Homo Digitalis gives an interview on ATHINA 9.84
This Friday, November 28, at 19:30, tune in to ATHINA 9.84!
Homo Digitalis is delighted to be a guest on the radio show of the Hellenic League for Human Rights, where we will talk about our work in the field of digital rights.
Our Co-founder and Treasurer of the Board, Konstantinos Kakavoulis, will represent us, while the show will be hosted by Taygeti Michalakea, Board Member of the Hellenic League for Human Rights.
We warmly thank them for the kind invitation and the honorable interest in our work!
Homo Digitalis at an Expert Workshop on the Evaluation of AI Models
In mid October, Homo Digitalis had the great honor of taking part in an expert workshop that took place at the Weizenbaum Institute, contributing to an exciting initiative on participatory and community-oriented hashtagAIauditing.
Researchers Goda Klumbytė (University of Kassel) and David Hartmann (Technische Universität Berlin) conducted stakeholder interviews and a co-design workshop to collaboratively develop a toolkit that supports civil society organisations in understanding and auditing AI/GenAI systems more effectively.
Our team presented our methodology for investigating the lack of legal compliance in AI and GenAI systems, showcasing key successes from our national-level legal battles.
We also discussed our ongoing initiative to co-create a network of civil society organisations in Greece, uniting expertise and resources to build trust and collaborate in pushing back against intrusive GenAI tools. Maria Mouchika and Eleftherios Chelioudakis represented Homo Digitalis at this event.
We extend our warm thanks to the organisers for their kind invitation and for fostering a collaborative environment in academia where civil society voices help shape meaningful AI accountability practices.
Participation of Homo Digitalis in a Conference on Spyware
On Friday, November 21, Homo Digitalis was represented by our member and Lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court, Melina Skondra, who delivered an outstanding contribution in the third panel of the conference “The Rule of Law Today in Greece and Europe,” on the topic: Spyware, surveillance, and human rights.
We had the honor of sharing the panel with Thanasis Koukakis, journalist and victim of surveillance, and Maria Alexandri, Lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court and member of the Research Group on Information Law at the University of Macedonia.
The conference was organized by DEMOTRUST with the support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, under the auspices of the Centre for European Constitutional Law and syntagmawatch.gr, with ROSA MEDIA as the media sponsor.
We thank the organizers for their kind and honorable invitation!
Press Release on today’s announcement of the Digital Omnibus packages:
The proposed provisions of the Digital Omnibus were made public today, placing our rights and the safeguards protecting us in the digital environment at serious risk.
These new proposed regulations threaten the core of the European data protection framework and a range of other digital rights, directly affecting key instruments such as the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, and the AI Act.
The European Commission’s broader deregulation agenda primarily serves the interests of large technology companies, sidelining fundamental rights. Through these choices, the European Commission is effectively deviating from its mission and failing to fulfil its institutional responsibility.
We call on the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament to reject this attempt to dismantle the European framework for Digital Rights, and instead to focus on the consistent and effective enforcement of the rules that are already in place.
Read our full press release here.
We Became a Member of the Union of Small and Medium-Sized Civil Society Organizations
We are pleased to announce that Homo Digitalis is now a member of the Union of Small and Medium-Sized Civil Society Organizations, a dynamic network focused on mutual information-sharing, cooperation, and collective advocacy for an unobstructed and functional civil society environment in Greece.
Together with organizations from diverse fields, ranging from social welfare to culture and education, we are committed to strengthening the voice of Civil Society!
We warmly thank the Union of Small and Medium-Sized Civil Society Organizations for their trust!
Joint Open Letter on the Digital Omnibus Packages to the European Commission
On Wednesday, 19 November, the European Commission will present the new “Digital Omnibus,” a reform that threatens to dismantle fundamental protections of our rights and freedoms in the digital sphere.
In May and October 2025, we warned through open letters that this initiative is part of a broader wave of deregulation that will weaken key European rules, portraying rights as an obstacle to innovation and serving the interests of major technology companies.
A few days ago, leaked draft documents confirmed our fears: the EU is one step away from the largest rollback in the protection of human rights in the digital space. The GDPR, ePrivacy, and even the already weak provisions of the AI Act appear to be targeted for dilution, along with other related legislation.
Together with European Digital Rights, 127 organizations, trade unions, academics, and companies are joining their voices and calling on the European Commission to immediately halt any attempt to undermine our fundamental digital rights—efforts that benefit only the business models of large corporate giants.
Read our letter here.
Participation of Homo Digitalis in a Working Group of the European Commission’s AI Office
We’re excited to share that last week Homo Digitalis, represented by our member Tania Skrapaliori, participated in the European Commission’s AI Office Kick-off Plenary for the drafting of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content (Article 50 AI Act).
We are eager to participate in the respective working groups and actively contribute to this process
During the session, participants heard from the AI Office, met the Chairs and Vice-Chairs responsible for drafting the Code, and learn about insights gathered through the recent multi-stakeholder consultation on transparency requirement
We are co-organizing Journals n’ Spirits 2025 and we look forward to seeing you there!
Join us at Journals n’ Spirits 2025, organized by omniatv at the Kypseli Municipal Market, on November 13 & 14!
Sixteen independent journalism, research, and print media initiatives—including Homo Digitalis—will host workshops, discussions, and live broadcasts. All of this while enjoying our favorite drinks, and, in collaboration with the Skrip Bookstore, publications by members of the participating initiatives will also be available throughout the two-day event.
We will be speaking on November 13 at 14:00 about digital payments and the GNU Taler tool (NGI TALER | Taler Systems S.A.), which is based on the principles of free/libre software and is reshaping the model of electronic micropayments with respect for privacy.
Learn more about the workshops, broadcasts, photo exhibition, and documentary screening in the detailed two-day program available here.
Participating initiatives (in alphabetical order):
Vlavi (magazine), Copwatch GR, FactReview, Femicide.gr, Homo Digitalis, INFOWAR, inside story., Jacobin Greece, KRAX Radio, The Manifold, OmniaTV, Reporters United, Solomon, The Untold, Vouliwatch, YUSRA (magazine/publications).
Speech by Homo Digitalis at the 9th Conference of Young Lawyers in Thessaloniki
ELSA Thessaloniki and the Association of Trainee and Young Lawyers of Thessaloniki (EANDiTh) are organizing the 9th Conference of Young Lawyers today and tomorrow at the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
It is a great honor for Homo Digitalis to participate in this event, and we sincerely thank the organizers for their kind invitation.
More specifically, tomorrow, November 1, from 10:45 to 12:15, during the first panel of the day entitled “Contemporary Issues of Liability in the Digital World,” our member Melina Skondra will speak.
She is a Lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court, DPO, CIPP/E, and holds an MSc in Law & Informatics (University of Macedonia), with unique specialization in relevant fields.
The title of her presentation is “GDPR & Compensation.”
The line-up of the other speakers includes:
Spiros Tassis, POTAMITISVEKRIS (TMT, Data & IP), Chairman of the Hellenic Data Protection and Privacy Association, and Member of the Board of the European Federation of Data Protection Officers (EFDPO)
Athanasios-Antonios Leontaris, Lawyer / Legal Counsel and Industry Fellow at the Institute for the Future, University of Nicosia
Pavlos Salonikidis, Lawyer admitted to the Courts of Appeal, holder of an LL.M. in International and European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
We look forward to seeing you there!