Digital Rights Lounge
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A friendly space to recharge your digital rights energy.ABOUT
We assemble the Privacy Camp community for the Digital Rights Lounge – powered by Privacy Camp, a space to explore key issues impacting digital rights from perspectives from academia, artists, civil society, advocacy, activism, impacted groups and other stakeholders. This informal afternoon among friends, old and new, will be a moment for critical thinking and collective exploration of latest developments regarding digital rights, focusing how they can enable us to collectively resist harms, fight back against power imbalances, protect the rule of law and re-energise our rights and freedoms. More information on the programme will follow soon.
In an increasingly digitalised world, our digital and data rights are a key line of defence against repression, exploitation and surveillance. Our rights to privacy, data protection, freedom of expression and non-discrimination enable us to speak truth to power, vote, learn, communicate, and love freely.
PRACTICAL
Date: Join us on Tuesday 20 May 2025
Location: BeCentral, Cantersteen 12, 1000 Bruxelles
Time: Lunch + afternoon (TBC)
Attendance: In Person
Registration link: Join us
Programme
13:00 – 14:00 Light lunch
14:00 – 14:10 Welcome from the organisers
EDRi, LSTS and Privacy Salon are delighted to welcome you to the Digital Rights Lounge – Powered by Privacy Camp! A brief introduction and scene-setting from the organisers
14:10 – 15:00 Parallel sessions:
“What are we fighting to protect? Rights, resistance, the planet and beyond” Choose one of the interactive parallel sessions, all focused around the power and potential of digital rights to enable us to exist with freedom, safety and dignity. While the exact sessions will be confirmed closer to the time, we expect that they will be focused around the topics of:
– Data protection – remedies and enforcement
– The importance of privacy in resisting authoritarianism
– Tech and environmental justice
– The internet and artivism
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Plenary discussion:
“Simplification? Complicated times for rights, justice and democracy!”Panelists will engage with each other – and the audience – to explore how the EU simplification (aka deregulation) agenda is threatening the collective (European and global) struggle. This includes decades-long work for justice and rights relating to the environment, workers, digital/data protection, equality, and more besides. More importantly, the session seeks to explore what we can collectively do to resist this agenda – working across fields – to ensure that laws and policies that put people, planet and democracy ahead of private profit and greed.
Join us for the Digital Rights Lounge – powered by Privacy Camp
Register
As this event has limited capacity, we invite you to register your interest here. Your registration will only be guaranteed upon confirmation from one of the organisers.
CONTACT
For general inquiries please contact
Programme
To be announced, soon!
Co-organisers: Privacy Salon, Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) and European Digital Rights (EDRi)
