US-CERT - Data Privacy Day

Original release date: January 22, 2019

January 28 is Data Privacy Day (DPD), an annual effort to promote data privacy awareness and education. This year’s DPD events, sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), focus around the theme, A New Era in Privacy.

The NCSA Stay Safe Online website will feature a live stream of the Data Privacy Day 2019 – Live From LinkedIn event, which includes presentations on opportunities and challenges and the future of privacy, as well as a TED-style talk with the Amazon Web Services Global principal security architect.

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), encourages users and administrators to review NCSA’s tips on Managing Your Privacy and the following NCCIC tips:

This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.




from US-CERT: The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2019/01/22/Data-Privacy-Day

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