Best UX Minimal Podcasts (2024)

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S3E10: 'How a Privacy Engineering Center of Excellence Shifts Privacy Left' with Aaron Weller (HP) 40:13

9d ago40:13

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In this episode, I sat down with Aaron Weller, the Leader of HP's Privacy Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE), focused on providing technical solutions for privacy engineering across HP's global operations. Throughout our conversation, we discuss: what motivated HP's leadership to stand up a CoE for Privacy Engineering; Aaron's approach to staff…

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S3E9: 'Building a Culture of Privacy & Achieving Compliance without Sacrificing Innovation' with Amaka Ibeji (Cruise) 43:24

17d ago43:24

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Today, I’m joined by Amaka Ibeji, Privacy Engineer at Cruise where she designs and implements robust privacy programs and controls. In this episode, we discuss Amaka's passion for creating a culture of privacy and compliance within organizations and engineering teams. Amaka also hosts the PALS Parlor Podcast, where she speaks to business leaders an…

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S3E8: 'Recent FTC Enforcement: What Privacy Engineers Need to Know' with Heidi Saas (H.T. Saas) 1:15:33

24d ago1:15:33

1:15:33

In this week's episode, I am joined by Heidi Saas, a privacy lawyer with a reputation for advocating for products and services built with privacy by design and against the abuse of personal data. In our conversation, she dives into recent FTC enforcement actions, analyzing five FTC actions and some enforcement sweeps by Colorado & Connecticut. Heid…

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S3E7: 'Personal CRM: Embracing Digital Minimalism & Privacy Empowerment' with Chris Zeunstrom (Yorba) 43:11

1M ago43:11

43:11

This week's episode, I chat with Chris Zeunstrom, the Founder and CEO of Ruca and Yorba. Ruca is a global design cooperative and founder support network, while Yorba is a reverse CRM that aims to reduce your digital footprint and keep your personal information safe. Through his businesses, Chris focuses on solving common problems and creating innov…

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S3E6: 'Keys to Good Privacy Implementation: Exploring Anonymization, Consent, & DSARs' with Jake Ottenwaelder (Integrative Privacy) 54:09

1M ago54:09

54:09

In this week's episode, I sat down with Jake Ottenwaelder, Principal Privacy Engineer at Integrative Privacy LLC. Throughout our conversation, we discuss Jake’s holistic approach to privacy implementation that considers business, engineering, and personal objectives, as well as the role of anonymization, consent management, and DSAR processes for g…

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S3E5: 'Nonconformist Innovation in Modern Digital Identity' with Steve Tout (Integrated Solutions Group) 54:55

2M ago54:55

54:55

In this week's episode, I am joined by Steve Tout, Practice Lead at Integrated Solutions Group (ISG) and Host of The Nonconformist Innovation Podcast to discuss the intersection of privacy and identity. Steve has 18+ years of experience in global Identity & Access Management (IAM) and is currently completing his MBA from Santa Clara University. Thr…

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RavenDb, passion, and books with Dejan Milicic 42:10

2M ago42:10

42:10

In this episode we talk to Dejan Milicic about the new version of RavenDb that just dropped. We also talk about how importants passion is as a developer. Links from the episode: https://ravendb.net/ Dejan's book https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-RavenDB-Database-Modern-Persistence/dp/1484289188/ Developer Hegemony https://www.amazon.com/Developer-…

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S3E4: 'Supporting Developer Accountability for Privacy' with Jake Ward (Data Protocol) 44:40

2M ago44:40

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This week, I chat with Jake Ward, the Co-Founder and CEO of Data Protocol, to discuss how the Data Protocol platform supports developers' accountability for privacy by giving developers the relevant information in the way that they want it. Throughout the episode, we cover the Privacy Engineering course offerings and certification program; how to i…

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S3E3: 'Shifting Left from Practicing Attorney to Privacy Engineer’ with Jay Averitt (Microsoft) 51:51

