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W.J. (Jill) Toh

Faculty of Law
Information Law
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15514
    1001 NA Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Publications

    2023

    • Li, W., & Toh, W. J. (2023). Data Subject Rights as a Tool for Platform Worker Resistance: Lessons from the Uber/Ola Judgments. In H. Matsumi, D. Hallinan, D. Dimitrova, E. Kosta, & P. De Hert (Eds.), Data Protection and Privacy. - Volume 15: In Transitional Times (Computers, Privacy and Data Protection). Hart Publishing. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/cxhv4

    2021

    • Helberger, N., Eskens, S., Strycharz, J., Bouchè, G., van Hoboken, J., van Mil, J., Toh, J., Appelman, N., van Apeldoorn, J., van Eechoud, M., van Doorn, N., Sax, M., & de Vreese, C. (2021). Conditions for technological solutions in a COVID-19 exit strategy, with particular focus on the legal and societal conditions: report for ZonMw. IViR, University of Amsterdam. https://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/download/covid-report.pdf [details]

    2020

    • Appelman, N. M. I. D., Toh, W. J., Fahy, R. F., & van Hoboken, J. V. J. (2020). Techno-optimism and solutionism as a crisis response. In L. Taylor, G. Sharma, A. Martin, & S. Jameson (Eds.), Data Justice and COVID-19: Global Perspectives (pp. 190-195). Meatspace Press.

    2022

    • Ausloos, J. (Author), Toh, J. (Author), & Giannopoulou, A. (Author). (2022). How the GDPR can exacerbate power asymmetries and collective data harms: To what extent are the GDPR's data rights an effective tool for enabling collective action?. Web publication or website, Ada Lovelace Institute. https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/gdpr-power-asymmetries-collective-data-harms/
    • Ausloos, J. (Author), Toh, J. (Author), & Giannopoulou, A. (Author). (2022). The case for collective action against the harms of data-driven technologies: To what extent are the GDPR's data rights an effective tool for enabling collective action?. Web publication or website, Ada Lovelace Institute. https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/collective-action-harms/
    • Ausloos, J. (Author), Toh, J. (Author), & Giannopoulou, A. (Author). (2022). The role of collective action in ensuring data justice: Five preconditions to protecting people from data-driven collective harms. Web publication or website, Ada Lovelace Institute. https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/data-collective-action-justice/
    • Pavel, V., Kind, C., Strait, A., Parker, I., Reeve, O., Peppin, A., Katarzyna, S., Veale, M., MacDonald, R., Lynskey, O., Nemitz, P., Brown, I., Sadowski, J., Ausloos, J., Toh, W. J., & Giannopoulou, A. (2022). Rethinking data and rebalancing digital power.

