We submitted our report to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education regarding the use of AI in education

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Ms Farida Shaheed is preparing her upcoming report for the UN General Assembly in October 2024 on the promotion of the right to education based on artificial intelligence tools.

Homo Digitalis, after completing a tour of schools and conversations with teachers, students and parents, believes that the contribution of civil society with a practical look at this issue is important!

For this reason we have submitted our report before her on Monday 27 May. We would like to thank Anastasios and Viliy Karagiorgou and Lamprini Gyftokosta for their important contribution to the drafting and filing of this report!

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We spoke at an event hosted by KEPSIPI in the context of the Erasmus+ Digital Learning and Social Intervention programme

On Thursday 23rd of May we had the pleasure to participate in the event organized by KEPSIPI in the framework of the Erasmus+ Digital Learning and Social Intervention project and to talk about digital learning and the importance of personal data for social workers from Greece, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Romania and the challenges of using AI tools in the field of social intervention. We would like to thank Ms. Margarita Moraitou for the invitation and her efforts to highlight this issue both nationally and European-wide.

Our Director for AI and New Technologies, Lamprini Gyftokosta, spoke representing Homo Digitalis at the event.

You can learn more about the work and activities of the Centre for Mental and Pedagogical Health here.

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Homo Digitalis' participation in CPDP 2024 was a great success

For another year, and consistently since 2019, Homo Digitalis was present at the internationally renowned Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels!

We are honored that the organizers chose us to participate in the conference podcast series, with our Director for AI & Human Rights, Lamprini Gyftokosta, analyzing our pending cases before the Data Protection Authority in Greece, and our significant successes so far!

Also, another very nice moments of ours at the event, is EDRi’s award from the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) “AI Policy Leader in Civil Society” regarding our joint campaign ReclaimYourFace, of which Homo Digitalis is a co-founding member!

Of course, it is always unique for us to see our members actively participating in the conference and have a dynamic presence in discussions, panels and other events both with their Homo Digitalis hat and that of their professional capacity Thank you very much for proudly representing Homo Digitalis at this conference every year!!!

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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.

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες για το προφίλ του

Ο Λευτέρης είναι δικηγόρος με βαθιά εξειδίκευση στις νέες τεχνολογίες. Για περισσότερα από 8 έτη, παρέχει την καθοδήγησή του σε ερευνητικά προγράμματα και νομικές υποθέσεις που αφορούν την προστασία δεδομένων προσωπικού χαρακτήρα, την προστασία της ιδιωτικής ζωής, ζητήματα διανοητικής ιδιοκτησίας (πνευματική ιδιοκτησία, σήματα και βιομηχανική ιδιοκτησία), το ηλεκτρονικό εμπόριο και την κυβερνοασφάλεια.  Με διπλό ακαδημαϊκό υπόβαθρο στη νομική επιστήμη και στην επιστήμη των ηλεκτρονικών υπολογιστών, ο Λευτέρης διαθέτει διεπιστημονικές γνώσεις και πρακτική εξειδίκευση για την επιτυχή διαχείριση σύνθετων προκλήσεων, καθώς έχει εργαστεί για διεθνείς δικηγορικές εταιρίες, ακαδημαϊκά ιδρύματα του εξωτερικού, ιδιωτικές εταιρίες, οργανώσεις της κοινωνίας των πολιτών, οργανισμούς της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, και διεθνείς οργανισμούς.

Ακαδημαϊκό υπόβαθρο

  • Advanced MSc in Digital Humanities, Σχολή Η/Υ KU Leuven (Cum Laude), 2019
  • LL.M in Law & Technology, Νομική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου του Tilburg (Απόφοιτος της χρονιάς με την υψηλότερη βαθμολογία – Cum Laude), 2017,
  • LL.B, Νομική Σχολή του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών (Λίαν Καλώς), 2014,
  • Νομική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου Χάρβαρντ, CopyrightX, 2018,
  • Ευρωπαϊκό Πανεπιστημιακό Ινστιτούτο και Νομική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου του Πίτσμπουργκ, Θερινό Σχολείο: Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη και Δίκαιο, 2019
  • Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Θερινό Σχολείο Advanced Courses on AI (ACAI), AI for Multi-Agent Worlds, Με υποτροφία της European Association of AI (EurAI), 2019,
  • University of Ferrara, Θερινό Σχολείο Advanced Courses on AI (ACAI), Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence (StarAI). 2018.

Γλώσσες

  • Ελληνικά και Αγγλικά

Συμμετοχή σε Επαγγελματικούς & Επιστημονικούς Συλλόγους

  • Μέλος του Δικηγορικού Συλλόγου Πειραιά (Δικηγόρος παρ’ Εφέταις),
  • Μέλος-Παρατηρητής της Επιτροπής του Συμβουλίου της Ευρώπης για την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη (CAI), εκπροσωπώντας τη Homo Digitalis,
  • Μέλος στο AI for Sustainable Development Goals (AI4SDGs) Think Tank του Center for Long-term Artificial Intelligence (CLAI),
  • Μέλος και Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) στη International Association of Privacy Professionals (ΙAPP), με πιστοποιήσεις: Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe (CIPP/E), Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), και Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT),
  • Μέλος της International Association for Artificial Intelligence & Law,
  • Μέλος της Δεξαμενής Ειδικών των Ευρωπαϊκού Συμβουλίου Προστασίας Δεδομένων,
  • Μέλος του Δικτύου Ειδικών Προστασίας Δεδομένων (EDEN) της Europol,
  • Μέλος του Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) του Ευρωπαίου Επόπτη Προστασίας Δεδομένων,
  • Μέλος του Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, and the Digital Welfare State Community of Practice του Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice στο New York University School of Law, εκπροσωπώντας τη Homo Digitalis,
  • Μέλος του Advisory Board του Jean Monnet Chair in Mediterranean Digital Societies and Law στο Polytechnic University of Turin, εκπροσωπώντας τη Homo Digitalis,
  • Μέλος του Scientific Network-International Observatory on Vulnerable People in Data Protection (VULNERA) του Vrije Universiteit Brussel & του Future of Privacy Forum, εκπροσωπώντας τη Homo Digitalis,
  • Μέλος του Justice, Equity and Technology (JET) Table του London School of Economics and Political Science, εκπροσωπώντας τη Homo Digitalis,
  • Μέλος του External Advisory Board του Ερευνητικού Προγράμματος Horizon Europe EITHOS (European Identity Theft Observatory System),
  • Μέλος της Ομάδας Εργασίας του Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) για την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη & Κυβερνοασφάλεια (λήξη εργασιών 2020),
  • Μέλος του External Advisory Board του Ερευνητικού Προγράμματος Horizon 2020 PopAI A European Positive Sum Approach towards AI tools in support of Law Enforcement and safeguarding privacy and fundamental rights (λήξη εργασιών 2023).

Δημοσιεύσεις

Ομιλίες σε Συνέδρια (ενδεικτικά)

  • InfoLaw, 2024, ΑΙ: Από τη θεωρία στην Πράξη … για την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη,
  • 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?

 

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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.

 

 

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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