Legal Templates for Data Donation Research Workshop

We invite privacy experts, data stewards, ethics committee members, and researchers to a workshop on Legal Templates for Data Donation Research, organised as part of the NWO TDCC RIGHTS project. The workshop explores the legal and ethical challenges of data donation research.

Data donation is a promising method for studying online behaviour at scale, but navigating its legal and ethical landscape remains a significant challenge. Issues related to personal data collection, platform terms and conditions, and ethics approval procedures are often handled differently across institutions, with limited shared standards or templates.

This workshop brings together stakeholders from across disciplines to address these challenges collaboratively. Through presentations, discussions, and scenario-based breakout sessions, participants will explore emerging approaches to data donation research within the RIGHTS project, review draft legal and ethics templates, and provide feedback to help refine them for broader use.

The aim of the workshop is to support the development of more consistent, practical, and ethically sound frameworks that can be adapted across institutional contexts, and to strengthen collaboration between universities working in this area.