3M ago51:51

51:51

My guest this week is Jay Averitt, Senior Privacy Product Manager and Privacy Engineer at Microsoft, where he transitioned his career from Technology Attorney to Privacy Counsel, and most recently to Privacy Engineer. In this episode, we hear from Jay about: his professional path from a degree in Management Information Systems to Privacy Engineer; …

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S3E2: 'My Top 20 Privacy Engineering Resources for 2024' with Debra Farber (Shifting Privacy Left) 54:13

3M ago54:13

54:13

In Honor of Data Privacy Week 2024, we're publishing a special episode. Instead of interviewing a guest, Debra shares her 'Top 20 Privacy Engineering Resources' and why. Check out her favorite free privacy engineering courses, books, podcasts, creative learning platforms, privacy threat modeling frameworks, conferences, government resources, and mo…

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S3E1: "Privacy-preserving Machine Learning and NLP" with Patricia Thaine (Private AI) 36:53

4M ago36:53

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My guest this week is Patricia Thaine, Co-founder and CEO of Private AI, where she leads a team of experts in developing cutting-edge solutions using AI to identify, reduce, and remove Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in 52 languages across text, audio, images, and documents. In this episode, we hear from Patricia about: her transition fro…

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S2E39: 'Contextual Responsive Intelligence & Data Minimization for AI Training & Testing' with Kevin Killens (AHvos) 43:20

4M ago43:20

43:20

My guest this week is Kevin Killens, CEO of AHvos, a technology service that provides AI solutions for data-heavy businesses using a proprietary technology called Contextually Responsive Intelligence (CRI), which can act upon a business's private data and produce results without storing that data. In this episode, we delve into this technology and …

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S2E38: "PrivacyGPT: Bringing an AI Privacy Startup to Market" with Nabanita De (Privacy License) 41:29

4M ago41:29

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My guest this week is Nabanita De, Software Engineer, Serial Entrepreneur, and Founder & CEO at Privacy License where she's on a mission to transform the AI landscape. In this episode, we discuss Nabanita's transition from Engineering Manager at Remitly to startup founder; what she's learned from her experience at Antler's accelerator program, her …

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S2E37: "Embedding Privacy Engineering into Real Estate" with Yusra Ahmad and Luke Beckley (The RED Foundation) 1:04:40

5M ago1:04:40

1:04:40

My guests this week are Yusra Ahmad, CEO of Acuity Data, and Luke Beckley, Data Protection Officer and Privacy Governance Manager at Correla, who work with The RED (Real Estate Data) Foundation, a sector-wide alliance that enables the real estate sector to benefit from an increased use of data, while voiding some of the risks that this presents, an…

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S2E36: "Privacy Engineering Contracting: State of the Market & 2024 Predictions" with Jared Coseglia (TRU Staffing) 57:47

5M ago57:47

57:47

This week, I welcome Jared Coseglia, co-founder and CEO at TRU Staffing Partners, a contract staffing & executive placement search firm that represents talent across 3 core industry verticals: data privacy, eDiscovery, & cybersecurity. We discuss the current and future state of the contracting market for privacy engineering rols and the market driv…

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S2E35: "Embed Ethics into Your SDLC: From Reactive Firefighting to 'Responsible Firekeeping'" with Mathew Mytka & Alja Isaković (Tethix) 44:51

5M ago44:51

44:51

This week’s guests are Mathew Mytka and Alja Isakovoić, Co-Founders of Tethix, a company that builds products that embed ethics into the fabric of your organization. We discuss Matt and Alja’s core mission to bring ethical tech to the world, and Tethix’s services that work with your Agile development processes. You’ll learn about Tethix’s solution …

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S2E34: "Embedding Privacy by Design & Threat Modeling for AI" with Isabel Barberá (Rhite & PLOT4ai) 50:03

