Despite all of the benefits of these technologies, doubts and worries persist about just how much personal information is collected, stored, used, and shared to provide these convenient and pervasive tools and services.

Data Privacy Day is an international celebration of the dignity of the individual expressed through personal information. In this networked world, in which we are thoroughly digitized, with our identities, locations, actions, purchases, associations, movements, and histories stored as so many bits and bytes, we have to ask – who is collecting all of this – what are they doing with it – with whom are they sharing it? Most of all, individuals are asking ‘How can I protect my information from being misused?’ These are reasonable questions to ask – we should all want to know the answers.

These are not questions for consumers and citizens alone – business operators must engage in this dialogue as well. They have to question whether they are complying with laws and regulations requiring consumer privacy protections. They know that customers have to trust their technologies and services before they will use and pay for them.

Join in the dialogue among all of the stakeholders – businesses, individuals, government agencies, non-profit groups, academics, teachers and students – to look more thoroughly at how advanced technologies affect our daily lives. We encourage this dialogue and are providing this website as a service to those who care about our common future and our roles as digital citizens and consumers. And let us know what you think – and how you might be able to contribute to the discussion.

To get involved, please contact us at info@dataprivacyday.org




Participating Organizations




American Conference Institute, AOL, Ariel Silverstone: Intelligent Business Security, Arizona State University, Acxiom, American Life Insurance Company, Blue Sky Factory, The Boeing Company, California Law Review, CAPAPA, J. Campana and Associates, Carolina Privacy Officials Network, Ceridian, Chief Privacy Officer Mary Beth Joublanc for the Arizona Government Information Technology Agency, Chief Joanne McNabb for California’s Office of Privacy Protection, Cisco Systems, Inc., Common Sense Media, Dalhousie University, Deluxe Corporation, DeMaree Consulting, Inc., Dialogue on Diversity, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner for Ontario, First Data, Kensington, Eastman Kodak Company, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, HIPAAT, Intel, International Association of Privacy Professionals, Jackson Lewis, LexisNexis Group, Mozilla Corporation, New York State’s Consumer Protection Board, NuTech Integrated Systems, Nymity, Ohio State University, Online Trust Alliance, Rebecca Herold & Associates: Royal Bank of Canada, The Privacy Professor, Quintiles, Scotiabank, Shred Right, Speechly Bircham LLP, Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, UC Berkeley School of Law, University of North Carolina Center for Media Law and Policy, University of North Carolina School Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, University of North Carolina School of Law, University of North Carolina University Libraries, Walmart, Wisconsin’s Office of Privacy Protection, W.P. Carey School of Business




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