Reclaiming our Digital Rights with Homo Digitalis

Reclaiming our Digital Rights

What does reclaiming our digital rights mean in an age of surveillance and algorithmic power?

In this episode, we’re joined by Eleftherios (Lefteris) Chelioudakis, co-founder and Executive Director of Homo Digitalis — Greece’s leading digital rights organization — to explore how citizens can take back control of their digital lives.

We unpack Europe’s new regulatory landscape — from the Digital Services Act to the AI Act — and discuss how these frameworks aim to rebalance power between platforms and the public. The conversation also delves into the Predator spyware scandal and its broader implications for trust, accountability, and democracy in Greece. From algorithmic transparency to the right to protest, Lefteris reflects on what it means to defend human rights in the digital era and how civic voices can shape a fairer, freer online space.

🎙️ Produced by Georgios Karagiorgos for European Youth Press and Pulse-Z

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Vox Civica-Where Democracy has a Voice is a podcast about how democracy is lived, tested, and reinvented in the modern world. It brings listeners inside the conversations and conflicts that define civic life today — from the streets where protests begin to the institutions where policies take shape. Each episode features voices from across journalism, activism, academia, and digital-rights movements, exploring how people confront power, defend freedoms, and adapt democratic values to an age of surveillance, misinformation, and rapid technological change. In short, it’s a space where critical thinking meets civic imagination — tracing the struggles, ideas, and collaborations that keep democracy alive in the 21st century.