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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 explains what went wrong with the Apple AirTag. Apple is usually regarded as the company at the privacy frie...

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 commercial objectives of data acquisition and retention, and the legal objective of data minimisation and data pro...

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 Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, is more energetic on privacy issues. Stronger sanctions are likely but the FTC is c...

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 Information: Cannabis Transactions, the world’s first guidance on this subject. This was updated in a revised versi...

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 UK and the EU. The Commissioner does not see privacy and innovation as a zero sum game and is confident th...

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.