5M ago50:03

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This week’s guest is Isabel Barberá, Co-founder, AI Advisor, and Privacy Engineer at Rhite , a consulting firm specializing in responsible and trustworthy AI and privacy engineering, and creator of The Privacy Library Of Threats 4 Artificial Intelligence Framework and card game. In our conversation, we discuss: Isabel’s work with privacy-by-design,…

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Keynotes, Extensions, and C# Dev kit with Leslie Richardson 51:25

6M ago51:25

51:25

Leslie gives Jimmy and Jessica a behind the scenes look at keynotes. We talk about teleprompters and backups. We dive into the C# Dev Kit and even more extensions with VisualStudio.Extensibility. Leslie is a product manager on the .NET / C# Developer Experience team and the host of the VS Toolbox show on YouTube, Twitch, and LearnTV. She is focused…

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S2E33: "Using Privacy Code Scans to Shift Left into DevOps" with Vaibhav Antil (Privado) 56:06

6M ago56:06

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This week, I sat down with Vaibhav Antil ('Vee'), Co-founder & CEO at Privado, a privacy tech platform that's leverages privacy code scanning & data mapping to bridge the privacy engineering gap. Vee shares his personal journey into privacy, where he started out in Product Management and saw need for privacy automation in DevOps. We discuss obstacl…

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S2E32: "Privacy Red Teams, Protecting People & 23andme's Data Leak" with Rebecca Balebako (Balebako Privacy Engineer) 48:58

6M ago48:58

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This week’s guest is Rebecca Balebako, Founder and Principal Consultant at Balebako Privacy Engineer, where she enables data-driven organizations to build the privacy features that their customers love. In our conversation, we discuss all things privacy red teaming, including: how to disambiguate adversarial privacy tests from other software develo…

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S2E31: "Leveraging a Privacy Ontology to Scale Privacy Processes" with Steve Hickman (Epistimis) 51:35

6M ago51:35

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This week’s guest is Steve Hickman, the founder of Epistimis, a privacy-first process design tooling startup that evaluate rules and enables the fixing of privacy issues before they ever take effect. In our conversation, we discuss: why the biggest impediment to protecting and respecting privacy within organizations is the lack of a common language…

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S2E30: "LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, & GenAI Architectural Considerations" with Shashank Tiwari (Uno) 1:00:19

7M ago1:00:19

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This week's guest is Shashank Tiwari, a seasoned engineer and product leader who started with algorithmic systems of Wall Street before becoming Co-founder & CEO of Uno.ai, a pathbreaking autonomous security company. He started with algorithmic systems on Wall Street and then transitioned to building Silicon Valley startups, including previous stin…

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S2E29 - "Synthetic Data in AI: Challenges, Techniques & Use Cases" with Andrew Clark and Sid Mangalik (Monitaur) 54:32

7M ago54:32

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This week I welcome Dr. Andrew Clark, Co-founder & CTO of Monitaur, a trusted domain expert on the topic of machine learning, auditing and assurance; and Sid Mangalik, Research Scientist at Monitaur and PhD student at Stony Brook University. I discovered Andrew and Sid's new podcast show, The AI Fundamentalists Podcast. I very much enjoyed their li…

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S2E28: "BigTech Privacy; Responsible AI; and Bias Bounties at DEF CON" with Jutta Williams (Reddit) 54:57

7M ago54:57

54:57

This week, I welcome Jutta Williams, Head of Privacy & Assurance at Reddit, Co-founder of Humane Intelligence and BiasBounty.ai, Privacy & Responsible AI Evangelist, and Startup Board Advisor. With a long history of accomplishments in privacy engineering, Jutta has a unique perspective on the growing field. In our conversation, we discuss her trans…

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S2E27: "Automated Privacy Decisions: Usability vs. Lawfulness" with Simone Fischer-Hübner & Victor Morel 44:18

