About

This website

In theory, this is both a personal archive and blog that is focused on Law, Technology and Digital Rights. In practice, anything goes.

These are the rules:

The articles in the blog will be either in English or in Portuguese, depending on the subject and intended target audience. | I don't expect to write often. | Feel free to drop a comment or an email to react to any text or for any other reason. | As a personal archive / memory, I will use this blog to register events in which I participate, articles I write, and other stuff that is important to me. I will be retroactively adding content I have spread around.

Me

Eduardo Santos, hi! đź‘‹

I'm an attorney-at-law (Bar number 55590L) based in Lisbon, Portugal. I hold a Law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon – earned more years ago than I care to count – and began my legal career as a trainee in 2013. I've been a practicing attorney since 2016.

Over time, my interests have increasingly focused on the intersection of Law and Technology. I pursued a post-graduate program on Law & Tech at the CatĂłlica University in Porto, and later completed a Master's degree in Law, with a specialization in Law & Tech, at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon. At NOVA, I'm also involved with the activities of the NOVA Knowledge Centre on Intellectual Property & Sustainable Innovation (NOVA IPSI), as a researcher.

I serve as the National Coordinator for Portugal in the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) initiative – an exciting Europe-wide effort advocating for the modernization of copyright law (bringing it to the 21st century, in short), particularly with respect to access to knowledge and information in the digital age.

I'm also a co-founder of D3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais, Portugal's digital rights association and member of the European Digital Rights (EDRi) network. I served as D3's President from 2017 until December 2023, during which I was involved in everything from tech policy and advocacy to lobbying and public campaigns on issues such as privacy, net neutrality, data retention, surveillance, copyright reform, and platform regulation – as well as a fair share of the behind-the-scenes administrative work that keeps things running. Today, I continue to support D3, especially in policy-related areas.

Since 2024, I have been a consultant for the Council of Europe (CoE), in the project «Upholding equality and non-discrimination by Equality bodies regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in public administrations in the area of AI & non-discrimination and upholding equality, including gender equality». This is a CoE/EU-funded project, managed by the CoE, in partnership in Portugal with the Portuguese Gender Equality Body CIG (“Comissão para a Cidadania e Igualdade de Género”).

Between 2017 and the start of the pandemic, I actively participated in international Internet governance fora, representing civil society perspectives: Internet Governance Forum (IGF): 2017 Geneva; 2018 Paris; 2019 Berlin. EuroDIG: 2017 Tallinn; 2018 Tbilisi; 2019 The Hague.

TL;DR
I contribute to initiatives and research projects at the intersection of Law and Technology, with a focus on digital rights and public interest regulation.

Contact

my first name at 
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Disclaimers

No idea expressed by me in this website should ever and in any way be considered original, i.e. an exclusive product of my own thinking. In case an original thought or idea of mine slips through, I hereby present my deepest apologies in advance, and promise my best efforts so it does not happen again. I also strongly deny having emotional bonds or deep connections with my works, those are unfounded rumors. Finally, these works do not reflect my personality and are certainly not an extension of my person.
No crickets nor Visigoths allowed.