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20 Jul

Comments to the Greek Draft Telecommunications Code

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Homo Digitalis and Sarantaporo.gr jointly filed comments to the Draft Greek Telecommunications Code, which was available for public consultation

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04 Jul

Homo Digitalis becomes an observer member at CAHAI

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Our organization is proud to have become observer member to the CAHAI - Ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence of the Council of Europe

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29 Jun

Homo Digitalis complaint to the European Commission: An update

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On June 26, the European Commission notified us on the course of our complaint regarding the implementation of the GDPR and the LED in the Greek legal order

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28 Jun

New article by Homo Digitalis at the EDRi-gram

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Eleftherios Chelioudakis and Antigoni Logotheti wrote an article for Homo Digitalis on the use of drones by the Greek Police during the Easter period for the prevention of COVID-19

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12 Jun

Ηοmo Digitalis in the first online webinar by EADPP Greece

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Mr. Konstantinos Kakavoulis will represent Homo Digitalis in the first online webinar by EADPP (European Association of Data Protection Professionals) Greece branch on June, 17

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21 May

Deploying DP3T in the real world – how ready are we?

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Our member Dr. Ioannis Krontiris interviewed Dr. Apostolos Pyrgelis, Post-Doctoral researcher in EPFL and member of the DP3T team, and asked him insightful questions about the DP3T protocol, focusing mainly on how close we are to real-life.

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05 Apr

100+ organizations in a joint statement for COVID-19

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

More than 100 civil society organizations, including Homo Digitalis, signed a joint statement for privacy issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic

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27 Mar

Joint Letter to the Council of the EU on TERREG

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On March 27, EDRi and many more organizations, including Homo Digitalis, sent a joint letter to the Council of the EU on the suggested TERREG text

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19 Mar

Request for the Greek DPA’s opinion on the Greek Police Agreement on Smart Policing

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Today, 19.03.2020, Homo Digitalis filed a request to the President of the Greek DPA for the issue of an opinion regarding the agreement for the provision of smart policing systems between the Greek Police and INTRACOM.

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09 Mar

Letter to Greek ministers for the TERREG text

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Today, 09.03.2020, Homo Digitalis sent a letter to the Minister of Civil Protection, the Minister of Justice and the Permanent Representation of Greece in the EU concerning important safeguards that should be taken into account in the.

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27 Feb

Homo Digitalis at 4th Data Protection & Privacy Law Forum

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4 Homo Digitalis members participated as speakers at 4th Data Protection & Privacy Law Forum, which was organized with the support of our organization

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24 Feb

Call to Greek political parties: Reconsideration of the Data Protection Law

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Homo Digitalis and "EKPOIZO" Consumers' Union sent a joint letter to all Greek parliamentary parties, requesting the immediate reconsideration of the Data Protection Law

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20 Feb

Homo Digitalis in the 7th Information Security Conference

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Konstantinos Kakavoulis represented Homo Digitalis in the 7th Information Security Conference, which was organized with the support of our organization

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15 Feb

Homo Digitalis educates the teachers in Chania

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On 14 February Homo Digitalis was invited to speak to the teachers of primary and secondary education in Chania, Crete

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07 Feb

Homo Digitalis distributed cookies “for free” in Heraklio, Crete

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The homo Digitalis team distributed cookies, under the auspices of the District of Crete, to explain to the public the way of operation of digital cookies

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04 Feb

Homo Digitalis participates in a stakeholders’ meeting by BEREC

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Today, February, 4, Homo Digitalis participated in a stakeholders' meeting organized by BEREC in Brussels

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03 Feb

Homo Digitalis presentation in CPDP 2020 is now available

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On January, 24, our organization contributed to a panel discussion in CPDP 2020 and the video of our presentation is now available

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30 Jan

Publication & Presentation of the first Evaluation of the CEPS Working Group

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On January 22, the CEPS Working Group on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, to which Homo Digitalis takes part in, published its first report and presented it to the European Commission

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27 Jan

Homo Digitalis presentation in the M.Sc. Program “Digital Communications Media and Interaction Environments”

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Stefanos Vitoratos, Homo Digitalis vice-president, gave a lecture in the context of the M.Sc. program of the Faculty of Communications and Media of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens

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27 Jan

Happy Data Protection Day!

