Celebrating our birthday with EDRi
On Tuesday 12 December at 17:30, at the Benaki Museum's Central Amphitheatre (138 Pireos St.) Homo Digitalis celebrates 5 years full of successes, actions, alliances, difficulties, dedication and perseverance for the protection of Human Rights in the modern digital age! Together with us, European Digital Rights (EDRi), the largest network of digital rights organisations in the world, celebrates its 20th anniversary!!!
There, we will be honoured with speeches and presentations by:
-Dr. Wojciech Wiewiorowski, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS),
-Dr. George Roussopoulos, Computer Engineer, Specialist of the Data Protection Authority (DPA),
-Alexandra Toth, Programme Manager, European AI & Society Fund,
-Dr. Alexandra Giannopoulou, digiRISE Programme Manager, Digital Freedom Fund and Researcher at the University of Amsterdam,
-Diego Naranjo, Head of Policy, European Digital Rights
(EDRi),
-Max Schrems, Honorary President of noyb.eu,
-Ioannis Kouvakas, Senior Legal Counsel & Assistant General Counsel, Privacy International,
-Dr. Ilia Siatitsa, Lawyer & Director of the State Accountability Program, Privacy International and
-Gus Hosein, Executive Director, Privacy International.
Admission is free and no registration is now required.
You can view the full schedule of the event here.
We invite you to the celebration of 5 Years of Homo Digitalis & 20 Years of EDRi
We invite you to celebrate our birthday together!
Come and experience what Homo Digitalis has achieved in 5 years – and European Digital Rights (EDRi) in 20 years – of action for the protection of Human Rights in the modern digital age.
The event is free of charge and will be followed by networking drinks
Registration required by 1/12 here.
We will celebrate together with key speakers who will honour us :
-Dr. Wojciech Wiewiorowski, EDPS – European Data Protection Supervisor
-Dr. George Rousopoulos, Computer Engineer, Specialist Scientist, DPO
-Alexandra Toth, Programme Manager, European AI & Society Fund & Society Fund,
-Dr. Alexandra Giannopoulou, digiRISE Project Manager of the Digital Freedom Fund and Researcher at the University of Amsterdam
-Eliza Triantafyllou, Journalist, inside story.,
-Diego Naranjo, Head of Policy, European Digital Rights (EDRi)
-Max Schrems, Honorary President noyb.eu
-Ioannis Kouvakas, Senior Legal Counsel & Assistant General Counsel, Privacy International
*The exact programme of the event will be published in the coming days.
Our participation in the launching event of the TechTalk Podcast of Sociality and Open Lab Athens
We have a proposal for your Wednesday afternoon!
#TechTalk , a podcast* about technology is here! And we invite you to check it out before the episodes start!
On Wednesday 29/11 at 18:00 at red n’ noir (53 Drosopoulou Street, Kypseli) we are waiting for you to discuss “what is technology” really? Is our flush toilet technology? What is the difference between it and our mobile phone? How does it affect our lives?
Event Programme:
– Project Presentation | Antonis Faras, Sociality
– Presentation of Participatory Lab Results | Giannis Zgeras, Vily Mylona, Ph.D., Gregory Tsardanidis, Open Lab Athens
– Open discussion: “What is Technology” with Elpida Vamvaka, President of Homo Digitalis and Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Professor, Newcastle University, !Open Lab – Newcastle University & Open Lab Athens .
Coordinated by Koutiva Nadiana, Sociality
*TechTalk is a project of Sociality in collaboration with Open Lab Athens and with the support of Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Greece
We participated in the DFF's Berlin event on the use of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in our legal actions
Last week we participated in the workshop organised by DFF in Berlin focusing on the importance of using the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in our legal actions!
DFF launched the digiRISE project to raise awareness of the potential of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in defending and protecting digital rights.
The workshop was attended by Privacy International, Access Now, Share Foundation and many other civil society organisations.
Homo Digitalis was represented by Elpida Vamvaka, President of the Board of Homo Digitalis.
Many congratulations to the DFF team for the organization!
