Can a Fair Power Balance be Achieved in the Web Ecosystem with the Help of Computer Science Research? Today’s websites and apps are complex applications built with numerous intermediary services. Such services help website owners to build their websites/apps, help them integrate third-party advertising services, or propose compliance and monetization solutions. While these services often facilitate online tracking and collection of personal data, they sometimes include manipulative practices aimed at website owners, yet it’s unclear how such services are covered the ePrivacy/GDPR or the DSA. As a result, intermediary services may deflect responsibility onto other actors, placing compliance obligations mostly on website owners. In this panel, we present the chains of dependencies between intermediary services down to website/app owners, analyze the current EU regulatory framework, identify challenges for website owners and discuss how research from Computer Science can help improve compliance. Questions to be answered: - Do GDPR and DSA properly cover all the data processing and manipulative practices of intermediate services and ensure the fair balance of power? - How usable privacy research can contribute to better understanding the power imbalance between intermediate service providers and website/app owners and improving compliance? - How difficult is to integrate intermediary services in website/app products and what challenges companies face when ensuring compliance? - What technical tools from Computer Science can help website/app owners and regulators to audit compliance with GDPR and DSA? Organised by Inria with Nataliia Bielova (moderator), Wojciech Jukowski, Sepideh Ghanavati, Cristiana Santos, Karel Kubicek More information: https://cpdp.be/4865
Can a Fair Power Balance be Achieved in the Web Ecosystem with the Help of Computer Science Research?
Organised by Inria with Nataliia Bielova (moderator), Wojciech Jukowski, @sepi-gh.bsky.social, Cristiana Santos, Karel Kubicek
More information: cpdp.be/4865
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