Filed under gig-economy
Every brief tagged "gig-economy".
- § 01 · PERSONAL-INFORMATION
Ai Lin — Why Platform Gig Workers Need PI-Protection Tilt and How to Build It
Ai Lin (Jilin University Law School) takes on the under-attended question of personal-information protection for platform gig workers — the food-delivery couriers, ride-hail drivers, freight drivers, and 'internet marketers' who occupy China's new-employment-form category. The structural problem: PIPL's individual-consent baseline doesn't work in employment relations where the worker has no meaningful bargaining power against the platform's algorithmic management. Ai imports the alienated-labor framework from Marx and the 'scenario fairness' principle from contextual integrity to argue for a tilt-protection regime. Three operational responses: enhanced transparency + tiered PI safeguards; treating algorithmic rules as workplace regulations subject to collective bargaining; full-process regulatory accountability. Highly relevant for multinationals operating platform-gig models in China or contracting with Chinese platform workforces.