Homo Digitalis celebrates Safer Internet Day with students in Heraklion, Crete
Part A’
Today is Safer Internet Day and Homo Digitalis celebrated it with students all over Greece
Elpida Vamvaka and Eleftheria Vamvaka spoke with 4th and 6th grade students of the Zanneio Education Centre in Heraklion, Crete.
There were discussions about our digital selves, cyber bullying and the protection of digital rights and personal data.
Videos of the #SuperCyberKids series, created in collaboration with the (ISC)2 Hellenic Chapter and ICSI Hellas, were shown, while during the breaks cookies were distributed to the students of Zanneio, in order to inform them about the use of cookies on the internet.
We would like to thank the School Managements and all the teachers for their welcome and hospitality.
Homo Digitalis celebrates Safer Internet Day with students in Larissa
Part B’
Today is Safer Internet Day and Homo Digitalis celebrated it with students all over Greece
Vassilis Vassilopoulos and Tasos Arampatzis spoke with students of the 5th and 6th grades of primary school and all the students of the Karavanas School of Gymnasium in Larissa.
There were discussions about our digital self, cyber bullying and the protection of digital rights and personal data.
Videos of the #SuperCyberKids series, created in collaboration with the (ISC)2 Hellenic Chapter and ICSI Hellas, were shown to inform them about the use of cookies on the internet.
We would like to thank the School Managements and all the teachers and lecturers for their welcome and hospitality.
Participation of Homo Digitalis in the conference "2nd IN-HOUSE LAWYERS FORUM"
Tomorrow, Tuesday 17/1, the conference “2nd IN-HOUSE LAWYERS FORUM” will be held at the Divani Caravel Hotel, in which Homo Digitalis provides sponsorship.
Elpida Vamvaka and Stefanos Vitoratos are participating as speakers analyzing key issues such as the lifting of privacy, metadata of electronic documents and the protection of personal data.
and access to them by police authorities, but also the necessary skills that an in-house lawyer must have today!
Register here.
Come and meet us at the CAPrice community event in Heraklion
Tomorrow, those of you who are in Heraklion will be able to attend the interesting discussion with our member and DPO of FORTH, Anthi Stratakis and Yannis Chrysakis, who will talk to us about the CAPrice community for a secure digital privacy.
Homo Digitalis is a partner of Caprice – Community for privacy concerns and expectations and supports its actions.
-Wednesday, 11/1/2023, at 19.00, at H2B HUB Koronaiou 14, Heraklion (3rd floor).
-Register here.
We spoke to the newspaper Kathimerini about the leak of emails on Twitter
Today in KATHIMERINI – Official Page we host statements by Stergios Konstantinou, member of Homo Digitalis, about the leak of e-mails of more than 235 million Twitter users.
-What consequences can the leak have for users?
-Read the full article here.
Thanks to journalist Ioannis Papadopoulos for reporting.
Homo Digitalis participates in Turin in a meeting of the Advisory Committee of Professor Alessandro Mantelero, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in Mediterranean Digital Societies and Law.
On 12-13 December Homo Digitalis had the great honour and pleasure to be at the Politecnico di Torino, invited by Professor Alessandro Mantelero, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in Mediterranean Digital Societies and Law.
On the first day we attended a workshop attended by the Presidents of the Data Protection Authorities of Tunisia and Morocco, representatives of the Italian and Catalan Data Protection Authorities, leading academics from Italy, Greece, Malta and Spain and representatives of national and international civil society organisations.
On the second day we presented our work regarding the development and use of interventional AI technologies in Greece.
It is a great honor for Homo Digitalis to be a member of the Advisory Committee in this project, and we would like to thank Professor Alessandro Mantelero and Lecturer Maria Samantha Esposito for the kind invitation and the excellent collaboration! Our team was represented by the Secretary of the Board Eleftherios Chelioudakis.
You can learn more about the event here.
Throwback to the successful Members in the Spotlight Workshop at the National Library of Greece
Throwback to The Glassroom: Misinformation Edition exhibition that we brought for the first time in Greece with Digital Detox Experience and Open Lab Athens!
Those who visited the exhibition on Monday 21/11 also attended the Members in the Spotlight event with interesting talks by Homo Digitalis members on topical issues such as DSA/DMA implementation, gambling in the Metaverse, international data transfers, and e-health implications today.
Many thanks to Vassilis Vassilopoulos for coordinating and the rest of the members for their excellent presentations: Maria – Alexandra Papoutsi, Christos Zanganas, Alkmini Gianni, and Nikos Papadopoulos.
We participated in a discussion-speech after the performance of the Andromeda Theatre Group "It's Not a Game"
We actively support the Andromeda Theatre Group, which this year is staging its performance “It’s Not a Game”. The 4 extraordinary protagonists confess stories in which they have been victims or perpetrators via the internet. The topics they deal with are online blackmail, sextortion, revenge porn, bullying, scams and internet addiction.
In the context of the performance, open discussions with the audience, lasting one hour, were organized on 7 and 14 December at the nus theatre, in which Apollonia Ioannidou, a lawyer specializing in Law and Technology, and Katerina Mezini, a lawyer with a Master’s degree in Law and Information Technologies, participated from our team. Thank you to our two members for representing us in this important discussion!
The next discussion with the participation of important stakeholders will take place on 21/12!
We spoke to Inside.story as part of the article "On the internet no one knows you're a dog"
Is there a way to protect ourselves on the internet without compromising our privacy?
Members of HomoDigitalis spoke to inside story. and journalist Rafaella Maneli about an issue that concerns us every day.
-Kostas Kakavoulis “The internet started out as completely free, but that era has now passed. Today we do in it what we do in analogue life. In fact on the internet we are more exposed than in the real world. Therefore, human activity in it cannot remain unregulated.”
-Alexandra Giannopoulou: “Since Snowden’s time we still know that the relationship between security and privacy is not orthogonal. Similarly, neither is the relationship between child protection and privacy.”
-Giannis Krontiris: “SSI (Self-Sovereign Identity) technology can provide the appropriate framework for the identification and verification of digital identities, focusing on the user, who becomes the sovereign of his or her data.”
For more statements from Homo Digitalis members you can read the article here.