The European right to repair refers to a set of policies and regulations aimed at ensuring that consumers have the ability to repair and maintain the products they purchase. These policies are designed to counteract a trend toward products becoming more difficult to repair, due to e.g., design choices, software locks, and a lack of… Read more
Complaint against discrimination with job ads by Facebook
Facebook’s ad platform often shows job ads based on historical gender stereotypes, NGO Global Witness found when they placed genderneutral ads on the platform and reviewed the data. Ads for pilots and mechanics were shown mostly to men; ads for preschool teachers mostly to women. Global Witness together with female rights’ organisation Clara Wichmann filed… Read more
e-lending for public libraries
This policy brief examines the practice of e-lending with a focus on public libraries. Currently, public libraries face legal uncertainty regarding the legality of lending e-books due to copyright issues and the implementation of the public lending right. This policy brief aims to further provide recommendations on how to improve legal certainty on public e-lending at EU level.
The best kept secret of datingapps: study on algorithmic transparency
Algorithms have a lot of impact on our lives. But we often know little about they way they work. The Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security engaged the ILP Lab to perform a study on transparency with regard to automated decision making. Student researchers used a case study on dating apps to review to what… Read more
Distinguishing ‘harmful’ and ‘illegal’ content in the DSA
The ILP Lab is partnering with the DSA observatory and the data rights agency AWO to investigate the proposed requirement for online intermediaries to distinguish ‘harmful’ and ‘illegal’ content on their services. In the proposal for a Digital Services Act (COM/2020/825 final), the European Commission amongst other things urges providers of intermediary services to take… Read more
End-to-end encryption under child protection rules
End-to-end encryption is applied in various communication services. It provides secure communications and affords its users privacy. However, encryption also makes it difficult for law enforcement to detect and investigate the distribution of images of child sexual abuse via these services. Recently, various policymakers, including the Dutch government, have proposed to restrict encryption in chat… Read more
Data retention revisited
The ILP Lab, together with EDRI, is critically revisiting the question of data retention. Are the ongoing aspirations to reintroduce a data retention obligation in the EU remain in violation of EU law as long as the strict necessity of data retention is unproved and no genuinely targeted retention obligation is considered ? In light… Read more
Processing of children’s personal data on social media platforms
In collaboration with the Dutch Consumer Organisation the ILP lab is conducting research into the processing of children’s personal data on social media platforms. According to the GDPR, platforms must offer ‘specific protection’ to children with regard to the processing of their personal data (recital 38 GDPR). The question is whether this is really actually done. Another… Read more
Creating legal space for web harvesting by national heritage institutions
Whilst the importance of preserving websites and web content is recognized already for long time by organizations like UNESCO (2003 Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage) and the EU (EC Recommendation 2011/711/EU), not all EU Member States have legislation in place that allows national heritage institutions to harvest and archive the web. The ILP… Read more
Dispute resolution mechanisms for online content moderation
The ILP Lab is partnering with the Transatlantic High Level Working Group on its project ‘Content Moderation Online and Freedom of Expression’. The purpose of this project is to identify and encourage adoption of scalable solutions on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean to reduce hate speech, violent extremism and viral deception online, while protecting… Read more