguarding the personal data we want to protect. We’ll aim to limit the access others can gain to your sensitive personal data while enjoying the convenience and power of smartphones, Facebook, Google, EBay, PayPal and thousands of devices and sites. We’ll explore how sinister forces seek to penetrate defenses to access data you don’t want them to have. We’ll discover how companies providing us services and devices collect, use and try to exploit or safeguard our personal data.
And we’ll keep up to date on how governments regulate personal data, including how they themselves create, use and disclose it in an effort to advance public goals in ways that vary dramatically from country to country. For the public good and personal privacy can be at odds. On one hand, governments try to deter terrorist incidents, theft, fraud and other criminal activity by accessing personal data, by collecting and analyzing health data to prevent and control disease and in other ways most people readily accept. On the other hand, many governments view personal privacy as a fundamental human right, with government as guardian of each citizen’s right to privacy. How authorities regulate data privacy is an ongoing balance of public and individual interests. We’ll report statutes, regulations, international agreements and court decisions that determine the balance in favor of one or more of the competing interests. And we’ll explore innovative efforts to transcend government control through blockchain and other technology.
In audio posts of 5 to 10 minutes each, you’ll get tips on how to protect your privacy, updates on government efforts to protect or invade personal data, and news of technological developments that shape the speed-of-bit world in which our personal data resides.
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Episode 83 - Ethical Hacking and Data System Assessments from 2022-02-17T00:00
Hacking – it gets a bad rap. For good reason. It’s associated with bad actors who infiltrate an IT system and steal organizational and personal information for criminal purposes. But hacking is sim...
ListenEpisode 82 - India’s Imminent Data Privacy Law from 2022-02-11T00:00
India is about to enact a far-reaching Data Privacy Law. Expected to be passed by April 2022 and in force as early as 1st quarter 2023, it represents a far-reaching comprehensive approach based on ...
ListenEpisode 81 - Quantum Computing and Data Privacy Does a Privacy Apocalypse Draw Near? from 2022-01-28T00:00
Quantum computing – some view its emergence as heralding the end of data privacy. It threatens to penetrate encryption used in conventional computing to give hackers ready access to digital data. W...
ListenEpisode 80 - Backup and Privacy from 2022-01-24T00:00
Backup – what does it have to do with protecting data privacy? And how does a backup service work? What should businesses and individuals know about backing up their digital data? On one hand, a ba...
ListenEpisode 79 - Data Localization - The Case of Taiwan from 2022-01-14T00:00
Taiwan occupies a unique geopolitical position – with a substantial population and robust economy, it lacks formal diplomatic recognition by most countries and is considered by the People’s Republi...
ListenEpisode 78 - Data Localization - The Case of Turkey from 2022-01-05T00:00
Turkey is the first 2022 stop on our global tour about data localization. What is Turkey’s approach to cross-border transfers of personal data about its citizens and residents?
Turkey’s La...
Episode 77 - Data Localization - The Case of Singapore from 2021-12-27T00:00
The Data Privacy Detectives turns his data localization spotlight on the island nation of Singapore. With a per capita income of 64% higher than the United Kingdom’s and a free-market economy that ...
ListenEpisode 76 - Data Localization - The Case of Australia from 2021-12-06T00:00
Our prior podcast episodes detailed how China, Russia, and to a lesser extent India have created barriers to the free flow of personal information across borders. Data localization, sometimes calle...
ListenEpisode 75 - Data Localization - The Case of Russia from 2021-11-09T00:00
We turn to Russia in our data localization series. Russia’s 2015 personal data protection law requires “data operators” to collect and keep information about Russian residents within Russia. It for...
ListenEpisode 74 - Data Localization - The Case of India from 2021-11-02T00:00
In this second podcast episode about data localization, we spotlight India. Since 1993 the world’s largest democracy has enacted data localization laws aiming to keep certain personal records withi...
