Serious Privacy
by Dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth & Ralph O'Brien
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Estimated from 8 chart positions in 8 markets.
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- 🇪🇸ES · News Commentary#2001K to 10K
- 🇳🇬NG · News Commentary#3610K to 30K
- 🇸🇦SA · News Commentary#5010K to 30K
- 🇵🇹PT · News Commentary#102500 to 3K
- 🇻🇳VN · News Commentary#102500 to 3K
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12K to 43K🎙 ~2x weekly·284 episodes·Last published today - Monthly Reach
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24K to 85K🇳🇬35%🇸🇦35%🇪🇸12%+5 more - Active Followers
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7.0K to 26K
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Recent episodes
Week in Privacy - Information is Beautiful
Sep 2, 2026
38m 09s
12 years in ICO Complaints (with Dom Smith) AND Meta settlement
Aug 26, 2026
49m 56s
Eclipsing Privacy - Smart Glasses and a week in privacy
Aug 19, 2026
36m 42s
Privacy Down Under (with Commissioner Carly Kind)
Aug 12, 2026
40m 55s
one HOT week in Privacy
Aug 5, 2026
36m 53s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/2/26 |  Week in Privacy - Information is Beautiful | Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal cover a week in privacy, enforcement actions, breaches, settlements (dud you see the one with Meta?), and more. Check out this website for visualizations of data breaches https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/ If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @serious... | 38m 09s | ||||||
| 8/26/26 | 12 years in ICO Complaints (with Dom Smith) AND Meta settlement | Send us Fan Mail The real problem with complaints isn’t that people are complaining. It’s that unhappy people don’t usually show up unless something already went wrong. So when the ICO says it has to triage harder, that’s the tension. Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal connect with Dom Smith of the UK's Information Commissioner's Office to discuss his role in addressing complaints and changes he has seen over the last 12 years. We'll ... | 49m 56s | ||||||
| 8/19/26 | Eclipsing Privacy - Smart Glasses and a week in privacy | Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, review the Meta Smart Glasses and privacy issues just before a solar eclipse occurs. We've decided we like the Duck, Duck, Go version. They include a brief week in privacy. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email po... | 36m 42s | ||||||
| 8/12/26 | Privacy Down Under (with Commissioner Carly Kind) | Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien speak with the Privacy Commissioner of Australia, Carly Kind, about the legislative developments in Australia, indigenous privacy, enforcement action on data breaches, and of course the U 16 social media ban. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app a... | 40m 55s | ||||||
| 8/5/26 | one HOT week in Privacy | Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy in the midst of hot temperatures in Europe and multiple fires arund the world. This week, we bring you some enforcement activities, regulator inquiries, old laws for new purposes, and guidance from various regulators on child safety. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.... | 36m 53s | ||||||
| 7/28/26 | A multifacted week in privacy | Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy. We have some jucy news from Europe, New Jersey, and the United Kingdom. Tune in! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email [email protected]. Rate and Review us! Su... | 34m 47s | ||||||
| 7/22/26 | A Big 300! Regulating Canada and the World (with Philippe Dufresne) | Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, celebrate 300 episodes. And for this milestone, we invited Philippe Dufresne - Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Privacy Assembly. It is a fascinating discussion and one not to miss! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriouspri... | 41m 26s | ||||||
| 7/17/26 | privacyanonymisation+4 | — | European Data Protection BoardMeta | — | privacyanonymisation+5 | — | 33m 32s | ||
| 7/15/26 | privacyUS Supreme Court+3 | — | — | — | privacyUS Supreme Court+3 | — | 36m 09s | ||
| 7/1/26 | digital colonizationprivacy+3 | Samantha Simms | Serious Privacy | — | digital colonizationprivacy issues+3 | — | 41m 21s | ||
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| 7/1/26 | Digital Colonization with Samantha Simms | Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, ( Paul Breitbarth was out) meet with the phenomenal Samantha Simms. We had the best time going deep on some really substantive issues, even starting with Samantha's answer on the unexpected question. Join us as we discuss key issues and the digital colonization. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.... | 42m 16s | ||||||
| 6/25/26 | social mediaage restrictions+3 | Fey O'Brien | Serious Privacy | UK | social mediaage restrictions+3 | — | 40m 41s | ||
| 6/22/26 | AIGames+4 | — | IAPP | Dublin | AI conferenceGames Expo+3 | — | 28m 06s | ||
| 6/18/26 | surveillanceprivacy+3 | — | Serious Privacy | — | surveillanceprivacy+3 | — | 31m 38s | ||
| 6/10/26 | privacy programsdata protection+3 | Ryan Boos | TrustArc | — | privacydata protection+5 | — | 36m 25s | ||
| 6/3/26 | privacyAI+3 | — | — | — | privacyAI+4 | — | 36m 27s | ||
| 5/27/26 | privacydata protection+3 | — | Governance or Emerging Tech and Science conference | Arizona | privacydata protection+5 | — | 34m 19s | ||
| 5/20/26 | AI governancetechnology+3 | Shoshana Rosenberg | Logical AI GovernanceSafePorter+2 | — | AI governanceShoshana Rosenberg+3 | — | 36m 52s | ||
| 5/15/26 | privacydata processing+3 | — | — | Spain | privacydata processing+3 | — | 33m 43s | ||
| 5/6/26 | data governanceDSARs+3 | Daragh O'Brien | Castlebridge | — | data governanceDSARs+3 | — | 35m 11s | ||
| 4/30/26 | GDPRdata protection+4 | — | — | — | GDPRdata protection+5 | — | 41m 55s | ||
| 4/23/26 | privacyinformation governance+3 | Dr Alexandra Delaney-Bhattacharya | Isle of Man | — | privacyinformation commissioner+3 | — | 40m 02s | ||
| 4/16/26 | IAPP Summitprivacy+3 | Prof. Woodrow Hatzog | — | Washington DC | IAPP Summitprivacy+5 | — | 34m 35s | ||
| 4/8/26 | data protectionhumour+3 | Simon Pillinger | Pillinger Privacy | People's Republic of North Oxfordshire | data protectionhumour+3 | — | 38m 55s | ||
| 4/1/26 | social media addictionregulatory capture+4 | — | IAPP | OklahomaLima Peru | social mediaaddiction+5 | — | 30m 56s | ||
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Chart history for Serious Privacy
Peaked at #36 in NG, currently #36 in NG.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG | — | #36 | #36 | — |
| SA | — | #50 | #50 | — |
| PT | — | #102 | #102 | — |
| VN | — | #102 | #102 | — |
| Denmark | — | #124 | #124 | — |
| Ireland | — | #167 | #167 | — |
| CL | — | #186 | #186 | — |
| Spain | — | #200 | #200 | — |
Chart Positions
8 placements across 8 markets.
Chart Positions
8 placements across 8 markets.