Letter by Homo Digitalis to the Greek Parliament, suggesting an amendment to the draft law on Personal Data Protection, implementing the EU Regulation 2016/679 and transposing EU Directive 2016/680

On 24 April 2018, Homo Digitalis addressed all the Members of the Greek Parliament through a letter. Homo Digitalis proposed to the Members of the Parliament to promote the adoption of a provision in Article 67 of the Draft Law on the Protection of Personal Data, which would state the following:

“Non-Governmental institutions, organizations, lawfully established unions, the constitutional objects of which include the protection of rights and freedoms of the data subjects in relation to the protection of personal data shall have the right, regardless of the assignment by the data subject, to request judicial remedy from the data controller or the processor”.

This proposal complies fully with the provisions of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 80, paragraph 1.

The letter was also communicated to the Greek Personal Data Protection Authority and the Greek Authority for the Confidentiality of Communications.

The first Non-Governmental Organization in Greece with the scope of protecting human rights in the digital age, Homo Digitalis, was established. Co-founders to it are six young lawyers with a broad expertise and passion for offering to society.

The aim of Homo Digitalis is to inform the Greek citizens on the right use of the Internet, the protection of their fundamental rights, but also to support them in cases of violations. Through its actions, Homo Digitalis hopes to challenge the citizen’s conscience regarding their digital rights and become a benchmark organization for the protection of digital rights in Greece.

Two of the first actions of Homo Digitalis in this context are:

– the submission of its Report on the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the “Right to Privacy in the Digital Age”

– an open letter to the Greek Parliament, suggesting an amendment to the draft law on the protection of personal data, implementing EU Regulation 2016/679 and transposing EU Directive 2016/680.

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