Katarzyna Szymielewicz

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10 years 6 months

First name

Katarzyna

Last name

Szymielewicz

Organization

Panoptykon Foundation

Country

Poland

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Human rights lawyer and activist. Co-founder and president of Panoptykon Foundation – a Polish NGO defending human rights in the context of surveillance society and a member of European Digital Rights.
Vice-president of European Digital Rights. Board member of Tactical Technology Collective and Amnesty International (Poland). Member of advisory board for the Minister of Administration and Digital Agenda in Poland. Graduate of the University of Warsaw (Law) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (Development Studies). Active in many recent European campaigns regarding digital rights, including against
blanket data retention, Internet blocking and ACTA and for better data protection standards online.