The Privacy Advisor Podcast

On May 1, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held its third hearing on how to craft a potential federal privacy bill. Witnesses included repesentatives from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Future of Privacy Forum, Common Sense Media and the Irish Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, host Angelique Carson welcomes back frequent guest Joseph Jerome, of the Center for Democracy and Technology, to discuss the highlights and lowlights of this most recent hearing and whether we're finally pushing proverbial the ball forward on how to do things right in the U.S.

In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, New Zealand Privacy Commissioner John Edwards discusses the privacy landscape in New Zealand and ongoing updates to the country's privacy law of 1993. Th regulator is unique in that he does not have fining powers, but he says that's working just fine. Edwards also discusses what he says are necessary reforms to the way social media platforms respond to modern-day terrorist attacks. Specifically, he's frustrated with Facebook's response to the attacks on two of the country's mosques, after the terrorist live-streamed the act and the company took nearly 30 minutes to remove it.