
Grumpy GDPR
- Episodes
- 51
- Format
- Series – listen from the start
- Latest episode
- Dec 18, 2025
About the podcast
Interesting, fascinating, provoking, insightful - or all of the above - GDPR decisions, rulings and other tidbits discussed by two very opinionated people.
Episodes 51
Under the Bus (w/Max Schrems)
The Grumpy GDPR show is back on the road! 🚌 Today: missed stops, wrong turns and someone definitely ending up under the wheels. Buckle up!🔗 Go to shownotes
Conflicted – with Paul Breitbarth, member 🇯🇪 DPA, former 🇳🇱 DPA
Today, the Grumpy GDPR show hosts a special guest – and fellow podcaster! With years at the Dutch DPA, then real-world experience in the trenches of data protection, also teaching compliance at Maastricht …
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Today, the Grumpy GDPR show hosts a special guest – and fellow podcaster! With years at the Dutch DPA, then real-world experience in the trenches of data protection, also teaching compliance at Maastricht University and a member of the Jersey DPA – who better to dive into the latest dynamite DPO decision with than Paul Breitbarth himself!
Get your (AI) act together
Is 💬 "AI Hell" on your table too? We prescribe Back to Basics and MMA (not the fighting kind) – unless you're a carpenter! 🔗 Go to shownotes(EU AI Act, GDPR, data protection, privacy, AI agents, AI automation)
Grumpy Old Year
Happy Data Protection Day! 🥳 The grumpsters met up to ponder last year and what lies ahead. Spoiler alert: 🧩 Is EDPB’s dense techspeak an impossible puzzle even for Rie, and public consultations just an …
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Happy Data Protection Day! 🥳 The grumpsters met up to ponder last year and what lies ahead. Spoiler alert: 🧩 Is EDPB’s dense techspeak an impossible puzzle even for Rie, and public consultations just an internal checkbox exercise? And will 2025 finally bring some clarity, or are we doomed to rearrange the pieces of the same broken puzzle?
Grumpy Data Protection Regulation (LinkedIn Live)
NB! This is the audio from our very first Grumpy GDPR LinkedIn Live streamed live on 20 December 2024. You can watch the full recording on LinkedIn here. While it shouldn't be necessary to say: take our …
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NB! This is the audio from our very first Grumpy GDPR LinkedIn Live streamed live on 20 December 2024. You can watch the full recording on LinkedIn here. While it shouldn't be necessary to say: take our informal, fun and light-hearted session with a BIG grain of salt! 😊
Grumpy on purpose
What's the meaning of ...purpose? Today, we take you on a GDPR-in-practice journey and yes, down another rabbit hole! This is one to discuss, so connect with us on LinkedIn and chip in!🔗 Go to shownotes
Have you noticed?
🌡️ Today, the grumpy-meter is through the roof! But not due to the GDPR, EDPB, Meta, noyb or CJEU... 🇺🇸 To ask for consent, or not to ask, that is the question! A very practical case today where we talk through …
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🌡️ Today, the grumpy-meter is through the roof! But not due to the GDPR, EDPB, Meta, noyb or CJEU... 🇺🇸 To ask for consent, or not to ask, that is the question! A very practical case today where we talk through Rie changing her free newsletter provider due to hefty annoyances.
AI am tired 😩
Last time was our grumpiest episode so far. This time, the tables have turned, but not the grumpy-meter! 🌡️🔗 Go to shownotes
European Court of Jawstice
We stick our heads out and risk being imprecise or GOSH, maybe even wrong and/or say silly things, but not so that you don't have to - to inspire you to dare do the same! 🔥🔗 Go to shownotes
Lies, damn lies and statistics
Miloš is back! Is he grumpier than ever? Join us today as we dive into the EDPB's infamous CEF DPO report.🔗 Go to shownotes
🇩🇰 Piece of Cake!
A first for the Grumpy GDPR: an episode without one of the grumpsters 😱 But don't despair, we have a guest! Once again we revisit the infamous Chromebook case, "Helsingørgate", of Denmark. And once again the …
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A first for the Grumpy GDPR: an episode without one of the grumpsters 😱 But don't despair, we have a guest! Once again we revisit the infamous Chromebook case, "Helsingørgate", of Denmark. And once again the lovely Allan Frank from the 🇩🇰 DPA joins to discuss what makes the cake inedible and how we can make something tasty instead.
How I met your grumpster
We finally reveal how the two of us grumpily met and get more grumpy at one another today than usual! 😱🔗 Go to shownotes
10 Things I Hate About You
Final episode of the year! We cannot believe how fast 2023 went by. A huge thanks to you, our wonderful listener! 🎧 🔗 Go to shownotes
Back on the Ban Wagon
Join us for one more voyage (at least for a bit) into the ongoing Meta saga!🔗 Go to shownotes
Unreasonable expectations
One small ban for 🇳🇴, one giant leap for mankind? The Meta 🇮🇪 saga continues!🔗 Go to shownotes
The Evils of the World
And whom may that be... 🤨 Let us know how many you identified in this episode!🔗 Go to shownotes
The Irish Job – with Cian O'Brien 🇮🇪 DPC
We got company 😎 PS: This was recorded before Border Control!
Nothing personal
A controversial ruling on the concept of personal data - or simply a ruling on a procedural error? 🔗 Go to shownotes
72:00:00
⏰ Last time we brought our terminal equipment - today everyone better bring their stopwatch!🔗 Go to shownotes
Directing privacy – Line Coll, 🇳🇴 DPA Datatilsynet
💬 "I don't really do grumpy" (except when reading through Art. 57 and dealing with revenge complaints, perhaps!) Tune in for today's brilliant discussion with the Head of the Norwegian data protection authority …
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💬 "I don't really do grumpy" (except when reading through Art. 57 and dealing with revenge complaints, perhaps!) Tune in for today's brilliant discussion with the Head of the Norwegian data protection authority on the GDPR: the good, the bad and the ugly, compliance fatigue and a shared admiration for Art. 5 ❤️
Basket Case(s)
🥚 for everyone in this episode where Miloš and Rie are unusually grumpy towards a basket of Basket Cases🔗 Go to shownotes
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