Emma Ritchie always wanted to be an intellectual property lawyer when she was finishing her law degree at UCD. It was only when she went to King’s College London to do a masters on the topic that she came across a new legal topic called the Regulation of Emerging Technologies. It was 2009, and still a long time before the European Union started to think about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a groundbreaking new data privacy and security law. But Ritchie was hooked. “The module I studied was all about how people were sharing their information online, and how…