New publications: Improving Workplace Data Protection & Bargaining over Workers’ Data Rights

Halefom H. Abraha is an Assistant Professor at the International and European Law (IER) Department of the Utrecht School of Law. His research and teaching interests lie in AI Regulation, algorithmic management in the labour market, and data protection. He also researches cross-border data access in the law enforcement context and digital sovereignty. Dr. Abraha completed his postdoctoral research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford. He has advised governments and international organisations such as the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on multiple areas of digital technology and public policy.

Joanna Bronowicka is a sociologist at the Center for Interdisciplinary Labour Law Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) where she researches algorithmic management, resistance practices, and mobilisations of platform workers in Berlin. Previously, she worked as the director of the Centre for Internet and Human Rights and as an analyst at the Ministry of Digitisation in Poland.

Justin Nogarede is Senior Policy Officer at FES Future of Work. He focuses on data protection issues at work and the political economy of digitalisation. Before joining the team, he covered the digital policy portfolio at the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS). In the past, he also worked as policy officer in the Secretariat-General of the European Commission, on better regulation, the application of EU law, and various digital and single market policy files.

Michael Six Silberman works as a postdoctoral researcher in the ‘iManage’ Project on ‘Rethinking Employment Law for a World of Algorithmic Management,’ based at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford, and as the Lecturer in Sociotechnical Systems at the London College of Political Technology (Newspeak House). In the past, Silberman worked for IG Metall, the trade union in the German manufacturing sector, on rights for workers on digital labour platforms.