We regulate how companies handle data. But we don't regulate what digital products actually do. Lisa LeVasseur has spent years building the case, and the tools, for treating digital products with the same safety rigor we apply to cars, food, and medicine. Her research shows it historically takes about 50 years from a new product category reaching mass adoption to product safety regulation. We're 43 years in.
Italy fined two banking apps €12.5 million. Not for a breach. For how a software component was designed to work on users' phones. The companies had compliance arguments. The regulator had the technical evidence. In this conversation, Charlotte Tranberg Bagger and Vibeke Specht explore what happens when compliance documentation and technical reality don't match — and why legal expertise alone can no longer close the gap.
You know GDPR. But when your company launches an app in China, the rules change in ways that catch even experienced privacy professionals off guard. No legitimate interests. Government-controlled cross-border transfers. A regulator that has pulled 500 apps from stores. Join us for a practical conversation about what European companies actually need to know when their mobile apps meet Chinese data protection law.
Trackers. SDKs. Fingerprinting. Network requests. You've seen the terms in audit reports and DPAs. You may have nodded along when developers explained them. Damnjan Jovanovic is a developer who has spent years making this technology genuinely understandable to privacy professionals — no code, no jargon, just the real thing.
The corporations lobbying against state privacy laws in the US are the same lobbying in Brussels. Priestley has documented how they operate, from the inside, across hundreds of meetings. Whether you're a DPO, an enforcer, or a lawmaker, understanding this playbook changes how you read every "simplification" proposal that lands on your desk.
For ten years, Arielle Garcia worked inside one of the world's largest advertising agencies. She rose to Chief Privacy & Responsibility Officer, built the practice from scratch — and then resigned publicly, concluding the system couldn't be reformed from within. Today, as COO of Check My Ads, she investigates the machinery that most privacy professionals never see: where the ad dollars actually go, who profits from the opacity, and what it costs the rest of us.
Pols has bridged the worlds of technology, law, and ethics for over 20 years, and believes we're at a turning point where collaboration, not compliance checklists, will define how organizations protect people's data.
Noa is a legal-tech entrepreneur and the author of "Hoggo's Online Adventure: A Hedgehog’s Journey In Cybertown", a short book that teaches children how to use the internet and apps safely.
