LGBTIQ+ Rights in the Digital Age

Digital Rights Lounge. Powered by Privacy Camp

Ahead of CPDP 2026, we’re bringing the Privacy Camp community together for the Digital Rights Lounge, a vibrant space to connect, exchange, question, and reimagine what digital rights can do.

Powered by Privacy Camp, this is where perspectives meet: from academia to activism, art to advocacy, and communities directly affected by digital transformation. It is a welcoming space to share perspectives and challenge the status quo together.

This year, the Digital Rights Lounge is generously supported by UK Research and Innovation Grant No. MR/W011654/1.

Digital technologies increasingly shape how LGBTIQ+ people express themselves, organise politically and access services. Yet these same technologies can expose communities to discrimination, profiling, surveillance and exclusion.

This edition of the Digital Rights Lounge explores the intersection between digital rights and LGBTIQ+ rights. It bringing together activists, researchers and policymakers to discuss how digital infrastructures affect queer lives and what can be done to effectively protect rights in the digital age.

Read the full programme here. 

Together, we’ll unpack the latest in digital rights and explore how to push back against harm, confront power imbalances, defend the rule of law, and reignite our collective drive for rights and freedoms.

When: 19 May 2026, 13:00-16:30
Location: BeCentral, Cantersteen 12, Brussels (Belgium)
Register here: LGBTIQ+ Rights in the Digital Age