We are celebrating Data Protection Day by releasing our Annual Report
Today is January 28th, Global Data Protection Day! At Homo Digitalis, we are working hard to give real meaning to this day, ensuring it is not just another day of well-wishes.
Therefore, today, one year after our last celebration, we are releasing our Annual Report for 2024, which includes all of our successes and significant actions in the areas of awareness-raising, co-shaping policy decisions, and strategic legal interventions in the context of protecting our digital rights!
Additionally, this year we have the honor of having the President of the National Commission for Bioethics & Technoethics, Mr. Charalambos Tsekis, introduce our annual report, offering his thoughts on 2025 and the challenges and opportunities arising from the use of Artificial Intelligence, with an eye to the future.
Finally, continuing to set high standards in the area of transparency, our annual report also includes our financial statement, just as in our past deliverables.
A big thank you to the Board of Directors, our employees, our network of volunteers, our partners, and our donors for all that we have been able to achieve!
Let’s therefore honor another Data Protection Day not only with celebrations but also with a critical approach to technological solutions, key interventions, and hard work!
You can read our Annual Report here (in EL).
We published our successful Report for the five-year period 2018-2023
In 2018, we started with 6 founding members, 25 volunteers and 1,000 euros in the organization’s account. Nobody knew us, but we knew what we wanted to achieve, what gap we were trying to fill, where we wanted to go.Today, we celebrate our 6 years of operation and publish our 5-year report, about everything we have achieved in the period 2018 -2023. The detailed Report contains the beginning of our story, information about the mission, vision and values of Homo Digitalis, and a thorough review of all our major successes by pillar of action, namely a) Awareness, b) Advocay , and c) Legal Actions and Interventions. Finally, in order to enhance transparency about our financial accounts, we have also included all of our Financial Reports for the entire five years period!
You can read our Homo Digitalis’ “Five Year Report 2018-2023” in Greek here or in English here. The report was curated by our Director on Human Rights and AI, Lambrini Gyftokosta.
Looking back we are happy, proud and excited, because until the summer of 2023, we: gained over 130 volunteers, have steadily increased our revenue by 353% every year, filed over 20 complaints with Greek and European authorities, managed to fine Clearview AI €20 million (the largest in Greece), visited more than 30 schools and raised awareness with our actions for more than 3500 students and citizens, gave more than 40 media interviews in Greece and Europe, supported more than 50 joint actions with other Greek and European organisations in the field of digital rights, acquired more than 10.000 followers on social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X), published more than 150 articles of scientific, technical and legal interest on our website with the contribution of our volunteers, became the first and only organisation from Greece to be a member of EDRi, the European Digital Rights Network; and although we started as a purely voluntary organisation, we managed to hire our first employee!
On this journey we were not alone. One of our greatest successes is our collaboration with a large network of universities, organisations, institutions, research centres and all our member volunteers who helped us take our actions one step further!
Looking ahead we are optimistic. We are moving forward dynamically, conquering small and big goals that will bring us even closer to the world we dream of and want to build together!