Katarzyna Szymielewicz

Katarzyna Szymielewicz is a lawyer, activist, publicist. Co-founder and President of the Panoptykon Foundation, the only NGO in Poland tackling the problems related to human rights and new technologies. Member of the Council for Digital Affairs advising Polish government. Vice-president of European Digital Rights in 2012-2020. Since 2019 the hostess of Panoptykon 4.0 podcast. She published, among others, in The Guardian, Polityka, Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna and Pismo magazine.

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Panoptykon Foundation

Poland

The Panoptykon Foundation is the first organisation in Poland that monitors state agencies and corporations that collect massive amounts of data, and has been doing so since 2009. Panoptykon checks how they use the information they gather; exposes the abuse of power; fights for laws to protect freedom and privacy and empowers people to live consciously in the digital world.