Talus, Assuming Chair Of The EDPB, Aims To Cut New Tracks

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Anu Talus, who succeeded Andrea Jelinek to become the second chair of the European Data Protection Board in May, hopes to build on Jelinek’s work as she focuses on making GDPR enforcement more coherent, efficient and harmonized across the bloc’s member states. In an extended conversation with MLex on the sidelines of the Global Privacy Assembly meetings this year, Talus discussed issues ranging from the EDPB’s highly unusual step of making permanent and EU-wide a temporary Norwegian ban on Meta Platforms targeting users with behavioral-based ads without their consent issued under the GDPR’s urgency procedure, to how she entered the data protection field years ago.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another podcast from MLEX. I'm Mike Swift and I'm the Global Chief
0:16.2	Correspondent for Privacy and Data Security at Mlex, and I'm speaking to you today from my base in San
0:21.9	Francisco, California. Today our conversation is with Anu Talu, who is chair of the European
0:28.6	Data Protection Board. Talu, who also heads the Data Protection Authority of Finland, became
0:34.9	the chair of the EDPB in May of this year, succeeding Andrea Yelanik.
0:40.3	And as you'll hear today, TALU who really hopes to build on the foundation of GDPR enforcement
0:46.3	established by Yelanek, with the goal of making enforcement more timely and better harmonized
0:52.3	among the member states.
0:54.7	We chatted about a range of subjects, including how Talu ignored the advice to go into data
1:00.2	protection because she was told it would only be a niche area of the law.
1:05.8	But we also touched on an array of more specific topics for the EDPB. I spoke to Anu Talu at the margins of the Global
1:13.8	Privacy Assembly last month in Bermuda. And here's what you told me. Thank you for the
1:20.1	invitation. I wanted to ask you, first of all, your impression of the meetings. Why is this
1:27.0	valuable to attend and what are you hoping to achieve
1:30.2	and what do you see as the main themes coming out of these meetings this week? I think it's great to
1:35.7	see how data protection has become such a global phenomenon and the protection of personal data has become so important.
1:47.0	It is great to see how my colleagues from all over the world are working on to build on their own data protection authorities.
1:59.0	For instance, on the opening session we had the data protection authorities. For instance, on the opening session, we had the
2:03.6	data protection authorities from Caribbean countries. And it was really interesting to hear
2:10.6	how, what type of challenges they are meeting and to see how they are working on to build their authorities.
2:22.3	I think this shows how important the protection of personal data has become in the past years.
2:31.3	Also just another example, I met a colleague from California. They are
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