Practical Privacy with Orla Dormer

Practical Privacy is a podcast for privacy professionals who want to understand how privacy and AI governance work in the real world. Hosted by Orla Dormer, the series brings together experienced practitioners to discuss common operational challenges , from scaling GDPR programs and answering data questions internally, to navigating AI governance and legacy tooling constraints. Each episode focuses on practical lessons, honest reflections, and what teams wish they had known earlier. This podcast is designed as a reference for privacy leaders looking to improve how privacy actually operates inside organisations.

Practical Privacy with Orla Dormer is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #18

  Automating processor RoPAs & proving privacy's business value| Adrien Hug-Korda

  Aug 6, 202614 minS1

  Keeping a processor Record of Processing Activities up to date is one of the least glamorous—but most critical—operational challenges in privacy. In this episode, Orla Dormer is joined by Adrien Hug-Korda, European Data Protection Board Expert and former Privacy Director at Contentsquare , to discuss how privacy teams can automate processor RoPAs, manage large-scale processing operations, and build compliance processes that continue working as organisations grow. Adrien shares practical lessons from the digital marketing industry, explains how to avoid creating compliance processes that rely on constant manual effort, discusses handling DSRs in cookie-based environments, and offers advice on showing the business value of privacy programmes to leadership. If you're responsible for privacy operations, governance, or compliance at scale, this episode is full of practical ideas you can apply immediately. Subscribe for more real-world conversations on privacy operations, AI governance, and scaling compliance without the noise. TrustWorks reduces operational drag through context-aware operations that align compliance with how the business actually works. Learn more at https://www.trustworks.io/

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  Episode #17

  Operationalising AI governance in a high-growth fintech environment | Taylor Galusha

  Aug 6, 20267 minS1

  What does practical AI governance actually look like day to day in a high-growth FinTech environment? In this episode of Practical Privacy, Orla Dormer speaks with Taylor Galusha, Lead Privacy and AI Counsel at Chime , about operationalising AI governance through scalable AI vendor assessments. Taylor explains why manual reviews are difficult to sustain, how robust playbooks can create consistency, and how AI can support the first draft of vendor assessment reviews when given clear guidance, examples, and logic trees. This episode explores how privacy and AI governance teams can move faster, escalate risks more clearly, and build stronger documentation — without removing human judgement from the final decision. Subscribe for more real-world conversations on privacy operations, AI governance, and scaling compliance without the noise. TrustWorks reduces operational drag through context-aware operations that align compliance with how the business actually works. Learn more at https://www.trustworks.io/

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  Episode #16

  Why privacy programmes fail to scale | Cristina Costache

  Jul 2, 20268 minS1

  Most organisations have privacy policies. Far fewer have privacy capabilities that actually scale. In this episode, Cristina Costache, DPO & CISO at Noventiq , explores one of the most persistent challenges facing privacy teams: transforming compliance from a documentation exercise into an operational capability embedded within the organisation.

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  Episode #15

  Scaling ROPA, PIAs & privacy documentation across 1,000+ applications | Aaron Mendelsohn

  Jun 23, 202611 minS1

  How do you complete privacy documentation across hundreds of teams and more than 1,000 applications without overwhelming the business? In this episode of Practical Privacy, Orla Dormer is joined by Aaron Mendelsohn, Director and Senior Privacy Officer at The LEGO Group , to discuss how his team rebuilt and scaled privacy documentation across a large global organisation. Aaron explains how they combined privacy technology, risk-based prioritisation, and extensive team enablement to successfully document over 1,000 applications within a 12-month period. He also shares why privacy professionals need to move beyond policy writing and spend more time understanding how product and engineering teams actually work. This episode covers: • Scaling ROPAs, PIAs and privacy documentation programmes • Using risk-based approaches to focus effort where it matters most • The role of change management in privacy success • Building stronger relationships with internal stakeholders • Creating sustainable compliance processes that teams will actually use • Future opportunities to combine privacy, AI and broader compliance assessments A practical conversation for privacy leaders, DPOs and compliance professionals looking to improve documentation processes without creating unnecessary friction for the business.

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  Episode #14

  Enhancing privacy, security & compliance without slowing business growth | Fred Descloux

  Jun 11, 202613 minS1

  In this episode of Practical Privacy, Orla Dormer is joined by Fred Descloux, privacy, security, and governance leader, to discuss how organisations can align engineering, security, privacy, and compliance<b> in fast-moving environments where execution speed is critical</b>. Drawing on his experience in highly regulated industries, Fred shares why traditional compliance approaches often create friction, bottlenecks, and what he describes as "compliance theatre"—generating documentation without meaningfully reducing risk.<br /><br />Together they explore how to:<br />• Embed privacy and security directly into engineering workflows<br />• Move away from compliance as a gatekeeping function<br />• Focus on outcomes rather than per...

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