Hungary’s fast tracked implementation of Article 5 CDSM directive in response to the pandemic external link
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Operationalizing Research Access in Platform Governance: What to learn from other industries? external link
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A new study published by AlgorithmWatch, in cooperation with the European Policy Centre and the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law, shows that the GDPR needn’t stand in the way of meaningful research access to platform data; looks to health and environmental sectors for best practices in privacy-respecting data sharing frameworks.
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Annotatie bij EHRM 24 januari 2019 (Catt / Verenigd Koninkrijk) external link
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Ten onrechte opneming van een vredesactivist in een databank tegen binnenlands terrorisme. Databank dienst een legitiem doel, maar voortdurend bewaren disproportioneel.
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User Perspectives on the News Personalisation Process: Agency, Trust and Utility as Building Blocks external link
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With the increasing use of algorithms in news distribution, commentators warn about its possible impacts on the changing relationship between the news media and news readers. To understand the meaning of news personalisation strategies to users, we investigated how they currently experience news personalisation, perceive their role in the personalisation process, and envision increasing the utility of personalised news by giving users more agency and fostering trust. We conducted four focus groups with online news readers in Germany. For the analysis, grounded theory techniques were suitable due to their applicability in reconstructing user perspectives through their own experiences. We found that (1) users fail to distinguish between news personalisation and commercial targeting, which may negatively bias their perception; (2) there is a contradiction in how users perceive themselves as active participants in the process, but lack the means to exercise agency; (3) user concerns extend beyond privacy to what information they receive and their right to personal autonomy—a solution requires offering users the ability to dynamically adjust their “news interest profiles”; (4) while news personalisation strategies afford new opportunities for introducing reciprocity in the media-audience relationship, negotiating competing logics of journalistic, personal and algorithmic curation remains a challenge.
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agency, focus groups, frontpage, grounded theory, news personalisation, personal curation, Privacy, trust, utility
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Drie mogelijke boetes van mededingings-, consumenten- en persoonsgegevensautoriteiten voor hetzelfde datagebruik external link
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Door de toename van datagebruik door ondernemingen is er sprake van convergentie tussen het mededingings-, consumenten- en gegevensbeschermingsrecht. Er kan dan parallelle handhaving plaatsvinden ten aanzien van één en dezelfde handeling door dezelfde onderneming door drie verschillende autoriteiten. Dat noemen wij caleidoscopische handhaving. Dat heeft volgens ons verschillende keerzijden, waaronder het risico op overhandhaving door drie afzonderlijke procedures van drie afzonderlijke autoriteiten en mogelijk drie boetes. Wij onderzoeken in dit artikel waarom het ne-bis-in-idem-beginsel niet van toepassing is en het beginsel van eendaadse samenloop evenmin (net als in de recente Marine Harvest gun-jumping zaak), waardoor proportionaliteit overblijft.
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Public Registers Caught between Open Government and Data Protection – Personal Data, Principles of Proportionality and the Public Interest download
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For governments across the globe, public registers are an increasingly popular means to help achieve a range of objectives. These include safeguarding the independence of judiciary, upholding food hygiene and safety standards, fostering proper use of subsidies, and protecting the public from unqualified professionals. Most public registers are subject to data protection laws because they contain some form of personal data. In the Netherlands, the number of online public register has risen dramatically. On the basis of exploratory research on Dutch public registers, we hypothesised that governments easily assume that public registers serve their designated goals, but rarely adequately assess their effectiveness. A comprehensive analysis of registers confirms that hypothesis is correct. This is problematic from the perspective of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the human right to privacy as enshrined in, for example, Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). Both require that the means used to serve a (legitimate) purpose are proportionate to the (potential) privacy harms. Based on the experience in the Netherlands, in this chapter we query to what extent and by which means policy and lawmakers actually test effectiveness of public registers and analyse the privacy implications from the perspective of proportionality. The adoption of open government policies combined with technological possibilities result in a strong growth of online public registers, and possibilities to link data from multiple sources multiply. The potential privacy impacts on individuals need to be better understood and safeguarded already at the design stages of public registers.
Data protection, open government, Personal data, Privacy, public registers
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Annotatie bij EHRM 12 november 2019 (Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft e.a. Zwitserland) external link
Webinar on Public and Regulatory Framework of Online Intermediaries external link
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Recording of the reCreating Europe Online Workshop on Public and Private Regulatory Framework of Online Intermediaries organized on 5 May 2020.
Slides and report of the event also available at the links below.
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The legal framework on the dissemination of disinformation through Internet services and the regulation of political advertising external link
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The study, commissioned by the Dutch government, focusses on the legal framework governing the dissemination of disinformation, in particular through Internet services. The study provides an extensive overview of relevant European and Dutch legal norms relating to the spread of online disinformation, and recommendations are given on how to improve this framework. Additionally, the study includes an analysis of the relevant legal framework in 6 different countries (U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Sweden and Canada).
The report makes clear how the freedom of expression runs as a central theme through the legal framework, both forming the outer limit for possible regulation and a legal basis to create new regulation (e.g. protecting pluralism). The legal framework governing disinformation online is shown to be very broad, encompassing different levels of regulation, shifting depending on the context and already regulating many different types of disinformation. Further, oversight seems to be fragmented with many different supervisory authorities involved but limited cooperation. Based on this analysis, the report offers several recommendations, such as on the use of disinformation not as a legal term but a policy term, on negotiating the tensions on the different policy levels, on the regulation of internet intermediaries including transparency obligations and on increased cooperation between the relevant supervisory authorities.
Previously, the interim report focussing on political advertising was published in late 2019. Both these studies have been carried out in the context of the research initiative on the Digital Transition of Decision-Making at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam, focussing on questions related to AI and public values, data governance and online platforms.
desinformatie, frontpage, internetdiensten, Mediarecht, politieke advertenties, Regulering, Vrijheid van meningsuiting