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.
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.
We were present at the EDRi GA for 2023!
On May 12-14, Homo Digitalis was in Belgrade to attend the annual General Assembly of European Digital Rights (EDRi), which was co-organized by the Share Foundation!
There we had the pleasure to be present at the elections that elected the new EDRi Board members, welcomed the new organizations that joined the network and discussed many important new actions and strategies in the field of digital rights protection!
Thank you very much for the unique hospitality and excellent organization!
Homo Digitalis was represented by our Board Secretary, Eleftherios Chelioudakis.
Our pro bono Educational Speech at Roche Hellas
On Thursday 11 May, Homo Digitalis had the pleasure of speaking to Roche Hellas staff about the “digital footprint” in the context of the Compliance Week organized by the company.
Such awareness raising initiatives are particularly important to raise the level of awareness about digital rights for all of us as citizens, internet users, consumers and employees.
We hope that other companies will follow the example of Roche Hellas! Thank you very much for the invitation, the participation and the interesting discussion.
Homo Digitalis was represented by its co-founders Konstantinos Kakavoulis and Stefanos Vitoratos.
We participate in an event of the ENA Institute for Alternative Policies at the Univeristy of Athens
Homo Digitalis participates in an event organised by the ENA Institute for Alternative Policies, Monday 15 May. The location of the event is the “Ioannis Drakopoulos” Amphitheatre at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA).
Konstantinos Kakavoulis will represent Homo Digitalis in a panel on “Digital Rights & Work” The other speakers are:
-Manolis Terrovitis, Principal Researcher at the Institute of Information Systems of Athena Research Centre
-Nikos Roussos, Software Engineer & member of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)\.
-Athina Karatzogianni, Professor of Communication, University of Leicester
-Anthonios Broumas, Lawyer, Independent Researcher
The commentary is provided by Iphigenia Douvitsa, Professor – Consultant at the Hellenic Open University, while Angeliki Mitropoulou, PhD Candidate at the University of the Aegean, Research Associate at ENA
More information here.
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority is investigating the Greek Coast Guard for its social media monitoring software following Homo Digitalis request
In February 2022, the organizations Homo Digitalis, Privacy International, Hellenic League for Human Rights, and HIAS Greece, together with researcher Phoebus Simeonidis, had submitted a request to the President of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HPA) for the Authority to exercise its investigative powers regarding the supply of social media monitoring software and messaging application by the Coast Guard (more here).
Now, the DPA has officially informed us that it has long since launched the relevant investigative actions, has collected evidence from the Coast Guard Headquarters and is examining it in order to complete its assessment.
We recall that, as it appears from the DIAYGEIA portal already from the summer of 2022 the companies “BYTE S.A. – GRIVAS S.A.” have probably undertaken the delivery of the relevant project.
This is of course another important success for Civil Society organizations in Greece!
We would like to thank the scientific staff of the Hellenic Civil Society Foundation, which despite the challenges it faces with its intense workload and reduced financial and human resources, manages to continue its difficult mission.
