Debbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva” talks to Bill Pugh, Smart Connections Consulting LLC, Strategy & Technology advisory in digital transformation in IoT, Smart City, Smart Grid, and digital twin technology. We discuss the Internet of Things (IoT), Data Privacy issues, and how digital transformation can help businesses. Pugh stresses the importance of understanding how technology works and how it can be used to benefit businesses. He also talks about his experience with digital transformation and how it has helped him in his work. The conversation discusses the importance of cybersecurity and how it is often misunderstood. We discuss how everyone has a role in cybersecurity, and is a community effort. We also discuss the importance of continued learning in the field. Bill Pugh describes how he got into the Smart City space after working in the wireless and Smart Grid industries. He explains how he saw a gap in the market for city solutions being inundated by device manufacturers. We discuss his straightforward approach to explanations about Cybersecurity and IoT, his approach to solving business problems, his start in engineering, cybersecurity, and IoT, explaining a digital twin in IoT, IoT, and Smart Cities, fusion in Smart Cities, and civil technologies, the disconnect between IoT and IT, the lack of focus on the risk of data retention, privacy and IoT, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Alexandra Ross, Senior Director of Data Protection, Use, and Ethics Counsel at Autodesk. They discuss Ross's career path and roles at Autodesk, the technological, legal, and operational aspects of privacy, how to find privacy advocates within an organization, the importance of proactive brand trust, and Ross's concerns about a potential federal privacy law with private right of action in the US. Ross also discusses the challenges of her multiple roles, the need for proactive privacy approaches, and the importance of gaining experience through research and volunteering. She offers advice for those just starting out in the privacy field and shares her hopes for the future of data privacy.

Debbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva,” talks to David Heinemeier Hansson, Co-owner & Chief Technology Officer of 37signals (Makers of Basecamp + HEY). We discuss the EU's proposed data transfer framework, which is still in draft form. We talk about how the framework will impact businesses and how privacy is a data issue, not a legal issue. David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish entrepreneur who has been working with the internet since the mid-90s. He is the co-owner of an American software company, and he is currently in Denmark. In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed the NSA's tapping into global internet cables and wholesale data collection. Heinemeier Hansson was horrified by this and wondered what the European reaction would be. The EU has traditionally had a stronger stance on online privacy than the US, and Heinemeier Hansson wanted to see if that would continue in light of this new information. In the wake of the European Court of Justice's ruling that the Privacy Shield agreement between America and Europe was invalid, privacy activists have been scrambling to figure out how to reform the agreement.

We discuss his journey into technology and privacy and his strong stance on the challenges that businesses face trying to do transatlantic data transfers, and businesses were left scrambling by changes in privacy regulations between Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield, legal regulations and technology, the responsibility of regulators and businesses, privacy via encryption, small companies, and data risk, reconciling US and European privacy issues in the short term, attempts to provide clarity to business about data transfers, the expense associated with compliance, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

In episode 112, of “The Data Diva” Talks Provacy Podcast, Debbie Reynolds talks to Richy Glassberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Safeguard Privacy. We discuss his background in ad tech and partnership with Wayne Matus to form SafeGuard Privacy, how data is misused is now subject to more, regulation, the need for standards and regulations, third party data use ans the Data Privacy challenges, differences between digital reality of data uses and law, sophisticated new tools and techniques to enhance Data Privacy, businesses need to figure out how to create benefits for their customers through privacy commitments, the twitter pixel privacy issue for brands, the need to make privacy personal for those responsible for it, technology complexity increasing for organizations, requirements for assessments as part of compliance, brand safety in ad tech and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

This is a MUST LISTEN podcast if you want to have a better understanding of AI and how AI systems work on text, language models and images.

On episode 111 of “The Data Diva” Talks Privacy Podcast, Debbie Reynolds talks to Jim Barnebee, CEO, AIM-E (Artificial Intelligence Made Easy). We discuss our joint work on next generation connected systems with IEEE, his background in programming and development including work with IBM on Watson, bad data in and bad data out, AI does what you program it to do, in depth analysis of input data required for successful language models for AI projects, the need for correct analysis of the problems to be solved by AI, why data can affect AI performance and his hope for Data Privacy and AI in the future.

Here are some of the key AI topics discussed:

- What is a language Ontology?

