Last week, the European Commission released its draft Delegated Act on data access under the DSA’s Article 40 which aims to improve platform transparency and enable scientific analysis, with detailed procedures to ensure safe and efficient data sharing with researchers.
Until 26 November, the Commission is accepting feedback from the community on the Delegated Act, including specific conditions under which data sharing should take place, the purposes for which the data may be used, and relevant procedures. This is a pivotal moment for independent research and platform transparency, and an important time to make your voice and perspective heard.
As the Delegated Act is both complex and important, CITR co-founder and board member Rebekah Tromble will offer three 90-minute information sessions on the Delegated Act.
Each session will focus on the same key themes (i.e., there’s no need to attend more than one session):
- What’s actually in the Delegated Act? What isn’t included and why?
- What type of feedback is the Commission looking for? What type of feedback probably wouldn’t be very helpful (e.g., because the Delegated Act can’t address certain things)?
- What insights or points might members of the research community be in a good position to help emphasize?
These information sessions are open to researchers from non-profit research institutions (e.g., universities, civil society organizations) anywhere in the world who might consider requesting data to study the systemic risks to Europe and Europeans posed by Very Large Online Platforms and/or Very Large Online Search Engines.
We welcome you to join us at one of these sessions. Please register your interest here and we will send a calendar invite and zoom link. The form will ask you to choose one of the following slots below.
- Session 1 (90 mins): November 11th, 9am EST/3pm CET/7:30pm IST/
- Session 2 (90 mins): November 13th, 9am EST/3pm CET/7:30pm IST/
- Session 3 (90 mins): November 13th, 6pm EST/3pm PST/8am JST/10am AEDT