Worker Info Exchange
Algorithmic management
Data protection & privacy
What can I learn?
A data-trust organisation and process for gathering workers' personal data and cases of algorithmic discrimination, in order to reconstruct systemic problems with algorithmic management. It helps platform workers exercise their data-access rights and turns individual records into evidence of structural issues.
Core insight
Data-protection rights are a tool for power, not just privacy: by requesting and pooling the data platforms hold on them, workers can expose management practices that no single data subject could see alone.
How to use it in daily work
Shows clients in platform work that the right of access under GDPR can be used proactively — to understand and challenge how an algorithm is managing them.
- Help a delivery or ride-hail worker understand that they can request the data a platform holds on them, and what that data can reveal.
- Use the project to connect the abstract idea of "data rights" to a concrete, collective use case your clients can relate to.