Emily Prieur is an IPilogue Writer and a 3L JD Candidate at Queen’s University Faculty of Law. This article was originally written as part of the IPilogue’s annual Year in…
Tag: GDPR
EU Penalizes Amazon $887 million for GDPR Infringement
Tiffany Wang is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In July, the European Union delivered an unprecedented fine…
Social Media Privacy: Legalities of Personal Data Collection
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…
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…