Dear colleagues, Earlier today the European Digital Media Observatory's Working Group on Platform-to-Researcher Data Access published its official report <https://edmo.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Report-of-the-European-Digital-Media-Observatorys-Working-Group-on-Platform-to-Researcher-Data-Access-2022.pdf> . The multi-stakeholder group has been hard at work for the last year. Our main charge was to draft a Code of Conduct under Article 40 of the GDPR that would facilitate better access to data for independent researchers. This report contains that draft Code. Among other things, the draft Code lays out a framework for assessing the level of risk involved in accessing and conducting research with different types of platform data. It then lays out a number of safeguards that can be put in place to mitigate different levels of risks--helping to promote research that is ethical and responsible. (I tweeted more about it here <https://twitter.com/RebekahKTromble/status/1531611984944316419>.) Getting to this point has entailed tremendously hard work by everyone involved, and, as the report itself notes, the work is far from over. But publishing the report and draft Code represent a major step forward. Though certain requirements are necessarily tied to specifications under the GDPR, the general principles and proposed solutions the report offers are instructive well beyond the European context. Please feel free to circulate widely. And let me know if you have any questions, thoughts, etc. Rebekah Dr. Rebekah Tromble Director, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, George Washington University | Associate Professor, School of Media & Public Affairs, George Washington University | Visiting Researcher, The Alan Turing Institute (London) | www.rebekahtromble.net iddp.gwu.edu