Our very own Eleftherios Chelioudakis is now Executive Director at Homo Digitalis
Who said dreams don’t come true?
After more than 6 years in the role of co-founder and Secretary of the Board of Homo Digitalis, and his voluntary contribution to the organization’s activities, Eleftherios Chelioudakis takes on a new role, that of Executive Director of Homo Digitalis.
This is yet another big and important step for Homo Digitalis on the road to its sustainable development and the emergence of its strategic role in the protection of Human Rights in the modern digital era.
More info about his profile
Eleftherios is a lawyer with deep specialization in emerging technologies. For more than 8 years, he has been providing his expertise in research projects and legal cases involving personal data protection, privacy, intellectual property issues (copyright, trademarks, and industrial property), e-commerce, and cybersecurity.
With a dual academic background in legal studies and computer science, Eleftherios possesses interdisciplinary knowledge and practical expertise to successfully tackle complex challenges. He has worked with international law firms, foreign academic institutions, private companies, civil society organizations, European Union bodies, and international organizations.
Academic Background
- Advanced MSc in Digital Humanities, KU Leuven Computer Science Scool (Cum Laude), 2019
- LL.M in Law & Technology, Tilburg University Law School (valedictorian – Cum Laude), 2017,
- LL.B, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Law School (Very Well), 2014,
- Harvard Law School, CopyrightX, 2018,
- European University Institute and University of Pittsburgh Law School, Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2019
- University of Crete, Advanced Course on AI (ACAI) Summer School, AI for Multi-Agent World, With a scholarship from the European Association of AI (EurAI), 2019,
- University of Ferrara, Advanced Course on AI (ACAI) Summer School, Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence (StarAI). 2018.
Languages
- Greek (mother tongue) και English (IELTS 8), German (B1), Chinese (HSK2)
Participation in Academic and Professional Networks – Associations
- Member of the Piraeus Bar Association (Lawyer at the Court of Appeals)
- Member-Observer of the Council of Europe Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), representing Homo Digitalis
- Member of the AI for Sustainable Development Goals (AI4SDGs) Think Tank at the Center for Long-term Artificial Intelligence (CLAI)
- Member and Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), with certifications: Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe (CIPP/E), Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), and Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT)
- Member of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence & Law
- Member of the Pool of Experts of the European Data Protection Board
- Member of the Data Protection Experts Network (EDEN) of Europol
- Member of the Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) of the European Data Protection Supervisor
- Member of the Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, and the Digital Welfare State Community of Practice at the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law, representing Homo Digitalis
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Jean Monnet Chair in Mediterranean Digital Societies and Law at the Polytechnic University of Turin, representing Homo Digitalis
- Member of the Scientific Network-International Observatory on Vulnerable People in Data Protection (VULNERA) of Vrije Universiteit Brussel & the Future of Privacy Forum, representing Homo Digitalis
- Member of the Justice, Equity, and Technology (JET) Table at the London School of Economics and Political Science, representing Homo Digitalis
- Member of the External Advisory Board of the Horizon Europe Research Program EITHOS (European Identity Theft Observatory System)
- Member of the Working Group of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) on Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity (work concluded in 2020)
- Member of the External Advisory Board of the Horizon 2020 Research Program PopAI – A European Positive Sum Approach towards AI tools in support of Law Enforcement and safeguarding privacy and fundamental rights (work concluded in 2023).
