Travis LeBlanc is a leading US Civil Rights lawyer, former Chief of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Enforcement Bureau under President Obama and current member of the US government’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board member (PCLOB). 

In this podcast, he talks to Bailiwick of Guernsey Data Protection Commissioner Brent Homan about his re-appointment to PCLOB, the greatest challenges to preserving civil liberties and striking the right balance between national security and upholding privacy rights.

This is the second in the ODPA’s podcast series, Data, Democracy and Freedom.  

The series examines:

•	how people’s information can be weaponized to undermine elections and democracy.
•	How to preserve civil liberties and strike the right balance between national security/program delivery and upholding privacy rights.  
•	how technology may be influencing our freedom of thought and expression

Data, Democracy & Freedom with Travis LeBlanc

The Office of the Data Protection Authority (Bailiwick of Guernsey) are the independent regulator of the local data protection law which is equivalent to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We aim to give you accessible, informative, thought-provoking, and hopefully entertaining insights to a broad range of topics relevant to data protection.