Unlocking data privacy: Insights from the data diva | Guest Debbie Reynolds

Today on Cyber Work, I’m very excited to welcome Debbie Reynolds, the Data Diva herself, to discuss data privacy. Reynolds developed a love of learning about data privacy since working in library science, and she took it through to legal technologies. She now runs her own data privacy consultancy and hosts the long-running podcast “The Data Diva Talks Privacy Podcast.” We talk about data privacy in all its complex, nerdy, and sometimes frustrating permutations, how GDPR helped bring Reynolds to even greater attention, how AI has added even more layers of complexity and some great advice for listeners ready to dip their toes into the waters of a data privacy practitioner career.

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0:00 - Data privacy
3:29 - First, getting into computers
7:46 - Inspired by GDPR
9:00 - Pivoting to a new cybersecurity career
12:01 - Learning different privacy regulation structures
15:17 - Process of building data systems 
17:41 - Worst current data privacy issue
20:57 - The best in AI and data privacy
22:15 - The Data Diva Podcast
25:24 - The role of data privacy officer
30:36 - Cybersecurity consulting
36:21 - Positives and negatives of data security careers
39:34 - Reynolds' typical day
41:11 - How to get hired in data privacy
48:38 - The best piece of cybersecurity career advice
50:25 - Learn more about the Data Diva
51:14 - Outro

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