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Transatlantic Dialogue Workshop, Institute for Information Law (IViR), Amsterdam Law School Part 1: Overarching Questions

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GDPR has become a gold standard but how much do we know about whether it’s enforced or whether it makes any difference in people’s actual level of privacy? US pushes to provide alternative standards—crossborder privacy regulation as an alternative. DSA allows more leeway, again by focusing on process.

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May 2022 Public Commission Meeting – Meet Commissioner Bedoya, Plus Blasts from the Past, Endorsements and an FTC Legend

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Also on the agenda was a policy statement proclaiming that ed tech is a priority area for agency Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) enforcement. Social media companies are warned to look closely at their platform disclosures and whether they are sufficient. The FTC will hold a workshop on this on Oct.

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Transatlantic Dialogue Workshop, Institute for Information Law (IViR), Amsterdam Law School Part 3: Algorithms, Liability and Transparency

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Chair: Martin Senftleben Impulse Statement: Sebastian Felix Schwemer Recommendation systems; transparency is the approach to recommender systems, which intersects with privacy/data protection. Media pluralism in DSA can be broadened to say there’s value in pluralism generally: DSA doesn’t tell you how to do things.

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1H 2021 Quick Links, Part 3 (Content Moderation, Censorship, Privacy, & More)

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NY Times : What Happened When Trump Was Banned on Social Media. * NY Times : Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump. * “ False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives.” Kate Klonick , Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court.

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Call for Applications: Research Positions at Centre for Communication Governance (CCG) at NLU, Delhi [Apply by June 20]

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It seeks to support the development of the right to freedom of speech, right to dignity and equality, and the right to privacy in the digital age, through rigorous academic research, policy intervention, and capacity building. Conceptualising and implementing events, workshops, roundtables, etc.

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Transatlantic Dialogue Workshop, Institute for Information Law (IViR), Amsterdam Law School Part 2: Data Access

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Impulse Statement: Sean Flynn: Data protection can be seen as protecting right to privacy but can interfere with right to research. Duty to protect: duty to regulate third parties—protecting both privacy rights and researchers in data held by third parties. Need balancing/narrow tailoring. Also 4A issues.

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