{"id":136591,"date":"2026-07-27T18:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/posts\/136591\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T18:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T16:42:02","slug":"homo-digitalis-has-the-great-pleasure-of-participating-in-the-blog-post-series-of-the-interdisciplinary-migration-research-unit-imru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/posts\/136591\/","title":{"rendered":"Homo Digitalis has the great pleasure of participating in the Blog Post Series of the Interdisciplinary Migration Research Unit (IMRU)"},"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;200244&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;746&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;160342&#8243;]<br \/>\nHomo Digitalis and our Executive Director, Eleftherios Chelioudakis,\u00a0have the great pleasure of participating in the Blog Post Series of the Interdisciplinary Migration Research Unit (IMRU)!<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Frontex tried to procure an AI-powered tool to monitor social media and predict migration flows. Civil society scrutiny got it cancelled. 28 months later, the same surveillance vision resurfaced, this time through a Hellenic Coast Guard IT procurement, co-funded by EU security funds.<\/p>\n<p>Our article traces the full story: from the original Frontex tender, through the scrutiny and legal challenges that led to its cancellation, to how a nearly identical system was procured in Greece, and what it reveals about the growing entanglement of AI, social media, and border control. A case study in how surveillance initiatives blocked at the EU level can re-emerge through national procurement, even when co-financed with EU funds.<\/p>\n<p>Read the piece <a href=\"https:\/\/imru.ekke.gr\/index.php\/blogs\/beyond_the_border\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to IMRU and IMRU&#8217;s Founder and Coordinator, Angelo Tramountanis for the opportunity to collaborate!<br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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;200244&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;746&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;160342&#8243;] Homo Digitalis and our Executive Director, Eleftherios [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":136585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,67],"tags":[635,1139,1282,1283],"class_list":["post-136591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actions","category-press-releases","tag-frontex-en","tag-1139","tag-hellenic-coast-guard","tag-interdisciplinary-migration-research-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136591","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136591"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136602,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136591\/revisions\/136602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}