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1. These signatories explicitly commit to provide automated access to non-personal data & anonymised, aggregated or manifestly made public data.This is potentially huge - it could entail the development of a Crowdtangle platform for all these companies

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11:59 AM · Jun 16, 2022

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2. These companies also commit to fund and cooperate with a future independent third party body that can vet researchers and research proposals - as recommended by the EDMO Working Group on Access to Data

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May 31, 2022

The @EDMO_EUI Working Group on Platform-to-Researcher Data Access, published its 182p report on how platforms can share platform data, including sensitive personal data, with researchers in a GDPR-compliant way.This work is important for multiple reasons

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3. Again, this is huge. Such a body would enable the sharing of more sensitive datasets, including those that include personal data, subject to safeguards and protocols to be defined by that third party body.

Here are the relevant companies who committed to this digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/sig

3. In the meantime. relevant signatories commit to engage in pilot programs to share data with researchers before the third party body is fully set up.

4.Signatories will "not prohibit or discourage genuinely and demonstratively public interest good faith research into disinformation on their platforms,and will not take adversarial actions against researcher users or accounts that undertake or participate in good-faith research

This is the closest thing we'll get in the EU at the moment to approve data scraping in the public interest

@LauraEdelson2

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@JameelJaffer

There is a lot to unpack here, and to fully explain the interaction between this Code, the Digital Services Act and the EDMO code, which I might do properly in the next couple of weeks in a longer blog/piece.

I am looking forward to continue to help developing these mechanisms in the next months. But now its time for a break 😴.

Final thought: if companies commit to this in the EU, then why wouldn't they be able to do something similar in the US - or other parts of the world? To be continued.

Jun 29, 2022

Direct link to the Code here: ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/r (since I always have to click through the EC-side 8 times before arriving at the PDF).