ODPA Data Protection Teabreak

The story behind Warro the Data Bear

Discover the story behind Warro the Data Bear and her friend Bijou the Blue Tit. The book is the Bailiwick of Guernsey’s Office of the Data Protection Authority’s (ODPA) latest project to help engage young people with the issues around data protection. Aimed at children aged 7-10 years old, the book tells of Warro’s adventure into a world filled with data where she learns about what personal data is and how it might created and used. The ODPA are distributing the book to all year 4 students in Bailiwick schools in November 2023 to tie in with the UN’s World Children’s Day. Katherine Levy Spencer speaks to author Kirsty Bougourd about the book and where the ideas came from. More at: https://www.odpa.gg/warro

Data Breaches: 10 Pitfalls & why caring for our data matters

* WARNING: This podcast includes reference to suicide, please contact www.samaritans.org if you are affected by this.* In this episode the Office of the Data Protection Authority's Senior Investigator, Ed Chapman, talks to Kirsty Bougourd about why we should all be so careful with personal data - whether it’s ours or someone else’s. Ed leads the ODPA’s investigations into data breaches and sees first-hand the effect of a breach on the person whose personal data is involved, and also helps uncover how the breach occurred. He talks about how we can all become complacent with personal data and lose sight of its incredible value, and how intrinsically it is linked to who we are. Ed also discusses how easy it can be to unintentionally cause a breach to occur and why following some simple steps can help prevent them from happening. In early 2023 the ODPA published a document, written by Ed, explaining the Top 10 Common Pitfalls seen when handling people's data, and the practical steps that can be taken to mitigate them. As well as talking about the importance of personal data, Ed and Kirsty discuss these pitfalls and explain the reasoning behind some of them in more detail. You can read more about the 10 common pitfalls at: www.odpa.gg/information-hub/guidance/handling-data-breaches/

The Bijou Lecture 2023 with Elizabeth M. Renieris

The Office of the Data Protection Authority is honoured to have Elizabeth Renieris, an expert on data governance and the human rights implications of new and emerging technologies, as our 2023 Bijou guest lecturer. The author of Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse, her passion for data protection was ignited at university when a classmate hacked into internal residential house directories, scraped the student ID photos of female residents from their pages and pitted the undergraduate women against each other on a website called Facemash. Her classmate was Mark Zuckerberg, who went on to control one of the most powerful companies in the world. Introduction by Bailiwick of Guernsey Data Protection Commissioner Emma Martins. More at: https://www.odpa.gg/project-bijou/the-bijou-lecture/the-bijou-lecture-2023/

Matthew Parker - Bijou Award Winner

In this episode, Kirsty Bougourd speaks to Matthew Parker who, for the past 11 years, has dedicated hundreds of hours of his free time to educating the Bailiwick's young people about online safety and data protection. In early 2023 Matthew was awarded one of the Islands Data Governance Forum's inaugural Bijou Awards for his dedication and commitment all given to local schools for free. He discusses his motivation and how the digital landscape has changed over the years.

'Metaverse 2030' - by Louis Rosenberg

This audio is based on a fictional narrative set in the near future and written by one of the founders of augmented reality and an expert in AI, Louis Rosenberg. It was performed by Oliver Bailey-Davies, Sam Garioch and Sarah Hansmann Rouxel from Tin Whistle Productions. It was produced and recorded by Simon Prince at Hot Source studios in Guernsey. Louis Rosenberg is campaigning for 'guardrails' to be put in place before new technologies develop and evolve to protect users. Metaverse 2030 is an example of 'useful fiction', stories which help explain important issues of the time and enable people to grasp otherwise mercurial concepts, such as the metaverse, artificial intelligence and augmented reality. Louis supports the ODPA's Project Bijou, a social initiative to engage people through storytelling, and kindly let us use his narrative which has been brought to life in the form of this spellbinding audio play. It is the perfect cautionary tale to entertain while educating people, and the message is particularly pertinent for young people who are perhaps most at risk from harmful, unregulated online behaviours. You can listen to a Q&A with Louis Rosenberg where he discusses the wider themes covered in Metaverse 2030 at: https://www.odpa.gg/project-bijou/theme-3-the-role-culture-plays-in-data-and-vice-versa/video-real-guardrails-in-immersive-technologies-navigating-the-metaverse-safely/