Data Privacy Day 2020 – 28 January

Today is the thirteenth annual Data Privacy Day. As netizens, we all have a duty to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust. Data privacy is two-fold and dual-faceted; individuals and organizations have two duties in maintaining data privacy. As individuals, we should be protecting our own data privacy, but we also have a duty to protect data that belongs to others, especially our employer’s data and any data entrusted to our employer by others, such as clients, customers, and partners. Organizations have similar data privacy requirements as individuals. Naturally, as organizations we protect the intellectual property data and information we create, and we must also safeguard the data we are entrusted by others, such as clients, customers, partners, and employees. Embrace Data Privacy Day this year – StaySafeOnline provides a resource to help individuals update privacy settings on popular devices such as iPhone and Android, and online services such as Amazon and Instagram. Data protection firm Thales Security discusses three security controls – encryption, cryptographic key management, and identity and access management – that, when implemented properly are designed to help organizations (and will also help individuals) keep data private. Learn more at StaySafeOnline and Thales Security