- Lawyer at Law Office Papatriantafyllou & Thanasenari
Publications
- E.Chelioudakis, Unpacking AI-enabled border management technologies in Greece: To what extent their development and deployment are transparent and respect data protection rules, 2024, Computer Law & Security Review, Elsevier,
- F.Metcalfe, L. Dencick, E., Chelioudakis, B. van Eerd, Risking lives: Smart borders, private interests and AI policy in Europe, 2023, Cardiff: Data Justice Lab,
- E.Chelioudakis, Privatization of security, border management, and defense in the EU: does reliance on tech companies erode states’ sovereignty?, 2021, Migration, Security and Resistance 1st Edition, Taylor & Francis-Routledge,
- CEPS Task Force on AI & Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity CEPS Task Force Report Technology, Governance and Policy Challenges, 2021, Centre for European Policy Studies,
- E.Chelioudakis, Automated decision-making systems in the COVID-19 pandemic: a European perspective:Greece, 2020, AlgorithmWach
- E.Chelioudakis, Automating Society Report:Greece, 2020, Algorithmwatch,
- A. Bruni, A. Gorbatyuk, E. Chelioudakis, Trust in Data Markets, 2020, Safe-DEED European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme,
- Α. Λογοθέτη, Γ. Κροντήρης, Ε. Βαμβακά, Κ. Τερζίδου, Κ. Κακαβούλης, Λ. Χελιουδάκης, Μ. Μπάκα, Μ. Ζαχαροπούλου, Covid-19 & Ψηφιακά δικαιώματα στην Ελλάδα, 2020, Homo Digitalis,
- E.Chelioudakis Risk assessment tools in criminal justice: Is there a need for such tools in Europe and would their use comply with European data protection law?, 2020, ANU Journal of Law and Technology,
- CEPS Task Force on AI & Cybersecurity, Evaluation of the HLEG Trustworthy AI Assessment List (Pilot Version), 2020 Centre for European Policy Studies,
- P.Dewitte, E. Chelioudakis, A. Kuczerawy , Legal Requirements for the data sources used by the CUTLER smart city pilots, 2020, CUTLER European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme,
- E.Biasin, E. Kindt, E. Chelioudakis, J. Herveg, LB Louis, S. Gijrath, T. van der Linden, International Academic Report on Data Localisation and the GDPR (subject to confidentiality agreement), 2019, Study coordinated by Milieu, KU Leuven, University of Namur, Leiden University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
- T. Lalova-Spinks, E. Kindt, E. Chelioudakis, G. Verhenneman, A. Delforge, J. Herveg, International Academic Report on Secondary Use of Personal Data for Scientific Research (subject to confidentiality agreement), 2019, Study coordinated by Milieu, KU Leuven, University of Namur, Universiteit Leiden and Universiteit Amsterdam
- E.Chelioudakis, The use of AI Applications in the Legal Domain, Rethinking IT and IP law : celebrating 30 years CiTiP, 2019, Intersentia
- P. Dewitte, A. Kuczerawy, VK Steponėnaitė, E. Chelioudakis, P. Valcke, Legal Taxonomy of the datasets used by the CUTLER smart city pilots, 2019, CUTLER European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme,
- Regularly writing articles for blogspots and other media.
Speeches in Conferences (some few examples)
- InfoLaw, 2024, ΑΙ: From Theory…to practice
- 8th Data Privacy & Protection Conference 2024, Homo Digitalis’ actions before the Hellenic DPA: A brief overview of cases on Metadata Retention, Biometric Databases and AI Systems,
- RightsCon, 2023, How to beat a Centaur? A closer look into technology-led border management in Greece,
- 2nd Quo Vadis AI International Conference, 2022, Artificial Justice, Supervision and Rights,
- RightsCon, 2022, “Breaking the digital baton: counter-power in the age of high-tech policing,
- European Commission’s (DIGIT) Legal Interoperability Team, Better Regulation for Smoother Implementation (BLSI) Series, 2021, Digital-ready policies and the support of new technologies in policy activities,
- The remote Chaos Experience (rC3) organized by the Chaos Computer Club, 2021, The ReclaimYourFace Campaign: EU, ban biometric mass surveillance,
- EDEN Conference organised by Europol and the Academy of European Law, 2021, (Doin’ it right) Making sure good cops are hunting bad guys – not any other way around”,
- Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP), 2021, The Effective Supervision Of Law Enforcement Authorities: A Reality Or A Myth?,
- 11th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2020), Special Event on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Law, When European Criminal Justice meets Orwell: Assessing Risk Assessment tools,
- Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP), 2020, AI and Migration Control: New Tools in the Service of Fortress Borders,
- Twelfth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2018), “AI Risk Assessment Tools: A judge’s best friend?
Homo Digitalis' participation in the Digital World Summit Greece was a great success
Homo Digitalis had the great honor and pleasure to be present with double representation at the Digital World Summit Greece, today Tuesday, May 28th at the National Hellenic Research Foundation!
Specifically, our Vice President and Partner at Digital Law Experts (DLE), Stefanos Vitoratos, participated as a moderator in the 1st panel of the conference, on the topic “#AI: The intersection between regulation and innovation”, in a fascinating discussion with speakers such as Dimitris Gerogiannis (President AI Catalyst), Lilian Mitrou (Professor, Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean), Charalambos Tsekeris (President of the National Bioethics & Technology Ethics Committee), Yannis Mastrogeorgiou (Special Secretary for Long Term Planning, Presidency of the Greek Government) and Fotis Draganidis (Director of Technology at Microsoft Hellas).
