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New article: Limitations to TDM and Consumer Empowerment. Making the Case for a Right to Machine Legibility

Author: Rossana Ducato and Alain Strowel Download : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3278901 Citation: R. Ducato, A. Strowel, Limitations to Text and Data Mining and Consumer Empowerment: Making the Case for a Right to “Machine Legibility”, CRIDES Working Paper Series 1/2018, 31 October 2018. Abstract The paper focuses on the current legal barriers to text and data mining (TDM) […]

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Behavioural study on transparency in online platforms

The EU Commission has just published the results of the study on transparency in online platforms. The research has confirmed with empirical evidences that transparency is a precious value in today’s online transactions:    “70% said that the information about criteria for presenting search results was important in their decision and made them more confident and […]

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House of Terms: Fixing the Information Paradigm with Legal Design

Author: Rossana Ducato Download: http://www.rosels.eu/wp-content/uploads/Ducato_poster-1.pdf Citation: Ducato, Rossana (2018), House of Terms: Fixing the Information Paradigm with Legal Design. Poster presentation at BILETA Conference 2018 “Digital Futures: places and people, technology and data”, University of Aberdeen, 10-11 April 2018. Abstract How many times have we checked that box without reading the Terms of the Service (ToS)? […]

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Customer Ratings as a Vector for Discrimination in Employment Relations?

Authors: Rossana Ducato, Miriam Kullmann, Marco Rocca Download: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3141156 Citation: Ducato R., Kullmann M., Rocca M. (2018), Customer Ratings as a Vector for Discrimination in Employment Relations? Pathways and Pitfalls for Legal Remedies (January 31, 2018). Proceedings of the Marco Biagi Conference 2018. Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3141156 Abstract The use of customer ratings to evaluate worker […]

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Supporting new policies and initiatives through data sharing

On 4th October 2017, the interdisciplinary research group on the sharing economy at the UCL organised a workshop with stakeholders (platforms, public authorities) in order to present the first results of the City4CoEn project. At the same time, the project leaders showed to the participants the next phase of the research, involving the public management […]