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Episode 1: GDPR One Year On - with James Leaton Gray

GDPR Now!

Karen Heaton/Data Protection 4 Business

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4.811 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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GDPR Now! brought to you by This is DPO. Episode 1 – GDPR One Year On. About this episode: One year on, what’s GDPR looking like inside most companies. Is an ongoing thing, or is privacy a one-off? What’s the most effective form of governance, and what’s the role of DPOs in that mix? Plus lots of related issues. Guest: James Leaton Gray, Director of The Privacy Practice. http://www.privacypractice.co.uk/ Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 7740 818036 Host: Mark Sherwood-Edwards of This Is DPO. www.thisisdpo.co.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 7748 761972 Material referred to: Tim Berners Lee’s company www.inrupt.com https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inrupt-tim-berners-lee The Furman report The Economic Value of Data: Discussion Paper, HM Treasury, August 2018, and Unlocking Digital Competition: Report of the Digital Competition Expert Panel March 2019. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/unlocking-digital-competition-report-of-the-digital-competition-expert-panel Contact details You can contact the show at [email protected]. If you have questions, comments, suggestions for topics, or would like to appear on the show, please contact us on the email above.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the first episode of GDPR Now, a podcast dedicated GDPR and all things privacy.

0:07.5

GDPR now is brought to you by This Is DPO.

0:10.5

Your host this week is Mark Sherwood Edwards.

0:13.1

That's me.

0:14.3

In this studio today, we have James Leighton Gray of the Privacy Practice.

0:19.1

James, welcome.

0:20.2

Thank you.

0:20.7

Would you like to tell us a bit about

0:21.7

yourself? Right, yeah. I've been in privacy for probably about 16 years now. That makes you an old man

0:28.8

or the privacy world. It does. And like most of us, I sort of fell into it. I was originally a

0:34.7

political journalist and then I'd moved across into policymaking and was at the BBC

0:39.8

and was getting them ready for freedom information and took on data protection at the same time,

0:46.6

which seemed to me the more interesting of the two and I still think that's already correct

0:52.1

and have stayed in it ever since.

0:54.4

And then about four years ago set up my own company.

0:57.2

Okay. Well, it's not that many people start of being a BBC producer and end up being

1:02.1

data protection specialists. You're one of the few in the world, I imagine.

1:05.4

I suspect so. Some of my colleagues still can't quite understand it, but I still think

1:09.2

that the privacy is fascinating.

1:11.5

It's all about identity. It's about who we are. It's about our relationship with the state,

1:16.1

with companies, with each other. Really interesting stuff. So privacy is at the core of what makes

1:21.7

us us. Good. Okay. Well, that's a pretty fundamental thing. And in this episode of GDPR now, we, James and I discussed it.

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