Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits a high school in Tyros Arkadia
Last week Homo Digitalis hit the road!
In a 1500 km tour, we visited 4 schools in the Peloponnese and Central Greece and talked to more than 600 students and teachers!
On the second day, Lamprini Gyftokosta, Nikoletta Georgakopoulou and Konstantinos Kakavoulis were in Tyros Arkadia and talked to all the students and teachers of the high school about the #digitalfootprint
We would like to thank the school’s management and teachers for the invitation and the warm welcome!
Speech by Homo Digitalis at an online event of Project Parenting
If you’re nervous about…
-Whether screens are addictive.
-How to manage screen time for your kids.
-How screens affect children’s relationship with food.
-The effect of exposure to screens.
And much more…
All you have to do is #Register for the “Are Screens Bad After All?” conference. organized on 26 & 27 February by Project Parenting, the 1st educational platform for parents in Greece!
Konstantinos Kakavoulis Lawyer and co-founder of Homo Digitalis will represent us there to inform parents with his successful presentation “Digital Footprint: What it is, who can detect it and what they can do with it”. We would like to thank the organizers for their kind invitation!
You can attend it #completely #FREE #online on 26 & 27 February! Registration.
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits Anthoussa High School
Homo Digitalis continues its educational actions in schools!
Yesterday, Konstantinos Kakavoulis and Lambrini Gyftokosta were at Anthousas High School, where they spoke with the students of the 3rd grade about the Digital Footprint.
We would like to thank the students and teachers for the invitation and the excellent participation!
Our joint research on children's safety and privacy online just published
YouGov, Humankind Research and Homo Digitalis conducted a survey on online safety and privacy for children in Greece, which shows high levels of concern among adults and young people.
-What percentage of Greeks are concerned about children’s online privacy?
-Do they believe that children have little control over how their data is collected and used?
-Who do Greeks believe is primarily responsible for protecting children online?
The survey also highlights the critical need to invest in raising awareness among Greek citizens, both adults and non-adults, on issues of privacy, protection and safety online.
You can find the survey and learn more about its results:
We submitted a joint letter with noyb.eu to the European Data Protection Board for its opinion in the Meta case
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) will soon issue its most important opinion to date: it will determine whether we still have a realistic option to protect our right to privacy online!
In November 2023, Meta adopted the “Pay or Okay” approach. Since then, users are forced to either pay a “privacy fee” of €251.88 per year or agree to be monitored. The supervisory authorities of the Netherlands, Norway and Hamburg have therefore requested a binding opinion from the EDPB on this issue.
If “Pay or Okay” is legalised, companies in all industry sectors could follow Meta’s lead – which could mean the end of real consent in the use of our data.
Homo Digitalis has now joined forces with 27 other civil society organisations including noyb.eu, Wikimedia Europe, Bits of Freedom and Forbrukerrådet/Norwegian Consumer Council to urge the EDPB to issue an opinion that protects our fundamental right to data protection!
You can read our joint letter here.
Homo Digitalis speaks about the Safer Internet Day 2024 at Pyrgettos Gymnasium and Lyceum
Part A’
Today is Safer Internet Day and Homo Digitalis was once again in many different schools in Greece, completely voluntarily, to talk to students and teachers about our digital rights with the presentations “digital footprint” and “cyberbullying”.
Homo Digitalis and our member Anastasios Arabatzis visited Pyrgettos High School and Lyceum and we were surprised by the active participation and interest of the public in our activities.
Homo Digitalis talks about Safer Internet Day 2024 at the Hellenic American Educational Foundation Athens College - Psychico College Primary School.
Part B’
Today is Safer Internet Day and Homo Digitalis was once again in many different schools in Greece, completely voluntarily, to talk to students and teachers about our digital rights with the presentations “digital footprint” and “cyberbullying”.
Homo Digitalis and our members Kostas Kakavoulis, Lamprini Gyftokosta, Nikoleta Georgakopoulou and Ariana Rapti visited the elementary school of the Hellenic American Educational Foundation Athens College – Psychico College.
Our participation in the Privacy Camp in Brussels for another year
Last week we attended the Privacy Camp in Brussels, one of the most important annual meetings in the field of digital rights internationally, organized by European Digital Rights in collaboration with the Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Privacy Salon, Institute for European Studies, ULB (IEE-ULB), Institute for Information Law (IViR) at UvA and the Racism and Technology Center!
There we had the pleasure to meet with EDRi network organisations and other civil society representatives, European institutions, academic institutions and other partners!
Homo Digitalis was represented at the meeting by our President, Elpida Vamvaka, and there we met with many of our members who participated in the meeting, including Alexandra Giannopoulou and Emilia Givropoulou.
Pro bono Educational Presentation at the Karavanas School in Larissa
Homo Digitalis continues its informative talks in schools pro bono!
Yesterday Anastasios Arampatzis spoke at the Karavanas School in Larissa on the topic of Digital Footprint. The speech was attended by 60 high school students.
We would like to thank the Director of the High School, Mrs. Lena Papakostouli, as well as Mrs. Zoe Goundela, the school’s IT teacher, who presented with us.
It was an excellent experience, with the active participation of the students, who deserve a big thumbs up!