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

The Homo Digitalis team in Heraklio, Crete created a video in the context of January 28, the "European Data Protection Day"

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17 Jan

Homo Digitalis particates in CPDP 2020

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Our organization will take part in Computers, Privacy, Data Protection (CPDP) 2020, the most prominent conference in Europe for ethical and legal issues regarding new technologies

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16 Jan

Homo Digitalis signs a letter to the European Commission

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On Tuesday 14 January EDRi and 41 more organizations, including Homo Digitalis, sent an open letter to the European Commission requesting transparency during the implementation the Copyright Directive

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14 Jan

Open Letter to Alphabet Inc. CEO, Mr. Sundar Pichai

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On 8 January, Privacy International sent an open letter, co-signed by Homo Digitalis, to Alphabet Inc. CEO regarding threats by preinstalled apps in Android software smatphones

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07 Jan

Open letter to the Minister of Digital Governance

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On Friday 3 January, Homo Digitalis sent an open letter to the Minister of Digital Governance, Mr. Pierrakakis, regarding the ePrivacy Regulation

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07 Jan

Anastasia Karagianni at TEDx Lesvos

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Anastasia gave a talk at TEDx Lesvos sharing her experience on a strange incident with her smartphone which then becomes the trigger to change her view of online theory.

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03 Jan

Greek Police: Non-compliance with Data Protection Legislation

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Today, Homo Digitalis communicated to the Greek DPA the non-compliance of the Greek Police with the Data Protection Legislation

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16 Dec

Hellenic Police plans to introduce face recognition technology

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

AlgorithmWatch has published an article on the use of face recognition technology by law enforcement authorities in European Union countries. Homo Digitalis’s Lefteris Chelioudakis had the honour to participate in this research.

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12 Nov

Homo Digitalis at Freedom Not Fear 2019

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7 members of our organization represented Homo Digitalis in the annual conference of European digital rights organizations, Freedom Not Fear 2019.

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06 Nov

Homo Digitalis at Larisa Music School

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On November 5, 2019 Homo Digitalis was invited by the Parents-Guardians Association of the Music School of Larisa.

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30 Oct

Homo Digitalis’s Participation and Speech at the Second Meeting of the CEPS Artificial Intelligence & Cyber Security Working Group

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On 28 October 2019, Homo Digitalis’s Lefteris Chelioudakis represented us in the second meeting of the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Working Group on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity.

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26 Oct

Complaint submission to the European Commission regarding Law 4624/2019

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On October 24, 2019, Homo Digitalis following the complaint dated on 5/30/2019, lodged a new complaint to the European Commission for non-compliance with EU law, this time regarding the provisions of the Law 4624/2019 on personal data.

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22 Oct

Homo Digitalis signs International Declaration for the cessation of using facial recognition technology

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Today, 22nd of October, Homo Digitalis along with other organisations signed the EPIC International Declaration for the cessation of facial recognition technology.

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20 Oct

Homo Digitalis for Facebook’s Content Moderation Center in newspaper “Kathimerini”

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Homo Digitalis's Konstantinos Kakavoulis comments in "Kathimerini" newspaper on the secrecy surrounding Facebook services in our country.

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17 Oct

Homo Digitalis participates in PERSONA Project

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Our organisation has become member of the Advisory Committee of PERSONA Project, represented by Homo Digitalis's Mr Konstantinos Kakavoulis.

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15 Oct

Homo Digitalis on meeting regarding the implementation of the Directive on Intellectual Property

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Homo Digitalis participated in a EU meeting regarding the implementation of the Directive on Intellectual Property in Warsaw between October 11 and 13, 2019.

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13 Oct

Homo Digitalis participates in DFF event on the strategic litigation opportunities of the GDPR

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On 26th and 27th September 2019, Homo Digitalis's E. Chelioudakis participated in a follow-up meeting on the strategic litigation opportunities of the General Data Protection Regulation in Berlin hosted by the Digital Freedom Fund.

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09 Oct

Homo Digitalis at the 1st Cyber security Conference organized by KPMG in Greece

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Homo Digitalis’s Stephanos Vitoratos represented our organisation at the first Cyber security Conference organized by KPMG in Greece.

