Elpida Vamvaka of Homo Digitalis at the Multistakeholder Committee of the Digital World Summit Greece
Elpida Vamvaka of Homo Digitalis is a member of the Multistakeholder Committee of Digital World Summit Greece as an expert in cybersecurity and privacy.
Elpida Vamvaka is a Lawyer, co-founding member and President of Homo Digitalis, to which she volunteers her services, while she is currently working as Head Legal Counsel at Team Blue Greece, Papaki/Tophost which are two of the largest technology companies and Digital Enablers in Greece.
She has led data protection compliance projects in Public and Private Entities. In addition, he has been employed as a legal advisor to the Athena Research Centre in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies.
Our new action before the European Data Protection Board on its case regardin Meta's Pay Or Okay model
Last Thursday, 7 March, together with European Digital Rights and other important civil society organisations, we submitted an Open Letter to the European Data Protection Board (EDPS) on Meta’s #PayOrOkay model.
We call on the EDPS in its opinion to condemn these commercial subscription models that allow those with the money to pay for their privacy and those without to be at the mercy of the voracious data collection practices of big tech companies.
You can read our letter in detail here. This is Homo Digitalis’ second relevant action against Meta’s Pay or Okay model on a pan-European level.
Our joint action on the Digital Euro & Right to Cash legislative initiatives
At the end of February, together with epicenter.works, European Digital Rights and other important civil society organisations, we sent a letter to the MEPs who are the rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs of the DigitalEuro and Right To Cash packages.
Despite the fact that both proposed pieces of legislation are part of the same legislative package, we see that the relevant negotiations are moving at two different speeds!
With the European elections approaching and uncertainty prevailing regarding the proposed legislation on the Digital Euro and the challenges that arise with its technical features, we call on MEPs to separate these two legislative proposals in order to spend the necessary time to solve the problems that have been identified and highlighted by academics, and other experts in the field.
You can view our joint letter here.
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits the 3rd Primary School of Nafpaktos
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 fourth day, Lamprini Gyftokosta, Alexandra Giannopoulou and Konstantinos Kakavoulis were in Nafpaktos and talked to the students and teachers of the 3rd Primary School of Nafpaktos about cyber bullying
We would like to thank the management and the teachers of the school for the invitation and the warm welcome!
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits a high school in Velo, Corinthia
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 third day, Lamprini Gyftokosta and Konstantinos Kakavoulis were in Velo Corinthia and talked to all the students and teachers of the high school about the digital footprint
We would like to thank the management and teachers of the school for the invitation and the warm welcome!
Voluntary educational actions in schools: Homo Digitalis visits the high school in Molai in Laconia
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 first day, Lamprini Gyftokosta, Nikoletta Georgakopoulou and Konstantinos Kakavoulis were in Molaos Lakonia and talked to all the students and teachers of the high school about the digital footprint.
We would like to thank the management and teachers of the school for the invitation and the warm welcome!
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!
Homo Digitalis on the European AI & Society Fund's list of AI experts
The European AI & Society Fund has published on its website a Register of Experts on issues related to the fields of Human Rights and AI, from its partner organisations.
We are honored and delighted that Homo Digitalis is in this registry with dual representation from our Director of Human Rights & AI, Lambrini Gftokosta and our Board Secretary, Lefteris Chelioudakis
You can see in detail the members of the register and the variety of topics in which they specialize here.
Many thanks to the European AI & Society Fund for the opportunity to promote Homo Digitalis' expertise and knowledge internationally!
Homo Digitalis talks to the newspaper Kathimerini about the body-worn cameras of the Hellenic Police and our related actions
The upgrade of the Police surveillance equipment is expected to be completed in the near future, as the tender for the supply of cameras has ended.
These are about 400 24-hour cameras to be installed on patrol cars, as well as 2,000 “wearable” cameras, i.e. integrated into the uniforms of police officers, which will be able to record at will and transmit live images to the operations centre using telecommunications networks.
Homo Digitalis spoke to Kathimerini and journalist Elvira Krithari about our actions together with Reporters United & The Press Project regarding the use of cameras from 2020 & 2021 and the investigation conducted by the Data Protection Authority since then. Our team was represented by Eleftherios Chelioudakis
We would like to thank the journalist for her interest in our actions! You can read her article here.
More about our relevant actions from 2020 & 2021, here.