This week, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will make a long-awaited appearance on Capitol Hill. With Facebook under new and increased scrutiny in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) following the Cambridge Analytica data breach, Facebook’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is set to be grilled by representatives of both the Senate and the […]
The re-posting of this comment is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective. In December 2012, the Commission put forward its proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). According to the Commission’s own words, “The Regulation is an essential step to strengthen citizens’ fundamental […]
George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In an article on Intellectual Property Watch, Javier Fernandez, a lawyer for CropLife Latin America, argues that better protection of regulatory data is necessary in order to foster innovation in the agricultural industry. In consideration of projections of an exploding global population, a decreasing […]