7M ago44:18

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Today, I welcome Victor Morel, PhD and Simone Fischer-Hübner, PhD to discuss their recent paper, "Automating Privacy Decisions – where to draw the line?" and their proposed classification scheme. We dive into the complexity of automating privacy decisions and emphasize the importance of maintaining both compliance and usability (e.g., via user cont…

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S2E26: "Building Ethical Machines" with Reid Blackman, PhD (Virtue Consultants) 51:41

8M ago51:41

51:41

This week, I welcome philosopher, author, & AI ethics expert, Reid Blackman, Ph.D., to discuss Ethical AI. Reid authored the book, "Ethical Machines," and is the CEO & Founder of Virtue Consultants, a digital ethical risk consultancy. His extensive background in philosophy & ethics, coupled with his engagement with orgs like AWS, U.S. Bank, the FBI…

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S2E25: "Anonymization & Deletion at Scale" with Engin Bozdag (Uber) & Stefano Bennati (HERE) 50:14

8M ago50:14

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This week, we're chatting with Engin Bozdag, Senior Staff Privacy Architect at Uber, and Stefano Bennati, Privacy Engineer at HERE Technologies. Today, we explore their recent IWPE'23 talk, "Can Location Data Truly be Anonymized: a risk-based approach to location data anonymization" and discuss the technical & business challenges to obtain anonymiz…

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S2E24: "Cloud-Native Privacy Engineering via DevPrivOps" with Elias Grünewald (TU Berlin) 1:04:19

8M ago1:04:19

1:04:19

This week’s guest is Elias Grünewald, Privacy Engineering Research Associate at Technical University, Berlin, where he focuses on cloud-native privacy engineering, transparency, accountability, distributed systems, & privacy regulation. In this conversation, we discuss the challenge of designing privacy into modern cloud architectures; how shifting…

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S2E23: "Navigating the Privacy Engineering Job Market" with George Ratcliffe (Stott & May) 46:12

8M ago46:12

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This week, my guest is George Ratcliffe, Head of the Privacy GRC & Cryptography Executive Search Practice at recruitment firm, Stott & May. In this conversation, we discuss the current market climate & hiring trends for technical privacy roles; the need for higher technical capabilities across the industry; pay ranges within different technical pri…

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S2E22: Why You Need an 'Outside-In' Approach to Privacy Risk Monitoring with Sanjay Saini (Privaini) 37:19

9M ago37:19

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Get ready for an eye-opening conversation with Sanjay Saini, the founder and CEO of Privaini, a groundbreaking privacy tech company. Sanjay's journey is not only impressive due to his role in creating high-performance teams that have built entirely new product categories, but also for the invaluable lessons he learned from his grandfather about the…

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S2E21: Containing Big Tech, Federal Privacy Law, & Investing in Privacy Tech with Tom Kemp (Kemp Au Ventures) 55:33

9M ago55:33

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This week’s guest is Tom Kemp: author; entrepreneur; former Co-Founder & CEO of Centrify (now called Delinia), a leading cybersecurity cloud provider; and a Silicon Valley-based Seed Investor and Policy Advisor. Tom led campaign marketing efforts in 2020 to pass California Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act, (CPRA), and is currently …

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Playing the YouTube game with Nick Chapsas 56:49

9M ago56:49

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In this episode, Jimmy and Jessica talk to Nick Chapsas. Nick is a Content Creator focusing on C# & .NET and an Author and Founder of the educational platform Dometrain. His YouTube channel has reached over 200k subscribers quickly, so we naturally wanted to hear about his secret. https://www.11ty.dev/ https://teachable.com/ https://dometrain.com/ …

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S2E20: Location Privacy, Data Brokers & Privacy Datasets with Jeff Jockisch 43:09

10M ago43:09

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This week’s guest is Jeff Jockisch, Partner at Avantis Privacy and co-host of the weekly LinkedIn Live event, Your Bytes = Your Rights, a town hall-style discussion around ownership, digital rights, and privacy. Jeff is currently a data privacy researcher at PrivacyPlan, where he focuses specifically on privacy data sets. In this conversation, we d…