Our Director for Human Rights & Artificial Intelligence, Lamprini Gyftokosta, was a speaker at the 2nd panel of the Digital World Summit Greece 2024, on “Cybersecurity, Citizen Security and Artificial Intelligence”! The panel was moderated by Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos (Co-founder & Director, Athens Legal Tech), while Natalia Soulia (Senior Associate | Privacy, Data Protection & Cybersecurity, KG Law FIrm) was also present as a speaker, Thomas Dobridis (Head of the General Directorate of Cybersecurity, Ministry of Digital Governance), Antonis Broumas (Head of Law and Technology, EY Platis-Anastasiades) and Stella Tsitsoula (Founder, RED. comm, Co-Founder | Women4Cyber GR | Founder Hellenic Cybersecurity Institute)!
We would like to thank the organizers for their kind invitation, as every year, to this important conference.
We successfully presented our actions at InfoRights 2024 in Corfu
Homo Digitalis has the great pleasure to participate in the Third Interdisciplinary Conference Info Rights , organized by the Reading Society of Corfu on 17 & 18 May 2024 entitled “Human Rights in the Information Age: Benchmarks of History, Law, Ethics and Culture”.
Specifically, on Saturday 18 May, our member Christos Zanganas represented Homo Digitalis presenting our important actions in the field of Digital Rights in our three pillars of interest, Awareness, Advocacy and Strategic Legal Actions!
We would like to thank the organizers for the kind invitation!
We took an award at CPDP for the Reclaim Your Face campaign
On Tuesday 21 May at the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels the first ever “Europe AI Policy Leader Awards” by the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) took place!!
There the European Digital Rights (EDRi) network, of which Homo Digitalis is the only member in Greece, received the “AI Policy Leader in Civil Society” award for the Reclaim Your Face campaign which was a leader in setting limits on the use of remote biometric identification in the EU AI Act!!!
It is a great honour for Homo Digitalis to be a co-founding member of this campaign, and this award fills all campaign members from the EDRi network and other allies with enthusiasm for all that we can achieve when we act strategically under a common goal!
Thank you CAIDP for this important recognition!
Homo Digitalis with double representation at Digital World Summit Greece
Homo Digitalis has the great honor and pleasure to participate with double representation at the Digital World Summit Greece, on Tuesday 28 May at the National Hellenic Research Foundation!
Specifically, our Vice President and Partner at Digital Law Experts (DLE), Stefanos Vitoratos, will participate as a moderator in the 1st panel of the conference, on the topic “AI: The intersection between regulation and innovation”, in a fascinating panel discussion featuring Dimitris Gerogiannis (President AI Catalyst), Lillian Mitrou (Professor, Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean), Charalambos Tsekeris (President of the National Bioethics & Technology Ethics Committee), Yannis Mastrogeorgiou (Special Secretary of Long Term Planning, Presidency of the Greek Government) and Fotis Draganidis (Director of Technology at Microsoft Hellas).
Our Director for Human Rights & Artificial Intelligence, Lambrini Gyftokosta, will participate as a speaker in the 2nd panel of the Digital World Summit Greece 2024, on the topic “Cybersecurity, Citizen Security and Artificial Intelligence”! This very interesting panel will be moderated by Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos (Co-founder & Director, Athens Legal Tech), while Natalia Soulia (Senior Associate | Privacy, Data Protection & Cybersecurity, KG Law FIrm), Thomas Dombridis (Head of the General Directorate of Cybersecurity of the Ministry of Digital Governance), Antonis Broumas (Head of the Law Department of the Ministry of Digital Governance), Antonis Broumas (Head of the Law Department of the Ministry of Digital Governance), and the Head of the Law Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Greece) will also be present as speakers.
You can register and read more about the conference and its programme here.
Joint Statement of 18 organisations about EU’s White Paper on “How to master Europe's digital infrastructure needs”
Homo Digitalis joined epicenter.works and other 16 organisations, supporting an open internet and a competitive telecommunications market in the European Union!
With our statement, we express our concerns and observations on the current discussions on the future of the EU telecoms sector regulatory framework. Following the publication of the European Commission’s White Paper on “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs” (the “White Paper”), and ahead of the upcoming Telecommunications Council of 21 May 2024, we call on EU Member States to take a pro-competitive, consumer centric approach and oppose any proposals for premature and unjustified changes to the EU telecommunications regulatory framework.