ListenEpisode 73 - Data Localization - China and Personal Privacy from 2021-10-19T00:00
The internet and the worldwide web – the words envision a global communications system that transcends national borders. But the reality differs. Is it increasingly the splinternet? Is www really a...
ListenEpisode 73 - Data Localization - The Case of China from 2021-10-18T00:00
The internet and the worldwide web – the words envision a global communications system that transcends national borders. But the reality differs. Is it increasingly the splinternet? Is www really a...
ListenEpisode 72 - Personal Privacy Within Your Home from 2021-09-30T00:00
Home is our private place. But in the digital age, how private are our homes? And what can we do to protect our privacy from home invaders? 66% of us rate our highest privacy concern as being viewe...
ListenEpisode 71 - Doxing and Kentucky’s Pioneering Anti-Doxing Statute from 2021-08-30T00:00
Kentucky is perhaps the first state to adopt a comprehensive anti-doxing statute that creates a civil tort of doxing, as well as providing explicit criminal penalties for defined doxing conduct. It...
ListenEpisode 70 - Backup Copies: Preserving Your Privacy and Business Data from 2021-08-17T00:00
Mike Potter’s cat bounced on his keyboard years ago. His hard drive cratered, and he lost his data. But he turned this disaster from feline treachery into a career and a company. Backing up data is...
ListenEpisode 69 - Ransomware, Negotiating With Digital Kidnappers from 2021-07-27T00:00
Ransomware. It’s in the headlines. It’s digital organized crime across borders.
When an organization’s IT system freezes with its data locked by a ransomware gang, what happens? Ransom is ...
Episode 68 - Catching Cyber-Criminals With Digital Forensics from 2021-07-07T00:00
Ransomware attacks, data breaches, digital theft – on the rise. Who are the cyber-criminals? Can they be traced? And what can a company do to minimize risk and respond to an incident?
Join...
Episode 67 - Data Flows After Brexit... For Now from 2021-07-01T00:00
Europe finds UK data privacy system adequate, for now. On June 28, 2021, the Europe Union granted two adequacy decisions to the United Kingdom for personal privacy purposes.
1. Decision o...
Episode 66 - Phone Scams and You from 2021-05-09T00:00
This is a true story of a phone scam of May 2021. The Data Privacy Detective got a call on the home landline.
This scam will succeed in stealing money from countless Americans. It’s target...
Episode 65 - Ransomware Basics from 2021-05-03T00:00
This podcast episode explores ransomware from preventive, legal, and communications angles. While there’s no 100% effective vaccination against a ransomware attack, there are steps enterprises and ...
ListenEpisode 64 - The Two Faces of Browsers and Our Privacy Options from 2021-04-02T00:00
Janus was the Roman god of doors, gates, and transitions. He needed two faces to look in both directions - life and death, past and future. Internet browsers allow us to access and gaze across the ...
ListenEpisode 63 - Your Face, Time To Scrub? from 2021-03-23T00:00
Facial recognition. It’s a hot topic. Targeting, misidentification, and doxing - the dangers are real. So are the benefits – finding criminals and solving crimes, searching for relatives and old fr...
ListenEpisode 62 - TIKTOK and Privacy: Challenges from Europe and America from 2021-02-17T00:00
On February 16, 2021 TikTok was sued in Europe for abusing consumer rights. Millions of Europeans use TikTok to post, share and watch videos 3 to 60 seconds long, ranging from dogs in pink tutus to...
ListenEpisode 61 - How Not To Get Phished! from 2021-01-29T00:00
Data theft set new records in 2020. The major causes are not failures of equipment, software, or services. In an estimated 85% of cybercrime, the cause is us. We make careless mistakes as though we...
ListenEpisode 60 - Cyber Insurance: What it Does and Doesn’t Cover from 2021-01-04T00:00
As businesses move into 2021, what insurance can they have to limit cyber risk? What does cyber insurance cover and not cover? How is it priced and secured?
Data Privacy Detective guest Se...
