Data donation is a promising method for studying online behaviour at scale, but navigating its legal and ethical landscape remains a significant challenge. Issues related to personal data collection, platform terms and conditions, and ethics approval procedures are often handled differently across institutions, with limited shared standards or templates.

This workshop brings together stakeholders from across disciplines to address these challenges collaboratively. Through presentations, discussions, and scenario-based breakout sessions, participants will explore emerging approaches to data donation research within the RIGHTS project, review draft legal and ethics templates, and provide feedback to help refine them for broader use.

On the day, presentations will be given by researchers who have used data donation in their work. Participants will also gain a deeper understanding of the data donation research infrastructure. In addition, the program will include several interactive sessions focused on discussing common ethical and privacy challenges faced by researchers working with data donation.

The aim of the workshop is to support the development of more consistent, practical, and ethically sound frameworks that can be adapted across institutional contexts, and to strengthen collaboration between universities working in this area.