Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast. I'm Corbyn Barthold, Internet Policy Council at Tech

Freedom. Data privacy is our topic today. What laws protect your data? What new bills are out

there? Where is the legal landscape headed? This is a big topic. There is a lot to cover, but I think we have a fighting chance because I am joined today by two of the best known experts in the field. Lydia de la Torre is of counsel at Squire Patent Boggs for the next few minutes,

where she works on privacy compliance, data protection, and cybersecurity law. She is also a professor

at the Santa Clara University School of Law, where she has served as co-director of the school's

data privacy certificate program. She has just been appointed to the

inaugural board of the California Privacy Protection Agency. Congratulations on that. And a hat tip to

the president pro tem of the California State Senate, Senator Tony Atkins, for appointing her.

So I was jokingly saying to her a moment ago, you know, we're joined by privacy royalty on this show today. Alan Friel is a partner at

Squire. He is deputy chair of the firm's data privacy and cybersecurity practice in the U.S.

If Lydia is royalty, Alan still qualifies as nobility.

He is also an adjunct professor at Loyola, Marymount Laws, School of Law, and he teaches

in a program at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.

He has decades of experience with digital media, intellectual property, and privacy and consumer protection law.

Thank you both so much for being here.

I think it's worth starting with basics.

I see a lot of discussions about privacy law that sort of dive in with a lot of assumptions already

having been made. And I think before we dive into these laws and how they work, we should talk

just a bit about what do we even mean when we say privacy law? So if you hear securities law,

that means law that regulates securities. Privacy as a concept is a bit more abstract.

So what is the stuff that privacy law regulates? You know, when you're online, who's getting what

from you? When do they get it? What do they want to do with it? And how does privacy law deal with that?

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