Episode 59 - Taiwan: A Bridge For East-West Commerce? from 2020-12-21T00:00
Taiwan is one of the “Four Asian Tiger” economies. Its companies hold 66% of the world’s semiconductor market. It consistently tops the USPTO per-capita list of patent files, and its population of ...
ListenEpisode 58 - Personal Privacy and Community IT Systems from 2020-12-20T00:00
Data privacy is about balancing individual concerns and community needs. Without assurance that private information will be responsibly shared and used, people may not share accurate information or...
ListenEpisode 57 - Protecting Data Privacy Within Databases from 2020-12-04T00:00
We all value privacy – at least to some extent. But some of us want to be famous, and all of us want to connect with friends and acquaintances. We like the convenience from technology that requires...
ListenEpisode 56 - Ransomware and Privacy from 2020-11-03T00:00
Ransomware - a sinister type of cyberattack that installs malware onto a computer system. Once inside a network, the malware encrypts documents, freezing the IT systems of entities and individuals ...
ListenEpisode 55 - Differential Privacy and Academic Research from 2020-10-26T00:00
Science and knowledge advance through information gathered, organized, and analyzed. It is only through databases about people that social scientists, public health experts and academics can study ...
ListenEpisode 54 - Contact Tracing Apps and Australia from 2020-09-30T00:00
COVID-19 has changed the world in dramatic ways. Contact tracing emerged as an approach to fight the pandemic’s spread and save lives. The idea is to notify people who have been in close contact wi...
ListenEpisode 53 - Brazil’s New Personal Data Privacy Law from 2020-09-24T00:00
Brazil’s General Personal Data Protection Law or “LGPD” entered into force on September 18, 2020. In this podcast, Thiago Luís Santos Sombra of the prominent Brazilian law firm Mattos Filho, www.ma...
ListenEpisode 52 - Data Brokers: How our Personal Information is Sold from 2020-09-01T00:00
Robo-calls, phishing, identity theft, ads we didn’t ask for – and worse. How does this happen? How does our personal data get collected, used and sold, without our knowing approval? Data brokers ar...
ListenEpisode 51 - Non - Personal Data - India Stakes A Claim On Owning and Regulating NPD from 2020-08-20T00:00
A July 2020 Indian Government Report calls for regulation of Non-Personal Data. Most data privacy laws aim to protect (or not) personal data of people, This Report raises the question whether the w...
ListenEpisode 50 - Intersection Of Cloud Computing And Data Privacy from 2020-08-06T00:00
Cloud computing offers a business the prospect of efficiency and savings by improving data storage capabilities and outsourcing computing resources that a business need not build for itself. But wh...
ListenEpisode 49 - Hong Kong: What Impact Of The National Security Law from 2020-07-31T21:08:18
On June 30, 2020 China enacted a National Security Law applicable in Hong Kong. The UK and USA governments reacted negatively, stoking fears that this could mean the end of the one-country-two syst...
ListenEpisode 48 - Colombia and Data Privacy from 2020-07-05T00:00
Colombia made personal privacy a fundamental right in its 1991 Constitution. A 2008 law protected personal financial information, and in 2012 Colombia adopted Law 1581, a broad code across all sect...
ListenEpisode 47 - Cookies and California, Businesses Beware from 2019-12-23T00:00
Cookies in the internet sense are packets of data that a persons’ computer receives when visiting a website. Without a cookie sent by an online retailer, every time one moves to a different page on...
ListenEpisode 46 - Finland Leads The Way In The Secondary Use Of Health And Social Care Data from 2019-11-17T00:00
Medical data are considered particularly sensitive personal information. Laws and regulations in most countries, including the USA and throughout Europe, generally aim to restrict sharing such info...
ListenEpisode 45 - Will the "Right To Be Forgotten" Rewrite History? from 2019-10-14T00:00
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the so-called European "right to be forgotten" are hot topics as summer turns to autumn.
With the CCPA coming into effect on January 1, 2020 amen...