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07 Oct

Homo Digitalis at Researcher’s Night 2019

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Homo Digitalis participated in Researcher’s Night event for the second consecutive year, spreading information and knowledge to hundreds of adults and youngsters regarding their digital rights.

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06 Oct

Homo Digitalis meets MEP Alexis Georgoulis and his team at European Parliament

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On October 2, 2019 Homo Digitalis had the great honour and pleasure to meet Mr. Alexis Georgoulis, Member of the European Parliament and his team lead at the EP, Mr. Manos Kalaintzis.

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25 Sep

Homo Digitalis on a seminar discussion regarding Law 4624/2019

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On September 24, 2019 Mr. Konstantinos Kakavoulis represented Homo Digitalis in a seminar about the initial discussion regarding the newly adopted Law 4624/2019 on personal data, which was held by EPLO and Athens Bar Association.

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22 Sep

Homo Digitalis at Researcher’s Night 2019!

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

The event will take place on Friday 27 September 2019 from 17:00 p.m. to 23:00 p.m. in the premises of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (“FORTH”) and the entrance is free of any charge.

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20 Sep

Official Request to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority for the issuance of legal opinion on Law 4624/2019

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Today, Homo Digitalis and the Consumer Association “Quality of Life” (Ε.Κ.ΠΟΙ.ΖΩ), filed a request before the Hellenic Data Protection Authority in order the Authority to issue a legal opinion regarding the newly adopted Law 4624/2019.

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15 Sep

Homo Digitalis in DOCUMENTO newspaper

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On Sunday 15th September 2019, Homo Digitalis’s members, Mr. Konstantinos Kakavoulis and Mr. Panagiotis Gialis gave an interview in Documento newspaper.

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10 Sep

Homo Digitalis participates in the Working Party of CEPS on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

The Working Party will hold its first meeting on 10 September 2019 in Brussels, while 4 more meetings will follow in the upcoming months. Its work will be completed with the publication of a study during the.

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25 Jun

Homo Digitalis at the 4th Data Privacy & Protection Conference

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On the 25th of June 2019, Homo Digitalis had the great pleasure to participate as scientific partner at the 4th Data Privacy & Protection Conference.

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11 Jun

The newest issue of GDPR Today is out!

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Today, June 11th 2019, the new issue of GDPR Today has been released including many articles and statistics about the compliance of GDPR! It is the third participation of Homo Digitalis!

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08 Jun

Homo Digitalis to the organizing committee of the Data Privacy & Protection Conference 2019

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

The Vice President of Homo Digitalis, Mr. Stefanos Vitoratos is actively involved in organizing the 4th Data Privacy & Protection Conference, that will take place onTuesday 25th of June 2019 in Maroussi of Attica Region.

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30 May

Complaint lodged by Homo Digitalis against Greece for non-compliance with the EU’s data privacy law addressed to the European Commission

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Today, on 30.05.2019, our organisation lodged a complaint before the European Commission against Greece for non-compliance with the EU law on the protection of personal data (Directive 2016/680 and GDPR).

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20 May

Open letter on the implementation of the provisions of the new Directive on Copyright

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Today, on 20 May 2019, EDRi and 41 other organisations, Homo Digitalis included, sent an open letter to the European Commission, requesting the organisations’ active inclusion in the implementation process of the newly adopted Copyright Directive, through.

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20 May

Homo Digitalis at the Greek-French School of Piraeus “Saint Paul”

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Homo Digitalis was invited by the Greek-French School of Piraeus "Saint Paul" and spoke to the students of the Secondary School and of the High School about digital rights.

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15 May

Open Letter on the dangers of using deep packet inspection

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Today, 15 May 2019, European Digital Rights (EDRi) along with other 45 civil society organizations, academics and private actors from 15 different countries, including Homo Digitalis, sent an open letter to European legislators informing them on the.

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09 May

Homo Digitalis visited Evangeliki Model High School of Smyrna

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Homo Digitalis was hosted by Evangeliki Model High School of Smyrna and spoke to the students of the 1st and 2nd grade of the High School about digital footprints and their rights regarding their personal data.

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30 Apr

Open letter on net neutrality addressed to the European Commission and BEREC

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

29 organisations of civil society, Homo Digitalis included, sent today an open letter addressed to the European Commission and the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC).

