Privacy Paths

The Apple AirTag debacle shows that there is a need to diversify privacy to protect people and brands. Diversifying privacy means more than diversifying product development and privacy teams. It means looking outside the compliance bubble and centring marginal voices, including those that challenge the status quo. Abigail Dubiniecki talks to Stewart Dresner and Tom Cooper and expla

Age verification and estimation by companies to protect the privacy and safety online for young peopleStewart Dresner talks to Iain Corby, Executive Director, The Age Verification Providers’ Association (AVPA) and Project Manager, euCONSENT. There is consensus that young people should be safe online. But how should organisations behave in an ethical way? How to reconcile the comm

Justin Antonipillai, Founder and CEO, WireWheel, discusses with Helena Wootton and Stewart Dresner the privacy laws most likely to be adopted in the US. His experience of leading President Barack Obama’s attempt to have a federal privacy law adopted by the US Congress enables him to explain why he considers such a law in the next five years as unlikely. The new Chair of the Feder

Canada leads on applying privacy law to sales of recreational cannabis. Michael McEvoy, Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (BC), Canada, explains why and how he has applied the BC privacy law to the legal retail sale of recreational cannabis. To coincide with the legalisation of recreational cannabis, he published in October 2018, Protecting Personal Informa

Guernsey is an independent island jurisdiction located between the United Kingdom and France. In this podcast, Emma Martins, Guernsey’s Data Protection Commissioner, speaks to Valerie Taylor and Stewart Dresner about this Channel Island’s adequacy declaration from the EU, and its importance for its digital economy of retaining free and safe data transfers between Guernsey, the

Laura Linkomies talks to two privacy experts, Marta Dunphy-Moriel, Partner at Deloitte, and Alexander Dittel, Associate Director at Deloitte about privacy issues with adtech. Learn what companies using adtech can do to be transparent and comply with the UK Data Protection Act.

Do app developers gather information in a legally sound way? Apps often involve trading one’s personal data for a usually free useful or entertaining service. Data privacy laws apply to apps so how can developers navigate this legal terrain?We explore Clubhouse, the audio meeting app which is on a rising trend, and the privacy laws which apply to it, as they do to all apps.The ke

Laura Linkomies talks to Jenai Nissim, Director of HelloDPO and James Young, Legal Counsel for the Frasers Hospitality Group, the global hospitality company which includes Malmaison Hotels. They cover what is included in the role of Data Protection Champions, how they won top executive buy-in, made Data Protection Champions work on a win-win basis, and how benefits have rolled out

China issued a draft law on the Protection of Personal Information in October 2020. Now that the consultation period has closed and the law is expected in 2021, Yan Luo, Partner at Covington & Burling’s Beijing office explains some of the key aspects of the draft and what it will mean for companies doing business with China.

Opt-out rights are enshrined in many national privacy laws and regulations, which provide individuals with a right to opt-out of unwanted marketing. But this is a time-consuming process and often requires know-how and commitment. Global Privacy Control (GPC) is a new mechanism which enables anyone to easily opt out of website-based marketing. Rob Shavell, Founder and CEO of Boston-