The Privacy Partnership Podcast with Robert Bateman
Robert Bateman provides the latest on data protection and privacy, with regular solo news updates and short-form interviews. Brought to you by Privacy Partnership: www.privacypartnership.com
The Privacy Partnership Podcast with Robert Bateman
Latest Episodes
Decoding the AI Act: A first look at the Commission’s "high-risk" draft guidelines
The European Commission just dropped its highly anticipated first set of draft guidelines on high-risk AI classification under the AI Act—all 150 pages of them. Published for stakeholder consultation on May 19th, 2026, this document is the clos...
Get 40% off an ICO fine! The South Staffordshire case and early settlements
How do you knock 40% off a looming data protection fine? In this episode of the Privacy Partnership Podcast, Rob Bateman breaks down the recent £963,900 penalty handed down by the ICO to South Staffordshire Plc and explores the fascinating proc...
RTM v Bonne Terre: Court of Appeal redraws the line on consent
The Court of Appeal has ruled that consent under the UK GDPR and PECR is objective. A data subject's hidden vulnerabilities are not, in themselves, decisive, and even a controller's constructive knowledge of those vulnerabilities is not a stand...
What actually counts as 'scientific research'? Here's the EDPB's six-point answer
On 15 April 2026, the European Data Protection Board adopted Guidelines 1/2026 on the processing of personal data for scientific research purposes. The 66-page document is now out for public consultation.In this episode, Robert Bateman b...
'Clarity in action'?! The EDPB's 2025 annual report and litigation battles
In this episode, Rob looks at the newly published European Data Protection Board (EDPB) annual report for 2025. We are skipping the usual backward-looking statistics to focus entirely on the regulator's pipeline for 2026 and the massive multi-f...