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Data Privacy Day Wrap-Up

Posted by timothy on from the now-the-truth-can-be-told dept.

Several companies, government bodies and other groups have decided to label January 28th as an annual tech holiday of sorts, Data Privacy Day. Mortimer.CA writes "Various organizations had events on it including Intel, Microsoft, Google, and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. It seems to have been mostly a quiet affair this time around, but hopefully it will grow over time."

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  1. Privacy Day by Imagix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently it's so private that nobody knew about it.

    1. Re:Privacy Day by gravos · · Score: 1

      The purpose of Data Privacy Day is to raise awareness and promote data privacy education with a particular focus towards teenagers. Rather than total data abstinence, we recommend they wear data condoms before exchanging their "information".

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    2. Re:Privacy Day by YayaY · · Score: 1

      Every day should be data privacy day...

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    3. Re:Privacy Day by master5o1 · · Score: 1

      s/wear/use/g
      s/condoms/encryption/g

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  2. Re:Mission Accomplished by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's Privacy Day. They were trying to keep it, you know. Private. Like your name.

    Either that or this is just some stupid thing so that these companies can say "See? We're doing something about privacy! We had a Data Privacy Day!"

    Or both.

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  3. In celebration of Data Privacy Day by palegray.net · · Score: 1

    I'm going to keep my computers powered off all day. Awww, damnit.

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  4. ...hopefully not. by stevejsmith · · Score: 1

    but hopefully it will grow over time

    Hopefully not. How the hell else do you think that news and video is going to get paid for without targeted advertising? (Music obviously will always be able to fall back on live performances, which is good since it would be pretty annoying to listen to ads for music.) Traditional online advertising is both annoying and inefficient – there's a reason why people actually sort of enjoy reading ads in when they're targeted to them (think: magazines).

  5. it's impossible at this point by missvolare · · Score: 1

    Isn't it like critical mass--irreversible loss of parameters? Seems not to be much lauded because of that, really...

  6. I was the only one... by ciderVisor · · Score: 1

    ...who took part in it at my place of work.

    I put on an eyepatch and bandana, stuck a stuffed parrot on my shoulder and hopped around saying "Aaaaarrrrr" a lot. I hope more people will join in next year, cos I felt a bit conspicuous.

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