Homo Digitalis presentation in the M.Sc. Program "Digital Communications Media and Interaction Environments"
On January, 27 Stefanos Vitoratos, Homo Digitalis vice-president was invited to the course “E-governance and Digital Public Participation” of the M.Sc. program of the Faculty of Communications and Media of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Mr. Vitoratos spoke about human rights in the contemporary digital age and the interaction between the various human rights.
His presentation was very interactive and the participation of students was huge.
We warmly thank the lecturers Mr. Dimitris Gkouskos and Ms. Eleni-Reveka Staiou for their invitation.
Happy Data Protection Day!
The Homo Digitalis team in Heraklio, Crete created a video in the context of January 28, the “European Data Protection Day”
The following Homo Digitalis members take part in the video:
Elpida Vamvaka, Manos Papadakis, Vyron Kavalinis, Konstantinos Liandrogiannakis, Kyriaki Syntichaki, Panagiotis Arapoglou, Katerina Kourzi, Eleftheria Vamvaka, Maria Vouisdaki, Giorgos Drakonakis, Konstantinos Spinthakis, Giorgos Maselis, Alexandra Karapidaki, Ioanna Spanaki.
We thank Comeet Creative Space and Groove Studio for the support.
The video is available here.
Opinion of the Greek DPA on the Greek Data Protection Law
Today, January, 27, the Greek Data Protection Authority issued a very judgmental opinion on the provisions of the Greek Data Protection Law.
The Greek Law 4624/2019 implements provisions of the GDPR, while incorporating Directive 2016/680.
In September 2019, one month after the adoption of the law, Homo Digitalis had filed a petition to the Data Protection Authority together with the Consumers’ Union EKPOIZO, requesting the issue of such an Opinion.
The DPA’s Opinion is very thorough and underlines many important issues arising from the Law 4624/2019. We note that many of the articles, in which the Opinion refers to, were at the centre of our second complaint to the European Commission for non-compliance of the Greek Law with the European legislation. (Complaint no. CHAP(2019)03059).
The DPA notes that it shall not implement any of the provisions of Law 4624/2019, which are contrary to the GDPR.
The full Opinion in Greek is available here.