We have prepared an easy-to-read infographic on developments at the AI Act trilateral conferences
How are the tripartite conferences progressing in the context of the adoption of the proposed EU AI legislation?
Together with European Digital Rights and other key civil society organisations we have been working closely with over the last few years on this legislative dossier, we have prepared a graphic to highlight where we are with meeting our demands for the protection of Human Rights.
We have achieved significant improvements, but unfortunately there are still many provisions that do not meet our requests. You can read more on the relevant here.
The opening of the 2 exhibitions we co-organize at JOIST Innovation Park in Larissa was a great success
Last Thursday, 16/11 we had the opening of the exhibition TheGlassRoom and its two editions, Misinformation and What The F*ture Wants, at the wonderful premises of JOIST Innovation Park in Larissa.
Many local TV channels were there to cover the event, including Thessalia Television, where Katerina Diminikou, Stefanos Vitoratos and Anastasios Arabatzis gave statements. Many thanks to the channel for the coverage of the inauguration and the interest in our actions!
It is a great honor for us and our partners from Open Lab Athens and Digital Detox Experience to bring to Greece and outside of Athens these unique exhibitions of high educational character of Tactical Tech and we would like to thank once again Joist Innovation Park for the unique hospitality.
Admission to the exhibitions is free and they will be available in Larissa for young and old until December 15. You can see highlights and statements from the interview here.
Opening of the exhibitions we co-organize at JOIST Innovation Park in Larissa
Today is the opening of The Glass Room Exhibition and its two editions, Misinformation and What The Future Wants, at JOIST Innovation Park in Larissa.
It is a great honor for all of us at Homo Digitalis, Open Lab Athens and Digital Detox Experience to be able to bring together for the first time in Greece both publications, curated by our dear partners at Tactical Tech!!
The “Misinformation” edition focuses on the concept of misinformation, the way it is formed and evolves. Similarly, “What the F*ture Wants” is an interactive youth-focused version of the exhibition, presenting different aspects of technology, seen from a personal, political and global perspective.
Admission is of course free and we are looking forward to young and old from today until 16 December to enjoy these two unique versions of TheGlassRoom exhibition!
Homo Digitalis was represented at the opening by Stefanos Vitoratos and Anastasios Arampatzis!!! We would like to thank our partners at Tactical Tech, Joist Innovation Park, Open Lab Athens and Digital Detox Experience for this unique collaboration!
The Greek DPA discussed in a Plenary Session our Case on Electronic Communications Metadata Retention
Yesterday, Tuesday 14/11, we were present at the Plenary Session of the Greek DPA during which our case concerning the retention of electronic communications metadata and the right of access to them was discussed. Our Secretary, Eleftherios Chelioudakis, who is the Data Subject in this case, participated there.
In simple terms, metadata allows us to establish who spoke to whom, via which devices, when, for how long, and where the users were approximately located during their conversation. Therefore, metadata is not about the content of the communication but about all the other accompanying elements of the communication. All electronic communications providers in Greece are required to keep it for one year from the date of the communication.
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in 2014 that the retention of this amount of metadata for everyone, everywhere and always, constitutes a mass surveillance measure that allows for particularly accurate conclusions to be drawn with regard to the privacy of the persons whose data has been retained, and violates the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, ruling Directive 2006/24, which allowed for this, as invalid.
However, the Greek State has not revised until today, almost 10 years later, the Law 3917/2011 that transposes this Directive into the Greek legal landscape, while as Homo Digitalis revealed in 2019 the relevant legislative committee that was asked to prepare a new draft law, an explanatory memorandum and an impact assessment on this matter ever delivered any work in the 5 years of its existence (2014-2019).
We look forward with great interest to the next stages of the process and have full confidence in the work of the Greek DPA.
We met with the Ministry of Digital Governance for the AI Act
Today, Lambrini Gyftokosta and Konstantinos Kakavoulis represented Homo Digitalis in a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Digital Governance.
The topic of discussion: The regulation of AI in the European Union and in Greece.
We would like to thank the representatives of the Ministry for the very fruitful dialogue! We continue to follow the developments and actively participate in their co-shaping.