Η Homo Digitalis στο "2ο νομικό φόρουμ για την προστασία των δεδομένων"

On Wednesday 15/2 the “2nd Law Forum on Data Protection” is taking place at the Divani Caravel Hotel, which Homo Digitalis is sponsoring.
Stefanos Vitoratos will be the moderator of the conference, which will be analyzed by speakers of renowned prestige interesting data protection issues, such as the everyday life of the DPO and the use of personal data to improve everyday life and fight crime!
For more information and registration visit the organisers’ website.

 


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.


The session we co-organized at the Privacy Camp for PREDATOR was successfully completed

Homo Digitalis had the pleasure of participating in the privacy camp organized by European Digital Rights in Brussels a few days ago.
Among the topics discussed were the preservation of electronic communications metadata, spyware, immigration and the use of new technologies and sex workers rights.
Of particular interest was the Workshop In spyware we trust. With new tools come new problems with speakers European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Wojciech Wiewiórowski, @EU_EDPS Rebecca White Campaigner – Disrupting Surveillance Team at Amnesty Tech, Bastien Le Querrec, member of La Quadrature Du Net, and Elisa Triantafillou, journalist of inside story, who presented how she and her team uncovered the use of predator software in Greece.

Our organisation was represented by Eleftherios Chelioudakis and Elpida Vamvaka.
Many congratulations to EDRi for organizing such timely and interesting discussions.


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.


Register for the session we are co-organizing at the Privacy Camp for the use of PREDATOR in Greece

Did you register?
On 25 January, Privacy Camp takes place in Brussels, one of the most important annual meetings in the field of digital rights organised by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), European Digital Rights – EDRi, VUB – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Privacy Salon and iee.

Together with EDRi we are co-organising a summit on the use of spyware, in which we are honoured to have as our guest the journalist Elise Triantafyllou from inside.story who was the leading reporter in the revelations about the use of Predator in Greece.

Register completely free of charge for attendance in person or online until 18/1 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.