Panoptykon will be present at the CPDP conference in Brussels this season with a panel on digital fairness and consumer empowerment. Panoptykon’s president Katarzyna Szymielewicz will lead the discussion featuring DG Justice and Norwegian Consumer Council.

In the current geopolitical landscape, fixing the logic of VLOPs’ recommender systems is as much a political as a legal challenge.

For nearly a decade, Panoptykon has explored legal and technological solutions to protect vulnerable individuals, and society at large, from harms caused by online platforms’ recommender systems optimised for short-term profit.

What needs to be done to make social media a safer space for people of all ages?