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S2E19: Privacy Threat Modeling - Mitigating Privacy Threats in Software with Kim Wuyts (KU Leuven) 45:05

10M ago45:05

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This week's guest is Kim Wuyts, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the DistriNet Research Group at the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven. Kim is one of the leading minds behind the development and extension of LINDDUN, a privacy threat modeling framework that mitigates privacy threats in software systems. In this conversation, we discuss t…

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S2E18: Making Digital Contact Cards Private, Shareable & Updatable with Brad Dominy (Neucards) 48:01

11M ago48:01

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I am delighted to welcome my next guest, Brad Dominy. Brad is a MacOS and iOS developer and Founder & Inventor of Neucards, a privacy-preserving app that enables secure shareable and updatable digital contacts. In this conversation, we delve into why personally managing our digital contacts has been so difficult and Brad's novel approach to securel…

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S2E17 - Noise in the Machine: How to Assess, Design & Deploy 'Differential Privacy' with Damien Desfontaines (Tumult Labs) 46:07

12M ago46:07

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In this week’s episode, I speak with Damien Desfontaines, also known by the pseudonym “Ted”, who is the Staff Scientist at Tumult Labs, a startup leading the way on differential privacy. In Damien’s career, he has led an Anonymization Consulting Team at Google and specializes in making it easy to safely anonymize data. Damien earned his PhD and wro…

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S2E16: Words with Impact; Communication Tips for Privacy Technologists with Melanie Ensign (Discernible) 59:41

12M ago59:41

59:41

I'm delighted to welcome guest, Melanie Ensign, Founder and CEO of Discernible, where she helps organizations adopt effective communication strategies to improve risk-related outcomes. She's managed security & privacy communications for some of the world's most notable brands, including Facebook, Uber & AT&T. Melanie counsels executives and technic…

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S2E15: 'Watching the Watchers: Transparency & Control Research' with Umar Iqbal, PhD (University of Washington) 39:31

1y ago39:31

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This week's guest is Umar Iqbal, PhD, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, working in the Security and Privacy Research Lab. Umar focuses his research on two themes: 1) bringing transparency into data collection and usage practices, and 2) enabling individuals to have …

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S2E14: Addressing Privacy with Static Analysis Techniques Like ‘Taint-Tracking’ & ‘Data Flow Analysis’ with Suchakra Sharma (Privado.ai) 34:42

1y ago34:42

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This week, we welcome Suchakra Sharma, Chief Scientist at Privado.ai, where he builds code analysis tools for data privacy & security. Previously, he earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal, where he worked on eBPF Technology and hardware-assisted tracing techniques for OS Analysis. In this conversation, we delve into Suc…

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S2E13: Diving Deep into Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with Kurt R. Rohloff (Duality Technologies) 48:43

1y ago48:43

48:43

I am delighted to welcome this week’s guest, Kurt Rohloff. Kurt is the CTO and Co-Founder of Duality Technologies, a privacy tech company that enables organizations to leverage data across their ecosystem and generate joint insights for better business while preserving privacy. Kurt was also Co-Founder of the OpenFHE Homomorphic Encryption Software…

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S2E12: 'Building Powerful ML Models with Privacy & Ethics' with Katharine Jarmul (ThoughtWorks) 55:28

1y ago55:28

55:28

This week, I'm joined by Katharine Jarmul, Principal Data Scientist at Thoughtworks & author of the the forthcoming book, "Practical Data Privacy: Enhancing Privacy and Security in Data." Katharine began asking questions similar to those of today's ethical machine learning community as a university student working on her undergrad thesis during the…

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S2E11: Lessons Learned as a Privacy Engineering Manager with Menotti Minutillo (ex-Twitter & Uber) 53:23