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29 Mar

Homo Digitalis in a meeting with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Today Homo Digitalis had a very interesting and important meeting with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice, Mr. George Sarlis

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27 Mar

Homo Digitalis at Ionidios School of Piraeus

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Today, 27 March 2017, Homo Digitalis conducted a presentation to students of 12-15 years in Ionidios School of Piraeus concerning Cyberbullying

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23 Mar

Homo Digitalis in the European Parliament #SaveYourInternet #Pledge2019

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Many members of Homo Digitalis who live in Belgium organized important meetings with Greek MEPs arguing against Article 13 of the new copyright directive of the EU

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08 Mar

Homo Digitalis joins forces with Statewatch, Privacy International, Digital Courage and ApTI

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

We sent an open letter to call on MEPs in the European Parliament Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE) to oppose to the introduction of mandatory fingerprinting for national identity cards

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25 Feb

Pledge2019.eu: Voters poised to make upload filters a dealbreaker in EU elections

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Austrian digital rights NGO epicenter.works and partner organisations from across Europe, including Homo Digitalis, are launching the campaign Pledge2019.eu, inviting representatives to pledge to reject upload filters

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24 Feb

Homo Digitalis at the annual meeting of Digital Freedom Fund

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Homo Digitalis had the pleasure and honour to participate at the annual developing strategy meeting, by the organisation Digital Freedom Fund in Berlin

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21 Feb

Homo Digitalis at a meeting with the Special Regulatory Committee for the Draft Law on Data Protection

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Homo Digitalis attended a meeting with the Special Regulatory Committee for the Draft Law on Data Protection

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18 Feb

Homo Digitalis proposal on the Draft Law on Personal Data

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Homo Digitalis suggested an addition to the Draft Law on Personal Data

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28 Jan

Homo Digitalis for the European Data Protection Day

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

January 28 has been established as the European Data Protection Day by the Council of Europe. The members of Homo Digitalis created a video explaining what do personal data mean for them.

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16 Dec

Homo Digitalis met with the Greek Data Protection Authority

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Homo Digitalis had the pleasure of meeting the representatives of the Greek Data Protection Authority. Present at the meeting were the Chairperson of the Authority Mr K. Menoudakos, also Mr V. Zorkadis (Director of the Secretariat) and.

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27 Nov

Homo Digitalis sends a letter to the Greek Parliament regarding the draft law on PNR data

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Homo Digitalis submitted an open letter on November 27, addressed to all the Members of the Greek Parliament, regarding the draft law on PNR data

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21 Nov

Letter to the European Data Protection Board for the ceasement of GDPR abuse

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On 21 November 2018, ApTI, Privacy International, EDRi and 15 more digital rights organizations, including Homo Digitalis, sent a letter to the European Data Protection Board, regarding the abuse of GDPR provisions in Romania

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19 Nov

Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Homo Digitalis was among 80 organizations who sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg

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12 Nov

Homo Digitalis in the European Parliament

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On the 8th of November a conference on “Facebook and other social dangers” took place in the European Parliament. Homo Digitalis was invited by Mr. Kouloglou and was represented by Anastasia Karagianni.

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04 Nov

Homo Digitalis became an observer-member of EDRi

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

Homo Digitalis is the first Greek organization to get observer-member status by EDRi

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01 Nov

Homo Digitalis’s first seminar was successfully completed

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

The first seminar organized by Homo Digitalis, entitled "European Cyber Security Month: Real Challenges-Legal and Technical Solutions", was successfully completed. More than 150 academics, professionals, students and citizens participated.

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24 Oct

Seminar: “European Cybersecurity Month: Real Challenges-Legal and Technical Solutions”

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In the context of the European Cyber Security Month campaign, Homo Digitalis organizes a conference entitled "European Cyber Security Month: Real Challenges - Legal and Technical Solutions ".

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08 Oct

Researcher’s Night was concluded successfully

Posted by: Homo Digitalis

On Friday 5 October Homo Digitalis had the pleasure to participate in Researcher’s Night in the premises of the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”.

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27 Sep

Homo Digitalis in the Researcher’s Night

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Homo Digitalis participates in the greatest celebration of Research and Science in Greece.

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