Episode 44 - First Week Of Fall 2019 Data Privacy News Rundown from 2019-09-22T00:00
What do Ecuador, San Diego, the FBI and Bayfront HMA Medical Center have in common? They’re all in data privacy news this first week of fall 2019. This podcast episode checks the data privacy tempe...
ListenEpisode 43 - What You Need To Know About Maine’s New Privacy Law from 2019-08-28T00:00
Sometimes it seems the United States is more a loose federation than a national government. States have a major role in law-making. Data privacy is no exception. A recent law adopted by the State o...
ListenEpisode 42 - Encryption: When Data Privacy Best Practices Are Not from 2019-08-15T00:00
Encryption is often thought of as the basic and best cybersecurity approach to protecting data in transit or in flight. As guest Ken Morris, CEO and founder of KnectIQ, argues, it’s not. Encrypting...
ListenEpisode 41 - Hong Kong and Data Privacy from 2019-08-05T00:00
One country, two systems – that’s the 50-year agreement that led to Hong Kong’s becoming part of China in 1997. This remains an evolution in progress. Hong Kong retains many of its systems independ...
ListenEpisode 40 - Avoiding Cyber-Disasters: The Human Element from 2019-07-09T00:00
No business or individual wants to be the victim of a disaster. Cyber-attacks can cause exactly that. Individuals are the first line of defense for personal privacy and cybersecurity. For businesse...
ListenEpisode 39 - GDPR One-Year In: The UK Experience from 2019-06-28T00:00
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) turned one year old on May 25, 2019. What’s been the experience? Kim Walker, Co-Chair of the Privacy Team of Shakespeare Martineau, a premier UK l...
ListenEpisode 38 - India and Data Privacy, Get Ready! from 2019-06-20T00:00
India is about to enact a comprehensive data privacy law that will force global and Indian businesses to revise their approach. Stephen Mathias, Co-Chair of the Tech Team at Kochhar & Co., one of I...
ListenEpisode 37 - Catching Serial Killers, Employee Biometrics, Tracking and Personal Data Privacy from 2019-06-08T00:00
What do serial killers, employees who don’t want their fingerprints shared and a U.S. Senator have in common? Data privacy. In this podcast, Victoria Beckman, Co-Chair of Frost Brown Todd’s Privacy...
ListenEpisode 36 - Five Hot U.S. Data Privacy Developments from 2019-05-24T00:00
The Data Privacy Detective turns the spotlight on five American data privacy developments in a conversation with Melissa Kern, Co-Chair of Frost Brown Todd’s Privacy and Data Security Team.
Episode 35 - Hot Topics In Data Privacy - From The US Front from 2019-05-13T00:00
The May 2-3, 2019 International Association of Privacy Professionals Conference featured leading U.S. officials and participants in the data privacy field. Mike Nitardy, a certified Privacy Profess...
ListenEpisode 34 - When Employees Cooperate With Law Enforcement And Expose Personal Data from 2019-04-30T00:00
Picture frontline employees – like those at a motel’s front desk. In come ICE agents with gold badges asking to see guest logs, aiming to identify and track down undocumented aliens. What’s the des...
ListenEpisode 33 - Streaming Data Flows: Key Findings From An Important 2019 Data Privacy Maturity Study from 2019-04-19T00:00
Businesses have far more personal data than they think they have, and information expands by the hour. This is a key finding from an April 2019 Data Privacy Maturity Study from Integris Software – ...
ListenEpisode 32 - Discovering Personal Data: How The Unknown Becomes Known from 2019-03-14T00:00
Businesses hold vast amounts of digital and hard copy data. Much is personal data regulated by differing country and state laws and rules. The first step towards personal data privacy compliance is...
ListenEpisode 31 - Data Incidents And Breaches: What Mid-Sized Companies Do When One Hits from 2019-03-03T00:00
Data incidents arise regularly for businesses. The perpetrators range from sophisticated scoundrels seeking a quick ransom payment, to foreign governments conducting industrial espionage, to thieve...
