We are going to talk about what we have done today in the camp. Basically we had three workshops.

In that morning we have started with a discussion about online privacy held by Bogdan Manolea, the representative of the Association for Internet and Technology. So, what is privacy?

Generally it’s our stuff. What we mean about privacy has to do with our details in our lives. Importantly privacy is a personal subjective condition. It’s our photos, our personal details like our name, age, birth place etc. Moreover it’s our right to say “leave me alone”.

We’ve also talked about search engines. An interesting fact that intrigued us from yesterday’s workshop is that Google’s search engine actually stores all our search queries among other personal data. It was also mentioned that all the data will be deleted only if 18 months have passed from our last search on Google.

In addition we’ve talked about encryption and how to decrypt the content. We have to replace every letter plus 13 in vocal. We’ve seen a few videos about privacy and we were amazed of how easy a hacker can break a password and steal your personal dates.

If you want more details about privacy you can find it on www.privacy.net

The next training we attended was held by Mihai Olaru, the representative of the Romanian Hotline.

What is the Hotline? It’s a chat room where you can report an abuse on the internet. In Romania since February, when the Romanian Hotline was launched, we had about 300 abuses. So it’s important to have a place where we can report abuses.

The workshop of the day was represented the resolution goal for the European Parliament.

At this workshop the participants were debating the suggestions to improve the program and the internet in general. The suggestions will be integrated in the final resolution which will be transmitted to the European Parliament in order to change the most important issues on the online safety as we, the European Youth, see it.

What can we do? We can make a declaration which will be send to EP, make a positive paper of Summer school.

What the content will be?

• Positive, it must have prospects
• Suggestions about the program related to E-Safety
• Legislative proposal
• Major concerns
• Means of involving youngsters

In the evening, Mama Cozonacilor was visited by a group of traditional Romanian dancers who set up a show for us and afterwards invited us to dance with them. Even though we didn’t catch all the steps, we had a lot of fun.

By Mihai Botezatu (Romanian volunteers) and Androula Mavrou (Cyprus)