ODPA Data Protection Teabreak

Feb 11 2025 43 ep. 23 mins 5

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The Office of the Data Protection Authority (Bailiwick of Guernsey) are the independent regulator of the local data protection law which is equivalent to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We hope to give you accessible, informative, thought-provoking, and hopefully entertaining insights to a broad range of topics relevant to data protection.

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Balancing politics, privacy and public interests

Feb 11 2025 31 mins

Guernsey politician, PR expert, businessman, musician, writer and keen runner Steve Falla is perpetually in motion. As vice-president of the Economic Development Committee (at the time of recording, Feb 2024) he’s better placed than most to understand the financial challenges facing both government and Guernsey residents amid soaring living costs and increased demands on infras

Joining forces to put the Channel Islands on the global privacy map

Jan 23 2025 42 mins

Storytelling is one of the most effective ways of sharing knowledge and can be a powerful tool to inspire change. Project Bijou is the Office of the Data Protection Authority’s social initiative, which aims to harness the power of shared experiences and stories to promote ethical data use and engage people on a cultural level. In this Project Bijou podcast, Guernsey Data Protec

Children in motion: tracking healthy habits safely

Oct 03 2024 34 mins

Alun Williams is the Be Active Education Lead at Guernsey’s Health Improvement Commission, a charity dedicated to empowering, enabling and encouraging healthy living in Guernsey and Alderney. In this Project Bijou guest podcast, Alun discusses working with the ODPA on a fitness tracker aimed at getting Bailiwick children moving and his long, distinguished career serving the Bail

The Bijou Lecture (2024)

Aug 22 2024 36 mins

For this year's Bijou Lecture join Dr Vicki Nash for an exploration of online safety issues for children. In this year’s lecture she shares her insights with the ODPA’s Data Protection Commissioner Brent Homan. They start off by discussing how keeping children safe in the digital era means striking a delicate balance between our parental urge to protect them and the importanc

How to keep children safe in the smartphone era

Mar 12 2024 26 mins

* WARNING: This podcast includes references to rape and sexual assault and the murder of Brianna Ghey. Details of support / advice are available here if you are affected by this: https://www.odpa.gg/help-and-advice/mental-health-support/* As most parents or carers will tell you, screen time is an ongoing battle. How much is too much? What are they looking at? Will they miss out on

The Canadian, the Pug, the Bear and the Bailiwick

Feb 08 2024 30 mins

In the first data protection tea break of 2024 we meet the Bailiwick’s new Data Protection Commissioner Brent Homan. Previously the Deputy Commissioner of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in Canada Brent has led a number of high profile investigations into areas such as facial recognition, location tracking and behavioural advertising to name just a few. He has also been i

The story behind Warro the Data Bear

Nov 16 2023 14 mins

Discover the story behind Warro the Data Bear and her friend Bijou the Blue Tit. The book is the Bailiwick of Guernsey’s Office of the Data Protection Authority’s (ODPA) latest project to help engage young people with the issues around data protection. Aimed at children aged 7-10 years old, the book tells of Warro’s adventure into a world filled with data where she learns ab

Data Breaches: 10 Pitfalls & why caring for our data matters

Jun 26 2023 25 mins

* WARNING: This podcast includes reference to suicide, please contact www.samaritans.org if you are affected by this.* In this episode the Office of the Data Protection Authority's Senior Investigator, Ed Chapman, talks to Kirsty Bougourd about why we should all be so careful with personal data - whether it’s ours or someone else’s. Ed leads the ODPA’s investigations into da

The Bijou Lecture 2023 with Elizabeth M. Renieris

May 25 2023 32 mins

The Office of the Data Protection Authority is honoured to have Elizabeth Renieris, an expert on data governance and the human rights implications of new and emerging technologies, as our 2023 Bijou guest lecturer. The author of Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse, her passion for data protection was ignited at university when a classmate hacked into

Matthew Parker - Bijou Award Winner

May 24 2023 25 mins

In this episode, Kirsty Bougourd speaks to Matthew Parker who, for the past 11 years, has dedicated hundreds of hours of his free time to educating the Bailiwick's young people about online safety and data protection. In early 2023 Matthew was awarded one of the Islands Data Governance Forum's inaugural Bijou Awards for his dedication and commitment all given to local schools for f