Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Media Literacy, and New Technologies

CybeRights includes a number of projects and activities of nine Italian universities, including IMT Lucca and the University of Florence. It is an offshoot of the SERICS programme and now provides an umbrella for a number of projects and activities in the field. These include a project on media literacy (Infolead), the Flodir project (Florence observatory on digital regulation) done together with the European University Institute, with its main aim being a transnational forum to support the consistent enforcement of the new EU digitalisation acquis. CybeRights also supports the EUSAIR project on regulatory sandboxes.  CybeRights brings together academic specialists in the fields of digital sandboxes, recommender systems, digitalisation and minors,  surveillance and facial recognition issues, cybersecurity and the justice sector protection of human and fundamental rights in the realm of biometrics among others. Academics working in the CybeRights group are specialists on EU regulation of AI, digital services, media freedom, data protection and related acts.

CybeRights is lead by renowned specialists in the field Professor Andrea Simoncini and Professor Erik Longo, both from the University of Florence

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