Privacy

DNA taken by British police has revealed the identity of a man behind a plantation of almost 1,800 cannabis plants in Greece that was found 16 years ago.

In September 2008, a Greek police helicopter spotted the planation near the village of Monastiri in Messinia in the southwestern Peloponnese.

Our personal data has become a valuable commodity in the digital age, and the need for robust data privacy and security measures has never been more pressing. As our lives increasingly revolve around technology, the amount of sensitive information we share with various online platforms and services has skyrocketed.

A privacy organization based in Vienna has lodged complaints against Elon Musk's "X" social network in eight European countries. The complaints, filed by the European Digital Rights Center, also known as Noyb ("None of Your Business"), accuse "X" (formerly "Twitter) of unlawfully using users' personal data for its artificial intelligence technology without obtaining consent.

The Personal Data Protection Authority has imposed a 175,000-euro fine on the Migration and Asylum Ministry for the development and installation of the Hyperion and Centaur biometric control and surveillance systems at the reception centers for asylum seekers on islands of the Aegean.

Citizens live, communicate and conduct transactions in a digital environment that is very hard to regulate. Abuses of personal data and threats to privacy are constant. It is a constitutional obligation of the state to guarantee the security of citizens' private information.

The Ministry of the Interior is planning to carry out an internal inquiry to ascertain whether there has been a breach of privacy laws that allowed a candidate for the ruling conservative party in the upcoming European parliamentary elections to send hundreds of Greeks abroad campaign material to their private email accounts.

For decades, privacy experts have been wary of snooping from space. They feared satellites powerful enough to zoom in on individuals, capturing close-ups that might differentiate adults from children or suited sunbathers from those in a state of nature.

The state will auction off any movable assets worth more than 300,000 euros, such as works of art, boats, vehicles etc, which come from criminal activities and are seized in the context of criminal proceedings.

As a millennial, I learned about the Athens Polytechnic Uprising in a rather quiet manner, through books and from two or three trusted people who were there. I read poems about it and listened to songs; I went to events that had an emotional impact.

Greece's Council of State will discuss on Friday a petition by PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis requesting that a government regulation forbidding the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE, from informing those who have been previously monitored by the National Intelligence Service (EYP) be declared unconstitutional.