Personal data: a comic book to raise awareness among European young adults

20 April 2010

The European project “Sensitization and information of young European citizens on the protection of their personal data” takes stock of the situation of personal data protection in nine EU countries (Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Romania, Spain and United Kingdom) and on the European legislation. This 18-month project started in January 2009  and is funded by the “Fundamental Rights and Citizenship” programme of the European Commission. It is coordinated by the French League of Human Rights (LDH), in partnership with the European Association for the Defense of Human Rights (AEDH),  European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Czech association Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) and the Spanish association Comunicació per a la Cooperació (Pangea). The project aims at raising citizens’ awareness on the issue of privacy protection. Country reports, a comparative analysis of the various situations and an inventory of the legislation and practices in the EU are being produced for that purpose. They will come with recommendations to public authorities.

As for now, the project publicly releases a comic book “Under surveillance “it produced as an information and awareness tool for young adults.

The comic book is available in Catalan, Czech, English and French. Online versions are made available on the project partners’ websites. 20,000 hard copies are available in each language and are disseminated for free.


To read the comic book, click here.

 
Contacts: AEDH (aedh@aedh.eu) - EDRI (edrigram@edri.org) - LDH (ldh@ldh-france.org)

Websites: www.ldh-france.org - www.aedh.eu - www.edri.org - www.iure.org - www.pangea.org