1y ago53:23

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This week, we gain insights into the profession of privacy engineering with guest Menotti Minutillo, a Sr. Privacy Engineering Manager with 15+ years of experience leading critical programs and product delivery at companies like Uber, Thrive Global & Twitter. He started his career in 2007 on Wall Street as a DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer; and no…

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S2E10: Leveraging Synthetic Data and Privacy Guarantees with Lipika Ramaswamy (Gretel.ai) 45:38

1y ago45:38

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This week, we welcome Lipika Ramaswamy, Senior Applied Scientist at Gretel AI, a privacy tech company that makes it simple to generate anonymized and safe synthetic data via APIs. Previously, Lipika worked as a Data Scientist at LeapYear Technologies, and was the Machine Learning Researcher at Harvard University's Privacy Tools Project. Lipika’s in…

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S2E9: Personalized Noise, Decaying Photos, & Digital Forgetting with Apu Kapadia (Indiana University Bloomington) 46:31

1y ago46:31

46:31

In this episode, I'm delighted to welcome Apu Kapadia, Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University. His research is focused on the privacy implications of ubiquitous cameras and online photo sharing. More recently, he has examined the cybersecurity and privacy challenges posed by AI-b…

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S2E8: Leveraging Federated Learning for Input Privacy with Victor Platt 41:20

1y ago41:20

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Victor Platt is a Senior AI Security and Privacy Strategist who previously served as Head of Security and Privacy for privacy tech company, Integrate.ai. Victor was formerly a founding member of the Risk AI Team with Omnia AI, Deloitt’s artificial intelligence practice in Canada. He joins today to discuss privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) that …

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S2E7: Bring Your Own Data, ChatGPT & Personal AIs with Markus Lampinen (Prifina) 59:00

1y ago59:00

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In this conversation with Markus Lampinen, Co-founder and CEO at Prifina, a personal data platform, we discuss meaty topics like: Prifina’s approach to building privacy-respected apps for consumer wearable sensors; LLMs (Large Language Models) like Chat GPT; and why we should consider training our own personal AIs. Markus shares his entrepreneurial…

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S2E6: 'Privacy Left Trust' with Gary LaFever (Anonos) 58:33

1y ago58:33

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Today, I welcome Gary LaFever, co-CEO & GC at Anonos; WEF Global Innovator; and a solutions-oriented futurist with a computer science and legal background. Gary has over 35 years of technical, legal and policy experience that enables him to approach issues from multiple perspectives. I last saw Gary when we shared the stage at a RegTech conference …

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S2E5 - What's New in Privacy-by-Design with R. Jason Cronk (IOPD) 58:32

1y ago58:32

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R. Jason Cronk is the Founder of the Institute of Operational Privacy Design (IOPD) and CEO of Enterprivacy Consulting Group, as well as the author of Strategic Privacy by Design. I recently caught up with Jason at the annual Privacy Law Salon event and had a conversation about the socio-technical challenges of privacy, different privacy-by-design …

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S2E4: Training the Next Wave of Privacy Engineers with Nishant Bhajaria (Uber) 42:37

1y ago42:37

42:37

Nishant Bhajaria is the Director of Privacy Engineering, Architecture, & Analytics at Uber and Author of "Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers.” He’s also an Advisor to Data Protocol, Privado & Piiano. In our conversation, we discuss privacy engineering trends, educational materials that Nishant has developed, and his advice to privacy technologis…

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S2E3: Fixing Consent & Transparency on the Web with Mark Lizar (Digital Transparency Lab) 50:32

1y ago50:32

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To kick off Data Privacy Week 2023, I’m joined by Mark Lizar, CEO of the Digital Transparency Lab and Founder of 0PN: Open Privacy Network. Mark is also the Vice Chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity for Next-Generation Connectivity Systems' Human Control & Flow Sub-Committee and Editor & Lead Author of the ANCR Notice Record Specification and Framework …

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