{"id":133067,"date":"2021-12-03T10:24:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T08:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/posts\/133067\/"},"modified":"2024-05-11T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T08:25:13","slug":"the-european-ombudsman-opens-an-investigation-following-our-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/posts\/133067\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Ombudsman opens an investigation following our complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;188705&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;746&#8243;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;blogtext&#8221; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;391541&#8243;]In October 2021, Privacy International together with Homo Digitalis, The Border Violence Monitoring Network, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and Sea-Watch submitted a complaint to the European Ombudsman, Ms Emily O&#8217;Reilly, calling on her to investigate programmes related to the provision of surveillance equipment and related expertise by the European Union to third countries.<\/p>\n<p>These practices can lead to significant risks for vulnerable groups, such as human rights activists, in third states, and our action sought to investigate whether due diligence and necessary human rights impact assessments were carried out by EU organisations before they formulated these &#8216;cooperation&#8217; programmes.<\/p>\n<p>It is a great honour and pleasure that the European Ombudsman has decided to investigate our case and shed light on these practices. You can see the relevant communication here.<\/p>\n<p>We recall that at the same time, we had also submitted an open letter to the European Data Protection Supervisor, Mr. Wojciech Wiewi\u00f3rowski, informing him of our actions![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 November, the European Ombudsman decided to launch investigations into a complaint lodged by Privacy International in cooperation with Homo Digitalis and other organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133069,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133067\/revisions\/133069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}