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Description
Project "Privacy in the Age of Corona" will strengthen the watchdog role of the Croatian civil sector in the protection of digital human rights. As a watchdog organization, Politiscope is focused on privacy and protection of the digital rights of Croatian and EU citizens.
Through the establishment of an informal network of CSO’s and the implementation of public advocacy activities based on targeted analyses, we want to eliminate illegal epidemiological practices of data collection and prevent non-transparent and disproportionate digital surveillance.
The announced and expected autumn increase in the number of newly-infected represents an optimal opportunity for the deepening and normalization of harmful practices imposed by the competent public bodies and is thus also a unique opportunity for advocacy activities aimed at stopping such practices.
By monitoring of public bodies and conducting targeted analyses, we want to: create public and institutional pressure aiming to improve the work of the Croatian Data Protection Agency; make the general public aware of the illegality of measures and instructions of epidemiological bodies that violate their fundamental rights; legally and technically analyze the Government''s contact-tracing in relation to privacy protection and GDPR compliance; encourage the ombudsman''s offices to report in more detail on the state of digital rights, which is necessary and urgent due to the numerous newly-introduced forms of data processing for epidemiological purposes; contribute to the protection of the privacy of students attending classes online.
Summary of project results
The Corona-era Privacy Project has contributed to raising public awareness of illegitimate and illegal pandemic data collection and processing practices through the successful media placement of key analysis findings created within the project, contributing to a higher level of public awareness of their privacy and digital rights. At the same time, the project also made a strong contribution to increasing the capacity of Croatian civil society to protect digital and fundamental rights. In addition to introducing itself to the public as the first and only privacy watchdog organization, Politiscope has formed the first informal network of associations to work together on digital and fundamental rights issues. In accordance with the defined activities of the project, a strategic litigation was initiated, which asks AZOP to comment on illegitimate and illegal pandemic practices.
The project supported the finalization of the development of the official website of the association, which enabled the raising of content about the activities of the association. During the project, the English and Croatian versions of the website were created and a total of 19 individual web articles were written.
Within the project, a strategic litigation was submitted in the form of a submission to the Personal Data Protection Agency, requesting a statement on the Government''s illegal and illegal data collection and processing practices that AZOP ignored, in order to encourage the supervisory body to take a clear critical stance.