Privacy Day, or Data Protection Day in Europe, was instituted to raise awareness on the importance of upholding data protection best practice. The recent institution of privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA made organisations reflect on how they store and use consumers’ personal information across the board, marking a significant milestone in the way data is handled in the digital era.
Here’s what experts had to say:
Corin Imai, Senior Security Advisor at DomainTools:
The importance of data privacy in the global economy cannot be underestimated. Organisations of all size now spend untold millions on targeted online marketing and advertisements, and the ways in which this data is used remain extremely murky. What’s more, the increasing prevalence of online data has seeped into the political process in most mature democracies, as evidenced in the 2016 US Presidential election and the European Referendum in the UK. Encouraging people to take a more stringent approach to data security is an important step to make in cleaning up how both politicians and businesses use our data, making this awareness day extremely important to support.
Tim Mackey, Principal Security Strategist at the Synopsys CyRC
With each new data breach, hack and ransomware attack, we’re faced with a choice – either resign ourselves to the potential that our personal data is in the hands of people who shouldn’t have it, or try and take control of the situation. With today being Data Privacy Day, I suggest it’s time for us to go on the offensive and hold the people collecting data on us more accountable. Becoming an active participant in managing online data sends the message that “business ..
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