2024 couldn’t have started any better than with a commission for one of my favourite and most stable clients in Brussels, European Digital Rights (EDRI).
For those who don’t know it, the EDRi network is a dynamic and resilient collective of NGOs, experts, advocates and academics working to defend and promote digital rights in Europe.
At “La Tricoterie“, EDRI organised its annual Privacy Camp on 24 January, which I have the immense fortune to cover for the second year in a row. Privacy Camp 24 was organised in collaboration with its partners the Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Privacy Salon vzw , the Institute for European Studies (IEE) at Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, the Institute of Information Law (IViR) at University of Amsterdam and the Racism and Technology Center.
The event began with welcoming remarks by EDRI Executive Director Claire Fernandez. Bringing together digital rights advocates, activists, academics and policymakers from across Europe and beyond to discuss the most pressing issues affecting human rights in the online world.
Privacy Camp 24 was hosted under the theme “Revealing, Rethinking and Changing Systems”, and featured a dozen interesting panel discussions around the main theme of the year, which this year included words from experts on the topic such as Claire Pershan, EU Advocacy Lead at the Mozilla Foundation, Tineke Strik, MEP for the Greens/EFA group in the Netherlands, Luca Stevenson, Programme Director of the European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance (ESWA), and Ursula Pachl, Deputy Director General of the European Consumers’ Organisation (BEUC), among many others.
As always, I feel privileged to be able to work for an organisation like EDRI that makes my job incredibly easy and rewarding, with the opportunity to meet very interesting people and learn at every event I cover for them about topics that are closely related to my work.
Once again, thanks a million EDRi.I am already counting the days to have again the opportunity not only to photograph one of your events but also to meet again the incredible human team that forms part of this amazing organisation.
