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Discrimination in Online Platforms: A Comparative Law Approach to Design, Intermediation and Data Challenges

Discrimination in Online Platforms: A Comparative Law Approach to Design, Intermediation and Data Challenges

Author: Ana Maria Corrêa
Publisher: Intersentia Publishers
ISBN: 9781839702884
Published In: October 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book focuses on the legal governance of online platforms concerning direct and indirect discrimination against users in the housing, advertising, and labor markets. Through an extensive investigation of sources that include private company practices, antidiscrimination policies, collective and private litigation, court decisions, and public regulation, this book illustrates how statutory law and legal precedents in the E.U. and the U.S. are only partially equipped to address discrimination against statutorily protected classes in online platforms.

In the analysis of the selected sources, the author showcases that the main obstacles to the full implementation of the equality principle rely on online platforms’ structural challenges, including their aesthetic designs, matching tools, evaluation systems, and network effects that ultimately reinforce old biases against protected classes. In light of these structural challenges, the author concludes that the fight against discrimination in online platforms may produce the best results when oriented by a model of regulation that encourages private businesses to implement the principle of transparency, fairness and the active cooperation of antidiscrimination bodies.

General Introduction

TITLE I. ONLINE HOUSING AND ACCOMMODATION MARKETS: THE CROSSROADS OF INTERMEDIARY LIABILITY AND ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW

Introduction

Chapter 1. Fighting Against Discrimination in the Housing and Accommodation Markets

Chapter 2. Housing and Public Accommodation Online Platforms

Conclusion of Title I

TITLE II. ONLINE ADVERTISING MARKETS: WIDESPREAD DATA COLLECTION AND UNEQUAL ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT, GOODS, AND SERVICES

Introduction

Chapter 3. Discrimination in Targeted Advertising: A Path Through Data Collection and Profiling

Chapter 4. Online Platforms: Gatekeepers of Advertisements

Conclusion of Title II

TITLE III. ONLINE LABOR MARKETS: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND DISCRIMINATORY TERMINATION OF PLATFORM WORKERS