Privacy and data protection interests around the world are today celebrating Data Privacy and Protection Day. In a video message, European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx (EDPS), and Assistant EDPS Giovanni Buttarelli, say that the year ahead will bring important challenges and opportunities and we "must increase efforts to raise awareness that everyone will be affected by a lack of safeguards in privacy and data protection in his or her daily life." Hustinx adds that "We must resist the temptation to accept easy solutions for problems that will reduce privacy and data protection" and that legal frameworks must be improved. In North America, Richard Purcell of The Privacy Projects, an organizing sponsor of Data Privacy Day, said the day is about reaching individuals of all ages to "advance privacy awareness."
Data Privacy Day events