Hello and welcome to another episode of GDPR Now, our podcast dedicated to all things related to data privacy and data security with all sorts of technology in between.

Your host today is me, Karen Heaton, owner of Data Protection for Business, still recording from my home office in

southwest London.

In this episode, we're going to talk about some challenging views to privacy and data protection

regulations.

Controversially, we're going to discuss why data privacy, including regulations like GDPR,

can be viewed as counterproductive and why we may be better off without the current notion of data privacy.

So in our challenging journey today, I'm delighted to introduce our contract privacy provocateur, Ben Malizzo. Ben, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Karen. That's possibly the nicest introduction I think I've ever had.

And with the British accent, it actually makes me sound sophisticated and important.

So thank you very much.

Yeah, so you're our agent provocateur today.

I love the way you say that.

So Ben is currently the author of his new book called Exposed,

How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy, Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity.

Ben has over 30 years in information, security and education,

and is currently a professional certification training lead for SGS Cyber Security Services.

They are in a multinational corporation involved in a wide range of product and process

certification and validation.

Prior to that, some of Ben's roles have also included being a professor of English, a computer

teacher for troubled teens, as well as extensive experience working with clients such as FedEx,

the US Special Forces Command, the UN and HSBC.

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