Hi all, I am excited to announce that our new report "Learning to Share: Lessons on Data-Sharing from Beyond Social Media <https://cdt.org/insights/learning-to-share-lessons-on-data-sharing-from-beyond-social-media/>" was just published. It builds on the Center for Democracy & Technology's work <https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-08-15-FX-RAtD-workshop-report-final-int.pdf> to address the problem of independent researcher access to data from social media companies. In this new report we examine how other industries have attempted to balance the benefits of novel research against privacy and other harms, and what social media companies can learn from that. More specifically, we examine data sharing practices among clinical trials, electricity smart meters, and environmental impact statements. Based on this we offer several lessons for social media companies including how: * Baseline information can be shared with researchers without compromising privacy. * Addressing the “black box” problem of how data gets generated will make for more robust, actionable research. * Transparency mechanisms let civil society serve as watchdogs for making sure companies are sufficiently sharing data. * Standards make shared data usable. * Data sharing should be flexible to accommodate public crises. * Ease of understanding is a factor that should be considered in the design of privacy practices. * Data can be tailored to different use cases. * Having a diverse set of actors controlling access to data creates new affordances. You can read a Twitter thread about it here <https://twitter.com/CenDemTech/status/1567879345431089152> and the pdf of the full report is available here <https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220907-learningtoshare-final.pdf>. Feel free to share and we look forward to your feedback. take care, Dhanaraj -- *Dhanaraj Thakur* (he/him) | Research Director Center for Democracy & Technology |*cdt.org <https://cdt.org/>* *E:* dthakur@cdt.org | *P:* +1 202 407 8849 | @thakurdhanaraj