DATARights Seminar 2025
Séminaire DATARights 2025
Access rights, Algorithmic transparency, and Data protection challenges
Droit d'accès, transparence algorithmique et enjeux de protection des données personnelles
Published on Monday, March 03, 2025
Abstract
In the digital age, online platforms collect and exploit huge quantities of personal data, profoundly influencing social, economic and political dynamics. Yet their opaque operation limits access to the information essential for analyzing their mechanisms and measuring their impact. These infrastructures act like black boxes, making the study of their practices particularly complex. The DATARights seminar examines the right of access to personal data as a lever for transparency, particularly in the context of scientific research. Through several sessions in French and English, it will bring together researchers and experts from various disciplines to examine the concrete uses of this right, its limits and the challenges linked to its collective exercise in the face of algorithmic and data governance issues.
Announcement
Presentation
Digital platforms have become essential infrastructures that shape our interactions, decisions and access to information. However, their functioning relies on opaque algorithms and the massive collection of personal data, creating power asymmetries at the heart of surveillance capitalism.
Faced with these challenges, the DATARights project, funded by the French National Research Agency, explores how the right of access to personal data (notably via Article 15 of the GDPR) can be used collectively to reduce this opacity and foster algorithmic transparency.
This seminar proposes to examine this approach by bringing together researchers and experts from various disciplines - law, IT, sociology, political science - around the following themes :
- Access rights as a tool for investigating and controlling platforms
- Methodological and legal obstacles to data access
- Tensions between individual protection and collective interests
- Prospects for more transparent governance of digital systems
With sessions held in both French and English, the seminar is open to the public and accessible both in-class and online.
Seminar funded by the French National Research Agency - Project ANR JCJC DATARights.
ANR-24-CE53-2287-01
Agenda
March 6, 2025
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM (Session in English)
- Inaugural Session: "The Collective Use of Access Rights: Theory and Practice" René Mahieu (Open Universiteit)
Campus Condorcet Nord, 14 cours des Humanités, Aubervilliers – Métro Front Populaire (Room 0.010) & online
April 9, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Session in French)
- Presentation of LINC’s work on design and the right of access, Martin Biery, Audrey Pety & Vincent Toubiana (LINC – CNIL)
Centre Internet et Société, 59-61 rue Pouchet, Paris – Métro Porte de Clichy (Room to be confirmed) & online
May 27, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Session in English)
- "Studying data and opacity in the digital age", Janaki Srinivasan (Oxford School of Global and Area Studies & Oxford Internet Institute)
Centre Internet et Société, 59-61 rue Pouchet, Paris – Métro Porte de Clichy (Room to be confirmed) & online
September 2, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Session in French)
- "Web platforms and data sharing through the right of access : the case of synthetic generation" Anna Krasovskaya (ENS Rennes) & Tristan Allard (IRISA – Université de Rennes)
Centre Internet et Société, 59-61 rue Pouchet, Paris – Métro Porte de Clichy (Room to be confirmed) & online
Participation
Registration : Registration form
Subjects
- Sociology (Main category)
- Society > Political studies > Political science
- Mind and language > Information > Information sciences
- Society > Law > Sociology of law
- Society > Science studies > Sociology of science
- Mind and language > Information > History and sociology of the media
- Society > Political studies > Governance and public policies
- Mind and language > Epistemology and methodology > Digital humanities
Places
- Centre Internet et Société - 59-61 rue Pouchet
Paris, France (75017) - Campus Condorcet Nord, 14 cours des Humanités
Aubervilliers, France (93)
Event attendance modalities
Hybrid event (on site and online)
Date(s)
- Thursday, March 06, 2025
- Wednesday, April 09, 2025
- Tuesday, May 27, 2025
- Tuesday, September 02, 2025
Keywords
- donnée, rgpd, transparence algorithmique, plateforme numérique, gouvernance des données, vie privée, protection des données, droit des données, donnée personnelle, data access rights, gdpr, algorithmic transparency, digital
Contact(s)
- Julien Rossi
courriel : julien [dot] rossi04 [at] univ-paris8 [dot] fr - Martin Sénac
courriel : martin [dot] senac [dot] pro [at] gmail [dot] com
Reference Urls
Information source
- Martin Sénac
courriel : martin [dot] senac [dot] pro [at] gmail [dot] com
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« DATARights Seminar 2025 », Seminar, Calenda, Published on Monday, March 03, 2025, https://doi.org/10.58079/13ep8
