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 to speak at two important events
Homo Digitalis made a lightning trip to Brussels this week!
There we attended the annual plenary meeting of the Justice, Equity & Technology (JET) Table at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), which we have been members of for more than 2.5 years now, studying the implications of using technologies to defend specific social groups based on class and race.
We also successfully participated for another year in FreedomNotFear, where we had the great pleasure to organise a talk regarding the use of intrusive technologies in the field of border protection and our related legal actions for 2019-2023.
For Homo Digitalis, our Board Secretary, Eleftherios Chelioudakis, travelled from Greece to Brussels
Homo Digitalis talks to Athens 9.84
Margarita Mytilineou is one of the most acclaimed radio producers of the last decades.
Tomorrow morning, she welcomes Lambrini Gyftokosta, Director of Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights at Homo Digitalis, for a discussion on the topic “Can our mobile phone finally listen to us?”
Tune in to learn more about the ads we see every day everywhere on the Internet.
-Why are they different for each of us?
-How much does it affect us?
-How much is it legal?
Homo Digitalis talks to Inside.Story about the microphone of our mobile phone
Can the mobile phone finally hear us?
Many people believe that the mobile phone microphone is recording us without our knowledge, for advertising purposes. So is this a conspiracy theory or reality?
To inside story. and journalist Rafaela Maneli today published an article analyzing the relevant issues, with the participation of Homo Digitalis’ Director for Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights issues, Lamprini Gyftokosta, in it. You can read the article here.
Thank you very much for the interview and the interest in our actions!
Homo Digitalis participates again in an event of the Greek KnowledgeNet Chapter of IAPP
Next Thursday, 13/7, at 19:00, Homo Digitalis will have the great pleasure and honor to be present at the event of the Greek KnowledgeNet Chapter of the IAPP – International Association of Privacy Professionals on “Managing the rights of data subjects”.
There we will be represented by our new Director in Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights issues, Lambrini Gyftokosta, in a panel in which Ms. Kalli Karveli, Legal Auditor, at the Data Protection Authority and Mr. Evangelos Katsaras Senior Associate, ALG MANOUSAKIS LAW FIRM will participate.
We would like to thank the organizers for the invitation and the interest in our actions! You can find out more about the venue of the event on its official page here.
Now you can watch our talk at CPDP2023
Would you like to watch what Homo Digitalis said at the CPDP Conferences 2023, but you were not there??
No problem! The presentation of Stergios Konstantinou, who represented us, is freely available!
You can watch it here.
Action24's documentary on Artificial Intelligence in which Homo Digitalis participates has been published
What are the challenges of using AI applications?
Why is a clear legal framework regulating AI necessary?
What does the draft EU Regulation provide for?
The answers in Action24’s documentary #ActionStory, in which Konstantinos Kakavoulis participated representing Homo Digitalis.
You can watch it in full here.
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.
We spoke on Ant1's Main Newscast
Stefanos Vitoratos, representing Homo Digitalis, participated in a report for the main newscast of ANT1 regarding the recent DDoS attack against the Subject Bank of the Institute of Educational Policy.
“Cyber attacks should be considered part of everyday life as we invest in the digital transformation of the state. This attack was simply a wake-up call on the need to protect critical infrastructure,” the release said, among other things.
You can view the relevant excerpt here. We thank ANT1 for including and reporting on our actions.