Masters of Privacy
Interviews and updates at the intersection of marketing, data, privacy, and technology. With an eye on a human-centric, demand-led future in which transparency, control, and personal agency play a crucial role.
Sergio Maldonado
Show overview
Masters of Privacy has been publishing since 2020, and across the 6 years since has built a catalogue of 174 episodes. That works out to roughly 90 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence, with the show now in its 10th season.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 27 min and 36 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Business show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 32 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 49 episodes published. Published by Sergio Maldonado.
From the publisher
Interviews and updates at the intersection of marketing, data, privacy, and technology. With an eye on a human-centric, demand-led future in which transparency, control, and personal agency play a crucial role. Sergio Maldonado (host) is a triple-qualified lawyer (California, England & Wales, Spain), entrepreneur, investor, guest lecturer at various universities. LL.M in IT & Internet Law, FIP, CIPP/E/US, CIPT. www.mastersofprivacy.com
Latest Episodes
View all 174 episodesAleksandr Tiulkanov: dissecting transparency requirements in the EU AI Act
Dazza Greenwood: from agentic contracts to AI-assisted law firms. Delegation, attribution and judgment
Shannon Yavorsky: legal implications of AI-driven recruitment
Julian Gage: the evolving shape and role of DPIAs
Amy Lawrence: Meta settlement, advertising to minors, age assurance and addictive design.
Rosalia Anna D’Agostino: Deep Fakes, algorithmic fairness and the challenges of younger generations
Carissa Véliz: navigating LLM constraints in the pursuit of AI ethics
Daniel Solove: consent vs. privacy
Newsroom: Summer 2026
Eduardo Ustaran: the status of privacy in 2026, UK-EU divergence on automated decisions
Theodore Christakis: chatbot privacy dreams and the health AI agent rush
Malcolm Bain: copyright protection of AI-generated works and protection of copyrighted works from AI training
John Pavolotsky: California legal updates, Colorado AI reset, data breach clauses revisited
Tim Turner: The DPO Daily Challenge, recent updates to the UK legal framework
Newsroom: Spring 2026
Tom Kemp (CalPrivacy): on the SECURE Data Act, CCPA whistleblowers, DROP, and AB 566
Mark Webber: a law firm’s perspective on AI governance
Iain Henderson: MyTerms as the missing universal opt-in signal (After The Magic repost)
Shoshana Rosenberg: logic and strategy in AI governance
S10 Ep 31Mirena Taskova: the human-AI interaction as a growing dimension of consumer profiling, and its impact on human behavior
Our interactions with generative AI tools start to affect our personal relationships, communication style, and mental health, as well as our own perception of each other’s capabilities. They also leave a new trace of signals that privacy professionals never had to contend with in the past.As we approach the “personal agent” era, understanding where our individual freedoms and agency truly start and end becomes paramount. After a deeper offline conversation with Marina Taskova, we are today dipping our toes into a subject with profound implications for individual rights, freedom, data protection, commerce, advertising, and media. We will follow it up with other conversations on the topic, which falls right into our sweet spot. Mirena is a senior expert in data governance, privacy, cybersecurity & AI as well as a lawyer. She was Chief Privacy Officer at Aura until recently, and has over 18 years of experience driving high-growth initiatives in privacy & data governance, AI, and enterprise technology, having held executive roles, including CPO and Managing Director positions. Mirena is a graduate of Stanford University in Law, Science & Technology and has worked in Europe and the US.References:* Mirena Taskova on LinkedIn* Yngvi Karlson (Kin): the rise of the Personal AI Assistant (Masters of Privacy, August 2025)* Google Assistant puts an end to impolite queries with ‘Pretty Please’ feature (The Next Web, 2018)* Seven Lawsuits Allege OpenAI Encouraged Suicide and Harmful Delusions (WSJ)* A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem (The New Yorker, July 14 2025)* The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Wikipedia)* Kin AI* New California ‘Companion Chatbot’ Law Imposes Disclosure, Safety Protocol and Annual Reporting Requirements (JD Supra, Skadden)* Character.AI to Bar Children Under 18 From Using Its Chatbots (New York Times, October 2025). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mastersofprivacy.com/subscribe