Our participation in the launching event of the TechTalk Podcast of Sociality and Open Lab Athens
We have a proposal for your Wednesday afternoon!
#TechTalk , a podcast* about technology is here! And we invite you to check it out before the episodes start!
On Wednesday 29/11 at 18:00 at red n’ noir (53 Drosopoulou Street, Kypseli) we are waiting for you to discuss “what is technology” really? Is our flush toilet technology? What is the difference between it and our mobile phone? How does it affect our lives?
Event Programme:
– Project Presentation | Antonis Faras, Sociality
– Presentation of Participatory Lab Results | Giannis Zgeras, Vily Mylona, Ph.D., Gregory Tsardanidis, Open Lab Athens
– Open discussion: “What is Technology” with Elpida Vamvaka, President of Homo Digitalis and Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Professor, Newcastle University, !Open Lab – Newcastle University & Open Lab Athens .
Coordinated by Koutiva Nadiana, Sociality
*TechTalk is a project of Sociality in collaboration with Open Lab Athens and with the support of Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Greece
We participated in the DFF's Berlin event on the use of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in our legal actions
Last week we participated in the workshop organised by DFF in Berlin focusing on the importance of using the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in our legal actions!
DFF launched the digiRISE project to raise awareness of the potential of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in defending and protecting digital rights.
The workshop was attended by Privacy International, Access Now, Share Foundation and many other civil society organisations.
Homo Digitalis was represented by Elpida Vamvaka, President of the Board of Homo Digitalis.
Many congratulations to the DFF team for the organization!
We met with the Ministry of Digital Governance for the DSA and the AI Act
Today, Lambrini Gyftokosta and Konstantinos Kakavoulis represented Homo Digitalis in a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Digital Governance.
The topic of discussion was the progress of the implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in Greece, as well as the developments at EU level regarding the regulation of AI.
We would like to thank the representatives of the Ministry for the very fruitful dialogue! We continue to follow the developments and actively participate in their co-shaping.
Our joint campaign for Cybersecurity Month with the Share Foundation has been launched
Together with the Share Foundation and other civil society organisations, we are participating in a joint campaign for European Cyber Security Month!
Through puzzles, we are clarifying some key terms and tools related to our safe and private online browsing!
If you want to participate, you can follow Homo Digitalis on our social media (X, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram) to solve the puzzles and get informed yourself!
Homo Digitalis in Brussels for meetings with MEPs on CSAM
Last week Homo Digitalis travelled to Brussels!
There we participated in awareness raising activities with European Digital Rights regarding the proposed regulation on preventing and combating child sexual abuse (#CSAR) and met with Greek and Cypriot MEPs and their groups in the European Parliament to discuss it!
We would like to thank our members Angelina Barla, Charalambos Daftsios, Haris Kiritsis, George Sarris and Nikoleta Georgakopoulou for their excellent representation!!!
You can read more about our visit to Brussels here.
We published a joint study with EDRi on age verification online
Age verification is the process of predicting or confirming a person’s age online. Increasingly we hear from governments and technology companies that age verification is a tool we should use to ensure the safety of children online.
For example, in the EU, the draft regulation establishing rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse (CSAR) proposes to enforce age verification forms for private messaging services (e.g. WhatsApp, Signal) and app stores operating in the EU, as well as to provide strong incentives to use this tool on all other digital platforms and services, such as social media.
The European Digital Rights network, including Homo Digitalis, has prepared a relevant study with a rich analysis of more than 30 pages, freely available here.
It is important to ensure that our children have access to age-appropriate online content. However, quick technological ‘fixes’ such as age verification online will not make a difference or really solve the complex problems we face. On the contrary, the adoption of age verification systems can have serious human rights implications, especially for the children they are intended to protect.
Homo Digitalis participates in a New York University meeting on Artificial Intelligence
Last week, Homo Digitalis was invited to participate in the strategic meeting “Co-creating a shared human-rights agenda for AI regulation and the digital welfare state”, organized by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University Law School and Amnesty Tech’s Algorithmic Accountability Lab!
It is always a great honor to see our work to promote and protect human rights recognized internationally, and we thoroughly enjoyed sharing ideas, expertise and knowledge with an amazing group of academics, civil society organizations and other stakeholders around the world.
⚡ Our group was represented at the Strategy Session by Board Secretary Eleftherios Chelioudakis. Stay tuned for more exciting partnerships!
We call on European legislators to ensure full consistency with the principles of the rule of law in the AI ACT
We continue the actions of co-shaping political decisions at European level for the proposed European regulation on Artificial Intelligence (AIAct)!
Together with the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting, European Civic Forum and 60 other CSOs, we call on EU-level legislators to ensure that the proposed provisions are fully consistent with the principles of the rule of law, including transparency, accountability and access to justice. You can read our joint letter here.
Action is also coming at national level!
We demand an end to the use of mass biometric surveillance technologies by law enforcement authorities in public places
Today, 120 civil society organisations and 60 academics, scientists and other experts on new technologies are joining forces to stop the use of mass biometric surveillance technologies by law enforcement authorities in public places.
It is a great honour for Homo Digitalis to be part of this initiative. Already since 2020 with European Digital Rights we have been involved in the #ReclaimYourFace campaign, in which more than 250,000 people across the EU signed our petition to ban these practices.
You can read the joint statement here.