    2021

    Media appearance

    Talk / presentation

    • Toh, J. (speaker) (24-11-2022). Transparency Rules for Digital Infrastructures, Digital Legal Talks 2022, Utrecht.
    • Toh, J. (speaker) (24-11-2022). From the Individual to the Collective: Limits of Data Rights and the (collective) promises of the proposed Platform Work Directive, Digital Legal Talks 2022, Utrecht.
    • Toh, J. (speaker) (1-11-2022). Making it Work in the Digital Era: The Constitutive Role of Law in the Platform Economy, Radical approaches to platform governance, Dublin.
    • Toh, J. (speaker) (14-10-2022). Making It Work in the Digital Era: Platform workers, algorithmic management and the law, Reshaping Work, Amsterdam.
    • Toh, J. (speaker) & Appelman, N. (speaker) (14-7-2022). International dimensions of Law & Political Economy, Law and Society, Lisbon.
    • Toh, J. (speaker) & McHugh-Russell, L. (speaker) (13-7-2022). Constitutive Functions of Law, Law and Society, Lisbon.
    • Toh, J. (invited speaker) (1-7-2022). The Race to Regulate AI, The Race to Regulate AI.
    • Ausloos, J. (speaker), Toh, J. (speaker), Ekker, A. (speaker), González Fuster, G. (speaker) & Veale, M. (speaker) (9-6-2022). Fight the Power! Data Rights and Social Justice in the Platform Economy, Re:Publica, Berlin.
    • Toh, J. (speaker) & Li, W. (speaker) (25-5-2022). Data Subject Rights as a Tool for Platform Worker Resistance: Lessons from the Uber/Ola Judgments, CPDP, Brussels.
    • Toh, J. (speaker) (24-5-2022). Collectively Making It Work: (F)Laws of Individual Approaches to Resist Platform Power, CPDP, Brussels.
    • Ausloos, J. (speaker), Toh, J. (speaker), Veale, M. (speaker), González Fuster, G. (speaker) & Ekker, A. (speaker) (9-5-2022). Fight the Power! Data Rights and Social Justice in the Platform Economy, Re:Publica, Berlin.
    • Toh, J. (speaker) (22-3-2022). AI and Fairness in Recruitment and Employment, Lorentz Workshop, Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making .
    • Ausloos, J. (speaker), Giannopoulou, A. (speaker) & Toh, J. (speaker) (3-3-2022). Collective empowerment, structural injustice and the GDPR, Data Commons Workshop, Utrecht.
    • Toh, J. (speaker) (25-11-2021). Legal Realities of Extraction, Ius Commune Conference 2021, Maastricht.
    • Toh, J. (invited speaker) (15-7-2021). Summer School of the European Law School, Humboldt University, Berlin.
    • Ausloos, J. (speaker) & Toh, J. (speaker) (7-6-2021). Data rights and platform resistance in the context of online sex work, Researching adult content creators on digital platforms
      .
    • Toh, J. (speaker) (2021). Gig workers, data rights and forms of resistance: Cases against Uber and Ola at the Amsterdam District Court, Law in the Algorithmic Society.
    • Toh, J. (speaker) (25-8-2020). From Platform Governance to Platformed Cities: Corporate-State Entanglements in Europe, European Consortium for Political Research.

    Others

    • Toh, J. (participant) (2-11-2022). Association of Internet Researchers 2022 Internet Research conference. Doctoral Colloqium (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Toh, J. (participant) (24-4-2022). Digital Freedom Fund Annual Strategy Meeting 2022. Facilitator for the Labour and Tech session (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Toh, J. (organiser) & Terzis, P. (organiser) (6-10-2021). LPE Europe (Digitalisation). The Law and Politics of Programmable Infrastructures (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Toh, J. (participant) (16-9-2021). Transformative effects of COVID-19 on Globalisation & Law. Presented on the panel "Transformation in Platform Work" (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.lawandglobalisation.nl/tegl-conference-2021/
    • Giannopoulou, A. (organiser), Toh, J. (organiser) & Ausloos, J. (organiser) (10-6-2021). IASC 2021 Knowledge Commons Virtual Conference. Resisting platformised education through data rights (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Giannopoulou, A. (organiser), Toh, J. (organiser) & Ausloos, J. (organiser) (20-5-2021). TILTing Perspectives 2021, Tilburg . "What's Work Got To Do With It? Data Rights and Platform Resistance"
      (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Toh, J. (participant) (2021). Research Platform Governance of Digital Practices (University of Vienna). Invited to take part in the kick-off workshop of the new research platform “Governance of Digital Practices” at the University of Vienna. (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). https://digigov.univie.ac.at/news-events/kick-off-of-the-research-platform-14th-january-2021/
    • Toh, J. (participant) (2021). Digital Freedom Fund Annual Strategy Meeting 2021. Invited to be a facilitator for the session "Gig Economy and Platform-Worker Relations" (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Toh, J. (organiser), Ausloos, J. (organiser) & Giannopoulou, A. (organiser) (2021). Privacy Camp (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Toh, J. (participant) (9-6-2020 - 4-8-2020). Anti-Monopoly and Regulated Industries (AMRI) Summer Academy (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Toh, J. (participant) (2020). European Consortium for Political Research General Conference 2020 (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
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