Legitimately Interesting
Topical commentary on current data protection & privacy issues and developments.
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Episodes
29 episodes
Ep 29: Recent developments on “scientific research”
Jamie and Hannah discuss the recent EDPB guidance on scientific research, changes proposed under the EU digital ...
Ep 28: Complaints
Organisations across the board are reporting a massive uptick in GDPR-related complaints, many of which seem AI-generated. Jamie Drucker &
Ep 27: Consent
In this episode of Legitimately Interesting, Jamie Drucker and Hannah Crowther discuss some of the biggest pitfa...
Ep 26: Special category data
In this episode of Legitimately Interesting, Jamie Drucker and Hannah Crowther discuss the broad scope of the sp...
Ep 25: Christmas highlights 2025
In this Christmas episode of Legitimately Interesting, Jamie and Marc pick out a few highlights from the year in d...
Ep 24: EU digital simplification
In this episode of Legitimately Interesting, Jamie Drucker and Mark Watts review the EU's proposed reforms to the GDP...
Ep 23: Privacy notices
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) held its plenary meeting on 16 October, announcing its next coordinated enforcement action: transparency compliance. In this episode, Jamie D...
Ep 22: Engaging with regulators
In this episode of Legitimately Interesting Jamie Drucker and Mark Watts discuss how to engage with data protection a...
Ep 21: Data Breaches
In this episode Jamie Drucker and Mark Watts discuss data breaches and give some practical tips on how to handle brea...
Ep 20: Agentic AI
In this episode of Legitimately Interesting, Jamie Drucker and Hannah Crowther tackle the topic of Agentic ...
Ep 19: Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
Jamie Drucker and Hannah Crowther discuss the adoption of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and the evolving regul...
Ep 18: The Fairness Principle
Hannah Crowther and Mac Macmillan discuss the often over-looked GDPR requirement that personal data must be proc...
Ep 17: The Online Safety Act – Where are we now?
Faye Harrison and Jamie Drucker discuss the current status of the OSA, practical steps service providers should be...
Ep 16: EDPB's opinion on AI models
In this episode, Hannah Crowther and Jamie Drucker deep dive on the EDPB’s recent opinion on AI models, looking ...
Ep 15: Christmas highlights
As it’s Christmas, Hannah Crowther and Jamie Drucker have each chosen 3 highlights/interesting titbits/gripes fr...
Ep 14: New UK data protection law
In this episode, Hannah and Jamie break down what you need to know about the UK’s new data protection law – the ...
Ep 13: Anonymisation
In this episode, Hannah Crowther and Mac Macmillan discuss anonymisation. We cover the latest case law and guida...
Ep 12: Liability for Processors
With the ICO announcing a very unusual intent to fine a data processor, in this episode of Legitimately Interesting, Hannah Crowther and
Ep 11: Scientific Research
In this episode of Legitimately Interesting, Jamie Drucker, Marc Dautlich and
Ep 10: Joint controllership
In this episode of Legitimately Interesting, Hannah Crowther and Jamie Drucker discuss (and occasionally gripe!)...
Ep 9: Data retention and deletion
In this episode of Legitimately Interesting, Jamie Drucker and Mac Macmillan cover the thorny topic of data retent...
Ep 8: CJEU judgment on the TCF
In this episode of Legitimately Interesting, Hannah Crowther and Jamie Drucker discuss the CJEU's judgment in th...
Ep 7: Automated Decision-Making
In this episode of Legitimately Interesting, Hannah Crowther and Jamie Drucker discuss the fascinating topic of ...