Social media platforms are connecting friends, family, and colleagues in new ways. With over 3.6 billion people using social media in 2020, these platforms are all-encompassing. Each of these billions…
Tag: GDPR
Guidelines for the Implementation of GDPR-Compliant Cookie Notices
This comment investigates how legal requirements for consent are implicated in the deployment of internet browser cookies, with a focus on the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…
The Precarious Position of Streaming Video Games – Potential Repercussions from the European Copyright Directive
Esports and video game streaming have become a popular pastime and a big business with gaming platforms such as Twitch and Mixer[i] attracting millions of viewers apiece and tournaments for…
Who owns my privacy and why I don’t want people to know where I drive
To me, “big data” has become synonymous with Big Brother, the central political figure behind data collection and monitoring in George Orwell’s “1984.” Big Data plays a similar role in…
Big Data, Privacy and the GDPR
When I attended the Institute for the Future of Law Practice boot camp in May 2018 in Chicago, Professor Matthew Kugler from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law gave a lecture on cybersecurity, explaining…
EU-US Privacy Shield Adopted: Now What?
The re-posting of this article is part of a cross-posting agreement with CyberLex. On July 12, 2016, the European Commission formally issued its adequacy decision endorsing the EU-US Privacy Shield,…