ListenEpisode 30 - Good news for 2019 from Europe for US firms handling European personal data from 2019-01-03T00:00
The European Commission issued its second review of how the EU PrivacyShield is working in late December 2018. Over 4,000 U.S. firms have signed up so far for this method of dealing with the GDPR ...
ListenEpisode 29 - China’s Social Behavior Measurement: The future or end of privacy? from 2018-11-28T00:00
China should never be viewed through a foreign lens. And yet, what other lens do we have from the USA or most of the world but to do just that? Bloomberg News reported two statistics on November 21...
ListenEpisode 28 - Russian Data Privacy And Protection: Basics For Global Business from 2018-11-19T00:00
Russia governs personal data of its residents based on a generally applicable law. As a federal country, Russia has rules below the federal law, but they conform to standards set by statute through...
ListenEpisode 27 - Digital Authoritarianism An Increasingly Dark Side Of The Internet from 2018-11-04T00:00
The internet was once viewed as an instrument of freedom. It freed communications across borders, aided the ability of people to rally against repressive governments, dramatically lowered entry bar...
ListenEpisode 26 - How Safe Is The Personal Data You Provide To State Governments? from 2018-08-13T00:00
Because U.S. states employ over 16 million people and hold the data of almost all American residents, state governments are major targets for data villains seeking to obtain data about us. How safe...
ListenEpisode 25 - Europe’s GDPR - Representatives And Data Protection Officers from 2018-07-29T00:00
The EU’s GDPR requires businesses outside the EU to appoint a “representative” in a member state and a Data Protection Officer in the EU to consult on and monitor data privacy matters. In this epis...
ListenEpisode 24 - Internet Review Sites And Free Expression from 2018-07-23T00:00
The California Supreme Court faced a challenge that may have been the first stone cast in a global debate about free expression on the internet. The case centered on a San Francisco law firm that g...
ListenEpisode 23 - California’s New Data Privacy Law from 2018-07-04T00:00
“California enacts the strictest online privacy law in the country!” trumpeted CNN/Tech. A statute passed unanimously in the legislature and immediately signed by Governor Brown, AB 375, had the su...
ListenEpisode 22 - GDPR And Non - EU Businesses from 2018-06-16T00:00
Businesses not located in the European Union have tried to understand whether the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), applies to them. And if it does, or if it might, one of the puzzles has ...
ListenEpisode 21 - GDPR Is Here from 2018-05-31T00:00
How did U.S. businesses deal with the launch of GDPR? And what’s its immediate impact on how U.S. businesses address personal information they have? The Data Privacy Detective turns the magnifying ...
ListenEpisode 20 - China's New Data Privacy Standards from 2018-05-14T00:00
GDPR, the European Union’s effort to protect personal data, has dominated the efforts of businesses to deal with personal data across borders. Less noticed is China’s evolving system of controlling...
ListenEpisode 19 - The EU / U.S. and Swiss Privacy Shield from 2018-04-25T00:00
In this podcast episode, the Data Privacy Detective discusses the background to the EU / U.S. and Swiss Privacy Shield and how it relates to the new requirements of the EU General Data Protection R...
ListenEpisode 18 - How Businesses Outside The EU Can Comply With The GDPR from 2018-04-19T00:00
In this podcast, the Data Privacy Detective turns a magnifying glass to how businesses located outside the EU can gather and use personal data that originates in the EU without violating the GDPR. ...
ListenEpisode 17 - Consent: The Meaning Of It Under GDPR from 2018-04-18T00:00
The Data Privacy Detective explored in prior podcasts the broad scope of personal data, the differences between controllers and processors and other matters, including how processing can be lawful....
ListenEpisode 16 - Lawful Processing Of Personal Data Under The GDPR from 2018-04-10T00:00
The EU’s GDPR – the General Data Protection Regulation – becomes law on May 25, 2018. This podcast explores what processing of personal data as defined by the GDPR is considered lawful. “Processing...