We are especially concerned that the European Commission’s White Paper, in its proposed scenario 5, second bullet point 2, suggests “recommending no markets for presumptive ex ante regulation”. This would amount to a removal of obligations for former monopolist Telecoms incumbents, measures which would result in reduced competition, hinder rollout of high-capacity infrastructure and limit the availability of affordable options for European consumers and businesses.
We therefore regret such considerations of the European Commission in the White Paper and in various public statements since its publication, including that “rules on interconnection should apply to everyone”, or that “an arbitration mechanism could be foreseen”.
We call on EU ministers to take a pro-competition, positive innovation, and consumer centric approach, strongly opposing any policy scenario that may result in legal uncertainty and detrimental consequences for European consumers, businesses and the open internet.
You can read our joint statement here.
We participate in InfoRights 2024 in Corfu
Homo Digitalis has the great pleasure to participate in the Third Interdisciplinary Conference, organized by the Corfu Reading Society on 17 & 18 May 2024 entitled “Human Rights in the Information Age: Benchmarks of History, Law, Ethics and Culture”.
Our member Christos Zanganas will represent Homo Digitalis at the Conference, and on Saturday 18 at 12:00 he will present Homo Digitalis’ work for the protection of human rights in relation to the information society in Greece!
We would like to thank the organizers for the very honorable invitation!
You can register for free to attend the conference in person or read more about it here.
The focus of the interdisciplinary themes of the conference is human rights in relation to information in terms of history, regulation (law and ethics) and culture. It is co-organised by the Cultural and Historical Heritage Documentation Laboratory of TABM, the IHRC Research Group of TABM, and the Ionian University Library and Information Centre with the collaboration of the UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and Heritage-related Activities of the Ionian University, as well as the Corfu Bar Association and the Ionian University Museum Collections.
We bring the "Misinformation" and "What The Future Wants" editions of the international exhibition "The Glass Room" to ADAF 2024!
The “Misinformation” and “What The Future Wants” editions of Tactical Tech’s international exhibition “The Glass Room” will be at the Athens Digital Arts Festival 2024 (ADAF2024)!!
In collaboration with Tactical Tech, the exhibition is brought to Greece by Homo Digitalis, Digital Detox Experience and Open Lab Athens, with the Homo Digitalis team and specifically our members Sophia Antonopoulou, Ariana Rapti and Alkmini Gianni, organising the two exhibitions for ADAF 2024!
ADAF 2024 will take place from 16 to 26 May at the Former Santarosa Courts (48 Stadiou & Arsaki). “The Glass Room: Misinformation Edition” will be available to the audience throughout the festival, while “The Glass Room: What the Future Wants Edition” will be presented in the form of a workshop on Saturday 18/5 at 14.00 by our members Sophia Antonopoulou, Ariana Rapti and Alkmini Gianni.
You can buy tickets for ADAF 2024 and read the full festival programme here.
Many thanks to our three members for their time, energy and dedication in organizing these exhibitions, as well as to ADAF for hosting us!
The Glass Room exhibition has travelled to 61 countries around the world, counting 471 award-winning events and more than 350,000 visitors worldwide. In the past, Homo Digitalis, Digital Detox Experience and Open Lab Athens have presented the exhibitions at the National Library of Greece in Athens and at JOIST Innovation Park in Larissa.
Event of the Greek Chapter of IAPP "AI & Personal Data: Challenges & Solutions in the Age of Digital Privacy"
The Presidency of the Hellenic Chapter of the IAPP-International Association of Privacy Professionals, is organizing on 14 May at 18:30 – 19:00 at FHW GSEBEE, Small Business Institute of GSEBEE an event on “AI & Personal Data: Challenges & Solutions in the Era of Digital Privacy”.
The discussion will be moderated by Stefanos Vitoratos Partner – Digital Law Experts, and Co-Founder and Vice President of Homo Digitalis, while speakers include:
-Dr. Prokopios Drogaris, Cybersecurity Expert, Deputy DPO ENISA, CIPP-E
-Maria Alexandra Papoutsi, Managing Associate, KBVL Law Firm Member of Deloitte Legal, CIPP-E/US
-Alexandros Papacharalambous, CEO-CTO AETHON Engineering, Cofounder & VP Product TransiTool
To register and attend the event in person click here, or to register for an online presentation, click here.
Homo Digitalis is honored that all members of the Bureau of the Hellenic Chapter of the IAPP-International Association of Privacy Professionals are members!