Presentation: The Online News Act
Please find here the link to my presentation slides for some interesting graphics! https://www.canva.com/design/DAF1rpZGSaw/jhm_63KKmKZ5-FhZNRAEEQ/edit?utm_content=DAF1rpZGSaw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton (Presentation by Estelle B.)
The Company Formerly Known as Twitter Under Fire Yet Again!
The EU’s digital enforcer emphasized that the Digital Services Act (DSA) signifies the end of the era where major online platforms could act with an air of being ‘too big to care.’ The probe against X will focus on several key aspects of its operations, including the dissemination of illegal content, efforts to combat disinformation, […]
Are You Playing Fortnite, or is Fortnite Playing You?
Hi everyone, please find my presentation via this link, thank you! https://youtu.be/4TiM1Dc3lkY
CRTC Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2023-329
Hello everyone, I wanted to follow up on my presentation from earlier this term with some thoughts as I ran out of time. Just to recap: my presentation was on the CRTC’s new Online Undertakings Registration Regulations. Towards the end of the presentation, I referenced the CRTC’s “Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2023-329” which is a document […]
Banning Third Party Cookies
Hi everyone, In 2021, Google announced a plan to ban third party cookies on Chrome, its web browser. Third party cookies are cookies which a third party places on your device, even though you’re not using their website. For instance, you could be browsing website A, but website B may place a cookie on your […]
Feds reach a deal with Google re: Bill C-18
Hi everyone! I don’t know if everyone else has noticed, but today (Nov. 29), it was announced that Google has reached a deal with the federal government to continue posting news online. I thought this came at a super relevant time as one of our last presentations touched on this topic (and the course in […]
Are you playing Fortnite? Or is Fortnite playing you?
Are you playing Fortnite, or is Fortnite playing you? This is a reasonable question worth asking in light of the recent court cases involving privacy concerns with the use of digital platforms, and not just Frotnite. Privacy is a legitimate concern when sharing data over the world wide web, and privacy policies don’t seem to […]
AI chips and NVIDIA
Recently I have been interested in the AI boom, especially with all the discussions we have had in class about AI. I have also been curious about NVIDA’s stock boom during the last year. Turns out that the GPU technology that NVIDIA has focussed on for the longest time has given them a competitive edge […]
Responsibility, Liability and Piracy
In the past I’ve used the book chapter: Copyright Liability and Music ‘Piracy’: Capitol Records v Thomas-Rasset from the book Intellectual Property Excesses as a citation in one of my papers on piracy. It’s a United States case that found Thomas based on copyright infringement of 24 songs to be liable for $200.000, $1.92 million, […]
What Do We Do About “X”?
I came across this article (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/x-sues-media-matters-report-ads-appearing-nazi-posts-rcna126095 ) the other day. It made me think about the ways Twitter has changed since Elon Musk’s takeover and what it has meant for the balancing between the interests of freedom of expression and of safeguarding the public from harms that can arise from unregulated content.Some of the key […]
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