Hi Mirko - This is just one piece of the issue, but I recently published a paper analyzing legal issues in researchers violating terms of service when collecting data. https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/7290 — Casey Fiesler Assistant Professor Department of Information Science University of Colorado Boulder www.caseyfiesler.com<http://www.caseyfiesler.com> @cfiesler On Oct 28, 2020, at 8:26 AM, Schaefer, M.T. (Mirko) <m.t.schaefer@uu.nl<mailto:m.t.schaefer@uu.nl>> wrote: Dear all, probably, you have seen the latest reports of Zoom shutting down a panel on Zoom censorship or Facebook's cease and desist letter to the NYU's political ad targeting project. I am interested whether there are more examples of legal challenges for researchers. I am particularly interested in issues revolving around GDPR and social media research, contract law and data collection from services such as LexisNexis or others, and terms of use and platforms. I am also interested in the role of university DPO's in reviewing research design, and the infrastructure or the modus operandi put in place (or not) by universities to enable researchers to comply with GDPR, and the legal support (or the lack of it) universities provide for their researchers to carry out their tasks. I'd be very grateful for hints to literature, case examples, your own experience etc. Thanks a lot and best wishes, mirko _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://secure-web.cisco.com/1hC69YWIFVBrdDt3LpBxkFl4-sVuDuftjAmhOWm0bAryPiGB... Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://secure-web.cisco.com/11lpn4Bj5P73IpLkDEViHH43fXxYi57CchqIKZsB8M7evBKw... Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://secure-web.cisco.com/1jxIJhVWfq1MNIRgi-FNI2T7Vr6wy16n1J5GldzmqDCx1pmD...

Hi Mirko -- That is quite a request! You are casting an enormously wide net, across multiple jurisdictions and subject matters -- the Zoom incident was a U.S. antiterrorism Patriot Act problem; GDPR is another matter entirely, when you throw in contract law and other ToS problems, you have literally a lifetime's worth of work to get up to speed on all your topics below (I certainly am not!). There are very steep learning curves on any of these topics, let alone all of them together. If you are looking for reliable commentary on a good cross-section of the issues that interest you, I recommend monitoring Eric Goldman's Technology and Marketing Law blog: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/ (Be sure to use his "categories" menu on the right margin to do some sorting.) He is religious about highlighting any new developments. It is primarily U.S. focused, but it may help you zero in on what you ultimately want to pursue. Cheers, DLB On 2020-10-28 07:26, Schaefer, M.T. (Mirko) wrote:

Dear all,

probably, you have seen the latest reports of Zoom shutting down a panel on Zoom censorship or Facebook's cease and desist letter to the NYU's political ad targeting project. I am interested whether there are more examples of legal challenges for researchers. I am particularly interested in issues revolving around GDPR and social media research, contract law and data collection from services such as LexisNexis or others, and terms of use and platforms.

I am also interested in the role of university DPO's in reviewing research design, and the infrastructure or the modus operandi put in place (or not) by universities to enable researchers to comply with GDPR, and the legal support (or the lack of it) universities provide for their researchers to carry out their tasks.

I'd be very grateful for hints to literature, case examples, your own experience etc.

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