ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sarah Eskens

Sarah Eskens is an Assistant Professor in Law and Technology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She wrote her dissertation on fundamental rights and recommender systems in the online news sector. In general, she researches and teaches privacy, data protection, and media law.

POSTS BY Sarah Eskens

31 März 2022

Sarah Eskens

Regulating News Recommender Systems in Light of the Rule of Law

Many online services - search, e-commerce, movie streaming, social media, and news - use recommender systems. I argue that it is largely unnecessary and, in any case, contrary to the rule of law to regulate how news media deploy recommender systems to select and rank the news for individual users. Instead, I consider an alternative for state regulation of news recommenders, should empirical research show that certain news recommender systems have harmful effects on individual rights and societies. Continue reading >>

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