ListenEpisode 15 - Personal Data And The GDPR: What’s Covered And What’s Not from 2018-04-09T00:00
The GDPR defines personal data very broadly. But it is not an all-encompassing effort to protect all personal data from every conceivable use or misuse.
“Personal data” is defined by Artic...
Episode 14 - Controllers And Processors – The Differences And Why It Matters For GDPR from 2018-04-02T00:00
Businesses collect, use and store personal data. It’s unavoidable. An email address, phone number, birthdate, postal address – these are all personal data that allow someone to identify or contact ...
ListenEpisode 13 - Does The GDPR Apply To A Business Outside The EU? How And When? from 2018-03-29T00:00
How does a non-EU business know if it must comply with the GDPR? And what specific things are required if the answer is yes? This podcast explores these questions, detailing the specific activities...
ListenEpisode 12 - The GDPR Is Coming from 2018-03-26T00:00
On May 25, 2018 the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation becomes law – not just within the EU but everywhere in the world in some respects. It is deliberately extraterritorial. The E...
ListenEpisode 11 - Tech Support Scams: How to avoid them and what to do if you fall for one from 2017-08-24T00:00
In this podcast, the Data Privacy Detective talks about tech support scams with Michael Severini, Director of Information Security for one of America’s large law firms, Frost Brown Todd LLC.
Episode 10 - Cybersecurity & IoT from 2017-08-09T00:00
The risk of the Internet of Things (IoT) is far more than a stolen credit card number or a banking loss. The risk could be mortal and pervasive if a critical device is hacked and a malicious comman...
ListenEpisode 9 - Phishing - How To Avoid Being Hooked from 2017-08-03T00:00
Phishing is an effort by cybercriminals to use bait in the guise of a familiar email address to hook you into revealing your sensitive information. This podcast tells a real story of two college pr...
ListenEpisode 8 - FBI CyberAlert about massive attack – so what do we do? from 2017-07-28T00:00
On July 25, 2017, the FBI issued a TLP:AMBER alert on its Cyber Watch system about an elaborate cyber-criminal attack underway by sources believed to originate from Iran. The Alert lists about 200 ...
ListenEpisode 7 - Big Data And Your Personal Privacy from 2016-11-29T00:00
Very private information about us can be extremely useful for medical research and other noble purposes – such as medical data that can be aggregated into a big database to help control and combat ...
ListenEpisode 6 - Facial Recognition Technology And Our Privacy from 2016-11-15T00:00
The Data Privacy Detective talks about facial recognition technology, how it affects our privacy and what rights we have to fair use by the government. This episode will acquaint you with FIPPs an...
ListenEpisode 5 - Top Tips On Protecting Your Data from 2016-11-02T18:24:06
So what can you do yourself to protect your personal data and the confidential information of your company or employer? Julia Montgomery of Traveling Coaches shares top tips on how to protect confi...
ListenEpisode 4 - Your Personal Checklist For CyberSecurity from 2016-10-17T00:00
John Hibbs, Chief Information Security Officer for J.P. Morgan Chase, gave a riveting talk in Chicago in the fall of 2016 about the devices that tempt us to spend our waking hours giving them atten...
ListenEpisode 3 - The Battleground Of Data And Disclosure from 2016-10-10T00:00
Personal data is vast and expanding exponentially. And the means of combing through vast quantities of digital data is becoming easier and quicker than ever, with human beings linked to each other ...
ListenEpisode 2 - Google And European Data Privacy: a global blow for data privacy from 2016-10-10T00:00
A 2014 European Court of Justice decision against Google made Google the decision maker about whether to delink its search engine from sites that infringed the rights of European citizens – and rai...
ListenEpisode 1 - Data Privacy Starts With You from 2016-10-05T00:00
Privacy is dead, get over it. This is what a blockchain entrepreneur told a conference at the European Court of Justice on September 30, 2016. And yet, we know this is not true. If privacy were dea...
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