Episode 16 - Masterclass

This week, Mr Whitaker and I chat through Tash's holiday data sexism, over-reliance on AI, and the PPT injunction.

This week Simon is joined by guest co-host Rowenna Fielding as we chat through basically everything under the sun. This episode is about discussing humanity's flaws, and fighting the good fight to leave the world in a better* place than we found it. *terms and conditions apply.

Joined by Laura O'Neill as we discuss the Asos Breach, care home CCTV, the Fonagy Review and human bias in news reporting.

This week Tash and Simon are joined by the Henry Cavil of data protection, Ralph O'Brien* talking about his fabulous Serious Privacy Boardgame. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seriousprivacy/serious-privacy-the-data-game *(Bry-on, not Brie-on)

This week Tash and Simon explore the how algorithms dictate and distort what news we see, recording devices in public, personal safety tech, and the role lived experience.

Tash and Simon are joined by data protection legend Darren Hampton. We talk about how difficult it can be to delineate controllers and processors in complex contractual arrangements, the trickiness of consistent knowledge management, and confirm that our issues mainly stem from the group known as 'people'.

In this episode we talk about delivering training, buying presents ahead of time, Microsoft's changes to Teams archiving, and asking, 'how do we make sure employees have integrity and honesty?'.(you can't).

Simon and Tash are joined by Education data protection extraordinaire, Claire Archibald.We talk through (more) on SARs, delve into the world of schools, preparing for complaints, handling complaints, and some questions from Tim Turner's DPO Daily Challenge.

We "survived" the summer only to talk about the ever-growing deep dark pit of subject access requests. Simon laughs, and Tash describes the sound of a fingerprint reader if they had sounds.

This week Tash and Simon are joined by the fabulous Tim Turner.We cauterise our catharses; the EU AI Act and other hype trains departing from the station of woe, and AI use by counterparties creating more work.We also go down a PECR rabbit role, Simon gets something wrong (surprising no-one), including the new charity opt-out, and direct marketing for the public sector.