Serious Privacy
Hosted by K Royal & Paul Breitbarth & Ralph O'Brien
Three working privacy pros talk through the week in data protection, with regulators as regular guests.
- Level
- Practitioner, assumes you work in or study security
- Status
- Active, last episode
- Who's behind it
- Vendor-run, TrustArc sourceShow page hosted by TrustArc, a privacy software company; feed copyright reads Serious Privacy.
- Last verified
- Transcripts for some episodes
Listed underGRC and privacy
Editorial take
The most consistent weekly privacy show for people who do privacy as a job. Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien alternate between unscripted "week in privacy" roundups and interviews, and the guest list leans on regulators: Australia's Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind and Canada's Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne both appeared in 2026. The transatlantic host mix is the point: you get EU, UK and US readings of the same story in one 35 to 45 minute episode. The roundups are chatty and assume you already know what a DPIA or the GDPR's Article 6 is, so security people without privacy grounding will find some episodes slow. TrustArc hosts the show page; episode notes carry little more than a TrustArc tag.
Last hand-checked 2026-09-30.
Listen if you …
- work in privacy, data protection or GRC and want a weekly read on regulation
- are studying for a privacy certification and need the EU, UK and US views side by side
- want to hear regulators explain their own priorities in plain language
Skip if you …
- you want technical security content, this is law and policy talk
- you prefer tightly edited shows, the roundups are loose and conversational
Start with these 3 episodes
- 01
The Glassholes of Privacy (Surveillance)
· 33 min · Beginner
A short, concrete entry point: smart glasses make surveillance risk easy to picture without any legal background.
- 02
Privacy Down Under (with Commissioner Carly Kind)
· 41 min · Practitioner
The show at its best: a sitting privacy regulator explaining how she decides what to enforce.
- 03
Governance, Guardrails, and Getting AI Right (with Shoshana Rosenberg)
· 38 min · Practitioner
A practical AI governance conversation that maps privacy program habits onto AI oversight.
About the show
Serious Privacy is a weekly privacy and data protection podcast hosted by Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien. Episodes alternate between "A week in privacy" news roundups and interviews with regulators, privacy officers and researchers. The show page sits on TrustArc's site and the podcast describes itself as PICCASO award winning.
The first episode was published in January 2020 and the feed passed its 300th episode in July 2026. Episodes run about 30 to 50 minutes, and about a third of the feed carries a transcript.
Notable guests
- Carly Kind
- Philippe Dufresne
- Daniel Solove
- Tom Kemp
- Shoshana Rosenberg
- Daragh O'Brien
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