Homo Digitalis is Greece’s first civil society organization dedicated to protection and promotion of digital rights. Founded in 2018, the organization combines awareness campaigns, policy engagement, and legal action to defend human rights in the digital era. Between October 2024 and May 2025, Homo Digitalis visited more than 20 schools across Greece to discuss cybercrime […]

In the digital era, our identity is no longer confined to physical documents such as passports or ID cards. Instead, it exists in the form of digital identity—a combination of data, credentials, and digital footprints that define who we are online. This includes usernames, passwords, banking details, and even the traces we leave behind on […]

During our event on September 2nd, the NGO EDUCO presented its work; here is its contribution. “I don’t like it when he gets aggressive when you tell him to stop using those devices,” or “It seems complicated to set limits and discern when screen time can be positive without overusing it” are some testimonies from […]

The growing ubiquity of artificial intelligence systems, especially generative models such as deepfakes and synthetic data generators, is redefining the boundaries of digital identity. No longer limited to identifiers such as names or ID numbers, identity in the digital ecosystem is now composed of dynamic elements—facial images, vocal patterns, behavioral profiles, and even inferred characteristics—many […]

My contribution aims to provide a psychological and clinical perspective on digital identity theft. To understand the clinical implications of digital identity theft, it’s first necessary to address how mass digitalization has radically changed our sociocultural context and, consequently, our mind, with reference to Bateson’s thinking (1972). Digital technology, in fact, cannot simply be conceived as a […]

In a complex world, even in the digital criminogenic context, journalistic communication could encourage scientists, citizens, and associations to discuss the ‘unusual’ and what is still far from the digital cultural heritage of public opinion. As with violent crimes, journalistic representation of digital risk, especially complex cybercrimes such as identity theft, oscillates between ‘dramatisation’ and […]