Homo Digitalis has made its first recruitment! We welcome Lamprini Gyftokosta, our Director of Human Rights & AI Issues
This is an impressive milestone moment for Homo Digitalis!!!!
We are excited to announce that we have hired our first full-time, paid staff member, our new Director of Human Rights & AI, Lamprini Gyftokosta!!!
We are extremely fortunate to have Lambrini on board!!! Her extensive experience in complex legal & technological issues, as well as her deep knowledge of the relevant challenges arising from the use of new technologies in Human Rights will help us to continue our successful course and improve our strategic actions!
Welcome Lamprini!!!
We are extremely grateful to the European AI & Society Fund for believing in us and giving us the opportunity to professionalize our organization! Of course, we can’t thank EDRi enough for all the partnerships, visibility and support over the last 5 years that helped Homo Digitalis believe in its potential and achieve significant victories!!!
The European Parliament plenary voted to ban mass biometric surveillance in public places
The European Parliament plenary voted today on its text on the proposed legislation on Artificial Intelligence (AI Act).
The ban on mass biometric surveillance in public places in real time was adopted by the plenary with 335 votes in favour to 235 votes against. We are very proud of the outcome of this vote, despite the fact that there remain provisions in the proposed legislation that pose significant challenges to Human Rights!
But how did our representatives vote? On 25/5, Homo Digitalis had sent open letters to all Greek MEPs, so that no one can claim not to know what is at stake in today’s vote.
We are glad that MEPs Arvanitis, Kokkalis, Kouloglou, Kountoura, Kirtos, Papadimoulis, and Papandreou voted in favour of maintaining the position of the IMCO and LIBE Committees of the European Parliament on the ban. We are concerned that MEPs Vozemberg-Vryonidis, Zagorakis, Kefalogiannis, Meimarakis and Spyraki voted against maintaining this position, and we remain at their disposal to highlight with our positions and arguments the need for a ban on mass biometric surveillance in public places in real time without exceptions.
Nothing has been decided yet, however, as the trilateral negotiations are now beginning!
Homo Digitalis at the 3rd Youth & Lifelong Learning Festival in Larissa!!
From today until Thursday 15/6, Homo Digitalis is together with JOIST and iED – Institute of Entrepreneurship Development at the 3rd Youth & Lifelong Learning Festival in beautiful Larissa!!
Come to the central square (Sapka Square) to enjoy a unique program full of music, film screenings, workshops, interesting talks and many, many surprises!
Many thanks to our member Anastasios Arampatzis who represents Homo Digitalis in the festival and the organizations JOIST & iED – Institute of Entrepreneurship Development for the kind invitation and the excellent cooperation!!!!
We will be waiting for you at the booth to discuss new technologies and Human Rights in the modern digital age!
The detailed programme of the 3rd Youth & Lifelong Learning Festival can be found here.
We spoke on Ant1's Main Newscast
Stefanos Vitoratos, representing Homo Digitalis, participated in a report for the main newscast of ANT1 regarding the recent DDoS attack against the Subject Bank of the Institute of Educational Policy.
“Cyber attacks should be considered part of everyday life as we invest in the digital transformation of the state. This attack was simply a wake-up call on the need to protect critical infrastructure,” the release said, among other things.
You can view the relevant excerpt here. We thank ANT1 for including and reporting on our actions.
We talked about Artificial Intelligence in Action24's ActionStory documentary
What are the challenges of using AI applications?
Why is a clear legal framework regulating AI necessary?
What does the draft EU Regulation provide for?
These and many more questions were answered by Konstantinos Kakavoulis for Action24’s #ActionStory documentary representing Homo Digitalis.
Soon on our screens!
Our third speech at the CPDP was a success
Last Friday we spoke at the workshop “The Right of Access to Police Databases” organized by Vrije Universiteit Brussel in the framework of CPDP Conferences 2023, next to representatives of EDPS – European Data Protection Supervisor , Europol and Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles!!
Homo Digitalis was represented by Stergios Konstantinou, talking about our relevant actions / cases and the legal framework in Greece and Cyprus!
We would like to thank the organizers for the kind and honorable invitation and their interest in our actions!
Our participation in the 8th Data Privacy & Protection Conference 2023
Homo Digitalis has the great pleasure and honor to participate in the 8th Data Privacy & Protection Conference 2023, on 31/05, at OTE Academy Amphitheatre!
There we will talk about Homo Digitalis’ actions before the DPA, giving a brief overview of our cases on Electronic Communications Metadata Preservation, Biometric Data Bases, Artificial Intelligence Systems, and much more!
We would like to thank the organizers BOUSSIAS, LAWYER | The Business Magazine for their honorary invitation and interest in our activities, as well as for providing a number of free invitations for our members!
Homo Digitalis will be represented in our presentation by our Board Secretary Eleftherios Chelioudakis
You can register and see the detailed agenda of the conference here.
Joint report with noyb on the implementation of GDPR
Tomorrow marks 5 years since GDPR came into force! Noyb.eu has prepared a feature on the challenges of implementing its provisions in many countries in Europe, with Homo Digitalis covering Greece!
In this feature we highlight how:
-Despite the high specialization of the scientific staff of the DPAA, it remains low paid and has limited human and financial resources,
This results in a significant impact on the speed of processing of the cases under examination, with long delays both in decision-making and even in their finalisation and publication!
In addition to Greece, the feature covers countries such as Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain.
Many thanks to noyb.eu for the excellent cooperation!
The feature is available here:
We are talking at the CPDP for the 3rd time!
Homo Digitalis speaks for the third year at the CPDP Conference (Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference), the largest international conference on data protection and privacy in the modern digital age!
This year we are participating as speakers in the workshop organized by Vrije Universiteit Brussel entitled “The Right of Access to Police Databases”, in which representatives of important institutions such as EDPS – European Data Protection Supervisor, Europol and UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles are present alongside us! This is another important recognition of Homo Digitalis’ actions in this field at European level!
In the workshop session of Friday 26 May, we will be represented by our member and lawyer Stergios Konstantinou! We would like to thank the organizers for the invitation!
You can see the CPDP2023 programme and register here.