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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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”
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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”
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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”
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
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
Posted by: Homo Digitalis
Homo Digitalis participates in the greatest celebration of Research and Science in Greece.
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