Data Privacy Day (known in Europe as Data Protection Day) is an international event that occurs every year on 28 January. The purpose of Data Privacy Day is to

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and promote privacy and

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best practices. It is currently observed in the

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and 47 European countries. Data Privacy Day's educational initiative originally focused on raising awareness among businesses as well as users about the importance of protecting the privacy of their personal information online, particularly in the context of social networking. The educational focus has expanded over the years to include families, consumers and businesses. In addition to its educational initiative, Data Privacy Day promotes events and activities that stimulate the development of technology tools that promote individual control over personally identifiable information; encourage compliance with

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and regulations; and create dialogues among stakeholders interested in advancing data protection and privacy. The international celebration offers many opportunities for collaboration among governments, industry, academia, nonprofits, privacy professionals and educators. The Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data was opened for signature by the Council of Europe on 28 January 1981. This convention is currently in the process of being updated in order to reflect new legal challenges caused by technological development. The

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is also protecting the integrity of data systems and thus of privacy in cyberspace. Privacy including data protection is also protected by

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. The day was initiated by the Council of Europe to be first held in 2007 as the European Data Protection Day. Two years later, on 26 January 2009, the United States

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passed House Resolution HR 31 by a vote of 402–0, declaring 28 January National Data Privacy Day. On 28 January 2009, the Senate passed Senate Resolution 25 also recognizing 28 January 2009 as National Data Privacy Day. The

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also recognized Data Privacy Day in 2010 and 2011. In 2022
The Rise of Privacy Tech (TROPT)
expanded Data Privacy Day celebrations into Data Privacy Week, kicking off the week wit
TROPT Data Privacy Week 2022
followed by
live TROPT Webcast Data Privacy Day broadcast
and
TROPT Innovators networking social

Participating organizations

A few of the participating organizations for the 28 January 2016 Data Privacy and Protection day include
The Rise of Privacy Tech
Anti-Phishing Working Group, Carnegie Mellon University, Cyber Data-Risk Managers, EDUCAUSE,

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, Federal Trade Commission (FTC),

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(FCC),

Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, ...

(FBI), Identity Theft Council, the

Privacy Commissioner of Canada The privacy commissioner of Canada (french: Commissaire à la protection de la vie privée du Canada) is a non-partisan ombudsman and officer of the Parliament of Canada. The commissioner investigates complaints regarding violations of the fed ...

, New York State Attorney General Office, the UK Information Commissioner, and Data Security Council of India.

References

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External links

Stay Safe Online websiteArchived (28 January 2012)
National Cyber Security Alliance
Convention 108 of data protection
Information privacy International observances January observances Privacy

Participating organizations

See also

References

External links