- Using a Data Graph to query Data sources

- Natural Language Processing (NLP)

- Neural Networks

- Chatbots

- Sentiment Analysis

- Ethical / Unethical AI uses

- Personalization engines

- Social aggregators

- AI mathematical models

- Datasets used to train AI systems

- Human problems with data

- Image recognition algorithms

- General Artificial Intelligence

- Expert systems Artificial Intelligence

- Keyword search vs cognitive search

- The singularity (sentient AI)

- Probabilistic decision making (fuzzy logic)

Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Jackie Singh, Former Cyber Threat Expert for the Biden Presidential Campaign. We discuss her background fighting ransomware, in the military and ethical hacking, how she got to the Biden campaign, how the campaign realized they needed her help, the balance between proactive and reactive security, the need for consumers to have control before a problem happens, her current privacy and cybersecurity concerns, safety versus convenience and the assumption that privacy exists, concerns about upcoming quantum computing capabilities, and her hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva,” talks to Brandon Pugh, Senior Fellow & Counsel at R Street Institute. We discuss his background in the New Jersey State Legislature and National Data Privacy, the Military, the FBI, and elected office, why the US can’t simply implement the GDPR and the complicated State and National issues of Data Privacy, the lack of education about this issue, the need for a new agency to address these concerns, the lack of individual human right to privacy, the need for privacy legislation to have bi-partisan support and ADPPA, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good, California has several privacy advantages and is the standard now, and for the foreseeable future, IoT needs direction and his contribution, EnergyStar as a good but simplistic model for IoT, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva” talks to Michelle Beyo, CEO Finavator, Open Banking Initiative Canada (OBIC). We discuss the convergence of finance and technology, how she created her own path to leverage her strengths, Open Banking, APIs and data connectors, GDPR and other regulations and human rights in FinTech, Vaporware and unfulfilled promises, the importance of discussion of client’s current needs, her current concerns in privacy and finance, the importance of diversity to privacy, confusion between blockchain and cryptocurrency, technology can reduce friction, and hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Keith Budden, Managing Director at Ensurety. We discuss his podcast and book, “GDPR Made Simple”, the tendency to overstate the complexity of the GDPR, the generally false threat of disgruntled employees and the true nature of insider threats, the correct mindset and fewer errors, the reactionary view of GDPR in the US, actions are needed as well as policies, frustration when advice is ignored, and the need to emphasize it’s the importance and document it, the human side of data privacy training, common sense, and GDPR, over-emphasis on consent, regulations not connected to current reality, UK is between US and EU in terms of privacy, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Peter Counter, Editor in Chief at FindBiometrics & Mobile ID World; Culture and Technology Writer. We discuss his experience as a trade journalist in technology topics, biometrics and the leading edge, simple BIPA compliance, BIPA simplicity and focus on human rights an the individual, problems with data collection and retention, AI needs to be balanced by human guidance, the Privacy, Identity and the Big Game Session of the Travel and Hospitality Biometrics Summit, trust is required for comfort with biometrics, benefits of consent in biometrics, managing the challenge of identity and authentication, biometrics in the workplace and bossware and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Zacharias Voulgaris, Data Science Consultant, Author, and Mentor in Data Science and Data Analytics. We discuss his podcast “Analytics and Privacy” and his book “The Data Path Less Traveled” (Amazon), his fascination with math and programming from an early age and steady progress towards a PhD, the need for recognition of the effect of one’s work in privacy on individuals, 7-11 Australian biometric privacy case and the dangers of innovation, Big Data and the dangers it brings, increased data quality resulting from improved privacy, his current concerns in privacy and data, UK AI accountability proposals, where do data science and Data Privacy intersect and interact, privacy policies and flexibility, clarity minimizes risk and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Vikas Malhotra, Founder and CEO of WOPLLI Technologies, Co-Chair - Trust over IP Foundation’s AI & Metaverse taskforce, and Chair of IEEE’s Cyber Security for Next Generation Connectivity Systems for an IEEE project called "Cybersecurity for Next Generation Connectivity Systems". We discuss his early career in electronics and system integration, trust and the Internet, human centricity, and our work together with IEEE Cyber Security for Next Generation Connectivity Systems. identity, self-sovereign identity, privacy as an agency, the benefits of privacy to organizations, the cloud has encouraged retention of data, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva” talks to Cameron Kerry, Former General Counsel and Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Obama Administration, Ann R. & Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Center for Technology & Innovation. At Brookings and the MIT Media Lab, Cameron Kerry is applying his experience as a government thought leader on technology and public policy as a speaker, writer, and researcher on current issues in these areas. His work is focusing especially on privacy and information security and the application of privacy principles to fast-changing global business and technology. We discuss our meeting at the Berkeley Forum and the now mainstream nature of privacy, his unique path in public, private and academic spheres, why privacy is so important for him, surveillance no longer requires human presence, recent developments regarding the Cloud Act and data transfer between the US, the EU, and the UK, 2 streams of thought on surveillance and data transfers, the ADPPA (American Data Privacy Protection Act), California privacy vs. the ADPPA, US Chamber of Commerce objections to ADPPA, his privacy concerns about current technologies, human vs. consumer rights and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

This episode is a MUST listen for anyone who wants to know what is happening with Data Privacy in the U.S. on a state-federal and International level.

Debbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva” talks to Tom Chavez, CEO, and Co-Founder of Ketch. We discuss Tom, background in data and the reason behind his interest in the Data Privacy problem for businesses, the reason behind forming Ketch, early expectations of the outcome of Data Privacy regulations, the importance of trust by design, the proliferation of DSAR features, the way that Ketch eliminates many traditionally manual steps in implementing Data Privacy, the proliferation of duplication of data, knowledge of where data is and how to deal with data sprawl, the hidden costs of middleware (connectors and API’s), how legacy data can be managed by Ketch, companies need to ask the right questions, the Ketch privacy study about consumer attitudes and buying intent related to Data Privacy, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Collin Walke, Attorney and State Representative, State of Oklahoma. We discuss Collin’s authorship of the first opt-in Data Privacy bill in the US, his service on numerous working groups and committees as a state representative, his path to Data Privacy, a revelation about data brokers and challenges of state by state laws, the states taking the lead on Data Privacy, the lack of privacy at our foundation, the legislative process for how bills get passed in US states, the difficulty involved in presenting legislation and the example of California, the desire of each state to do privacy differently and corporate, political and other influences, the success of the NY Shield Act and BIPA in Illinois, slow progress of US compared to EU on privacy regulations, privacy needs to be a long term goal, the need for a separate agency to oversee privacy, lack of a cohesive national approach to privacy and the digital divide, the problem with the 3rd party doctrine and privacy, consent without real choice and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva” talks to Roy Smith, CEO, PrivacyCheq. We discuss his atypical journey into privacy by coding for the original IBM PC, involvement in digital music production and recording as one of the founders of digital audio company Turtle Beach, his family’s background in patents, COPPA, CCPA, and children’s privacy between ages 13 and 16, the impact of states are creating privacy laws in the absence of US Federal legislation, lack of standardization in consumer-based privacy laws, the problem of complexity and fragmentation in privacy, global privacy control and the return of do not track, trouble ahead for companies that don’t see the need for privacy, the death of cookies, browser retention fingerprinting the business advantage of privacy, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Leila R. Golchehreh, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Relyance AI. We discuss her background and what Relyance AI does in privacy and data governance, the difficulties of understanding the needs of large organizations, the proactive and the reactive parts of compliance, changes in products that create privacy havoc, and the impact of the lack of Data Privacy as a human right on people’s health and other rights after the Roe v. Wade and Dobbs decisions, the idea of “data as the new gold” has led to risk due to their overcollection and retention of data, the Amazon acquisition of One Medical and data retention and minimization of legacy data, and her hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Bogdan Grigorescu, VP, Head of Quality Assurance Engineering & AI Systems, Scaling Automation at Afiniti. We discuss his interest in data, AI, automation and his career trajectory, the human impact of automation, the effects of automation on Data Privacy and security, the need for trust when data is gathered, and those without access can slip through the digital divide, his post on “Automating Harm”, the need for human control and judgment in AI systems, the Google researcher who claimed a chatbot had become sentient, the importance of acknowledging psychological considerations in automated systems, and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Prashant Mahajan, Founder & CTO, of Privado. We the company’s growth and commitment to help organizations prevent privacy challenges at the code level, the problems Privado solves for organizations, how to get companies to be proactive about privacy, the conflict between data uses and compliance, addressing speed challenges in operations, majority of data privacy issues missed due to manual processes, how privacy changes affect AdTech and his company’s ability to help, the Ad industry now and the need for change course, how Privado makes the developer’s life easier, what he sees as future issues, harm is irreversible, and thus one should try to prevent it, his client's statements of benefits to them, companies benefit from Data Privacy automation and transparency, relying on memory brings risk to organizations and his hope for Data Privacy in the future.

Debbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva,” talks to Katy Pusch, Lead Director of Product & Integration, Cox2M. We discuss her beginning in analytics and project management, the importance of evaluating risk, the scope of her work in IoT, the great prevalence of IoT devices, what surprises her about new industries and products in data science, lack of adequate thought about more advanced tools, overcollection of data from consumers, incremental consent, problems of technological isolation, a class action BIPA suit in Illinois, the need for more transparency about the value of data, the regulatory focus on third-party data sharing, wearables and data collection, data brokers and HIPAA loopholes, respect for privacy benefits businesses and individuals, decision fatigue and the need for simplification, trust, data quality, and her hope for Data Privacy in the future