Lead. Learn. Change.

Debbie Reynolds - Diving into Data Privacy with the Data Diva

Episode Summary

Facial recognition, rebooting your computer, your online twin, the GDPR, and FIDO – Debbie Reynolds the Data Diva shares common-sense guidance as well as updates about regulations, algorithmic bias, controlling your data, and many more facets of virtual privacy. Apps copying your clipboard, passwordless access to digital vaults, and how events in World War II led to legislation and robust conversation about privacy as a human right are just a few of the issues that Debbie highlights for listeners. A highly informative episode!

Episode Notes

Accomplishments and learning to cook (3:30)

Chicago, Illinois - Gary, Indiana - parents valued education (4:50)

Mother’s reading of a book led to initial interest in data privacy issues (5:30)

Personal interest and “hobby” is now a career (6:00)

The Nazi’s practices gave rise to the undergirding principles of the GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation (7:00)

GPDR – EU’s first law that could impose large monetary fines on corporations (7:30)

Privacy as a fundamental right – EU and the US (7:55)

More details about GPDR’s connection to events of World War II (9:00)

High school or college coursework and connections with current events (10:10)

Drama courses and the significant impact on life and career (11:40)

“A right to be forgotten” (13:10)

The GDPR covers individuals when they are in the EU (13:25)

An individual’s GDPR rights travel with their data (13:50)

What should students learn about data privacy? (14:50)

At what age should students learn about data privacy? (16:10)

Any tips for parents? (16:20)

The need for educators to be aware of data privacy issues (17:55)

Avoid the co-mingling of your personal and professional work online (18:45)

Use multiple browsers, avoid clicking on links, keep software up to date, reboot your computer regularly (19:20)

Passwords, password managers (20:30)

FIDO – accessing information without passwords (22:05)

Differentiating awareness, information, and detail based on client knowledge and need (24:10)

Collect only the data you need (24:45)

A teacher who could demystify for their students (26:10)

Attention commands attention (26:25)

Debbie’s journey to become the Data Diva (27:25)

Speaking in the Big Mac room (28:20)

The law follows the technology (29:45)

Apple’s iOS14 – impact on advertising (30:30)

Apps reading your clipboard, including passwords (31:10)

Debbie’s mentors and colleagues - Dawid Jacobs, Pia Tesdorf, Emma Lindley (33:00)

Fake identities, digital twin, bias in algorithms (33:40)

How educational organizations be prepared for the next digital change (35:40)

Temperature data, archived information, schools and businesses, transparency (36:00)

Facial recognition, bias, false positives, mistaken identity (37:00)

Computers only do what the programmers tell the computer to do, industry standards (38:40)

People, not statistics – the ripple effects of error rates (39:40)

Favorite teacher -high school drama (40:10)

Communicate, convey information, and learn how to move through the world (40:30)

 

Debbie Reynolds Consulting 

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The Right to Privacy, by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy

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Music for Lead. Learn. Change. is Sweet Adrenaline by Delicate Beats

Podcast cover art for Lead. Learn. Change. is a view from Brunnkogel (mountaintop) over the mountains of the Salzkammergut in Austria, courtesy of photographer Simon Berger, published on www.unsplash.com.

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