How We Celebrated the 40th #DataPrivacyDay in My Privacy & Technology Course
This year, I had a Data Privacy Day “first”: I celebrated it with a group of aspiring privacy practitioners in technology, my Privacy & Technology course students. As some of you may know, I am teaching my experiential Privacy & Technology course at Santa Clara Law’s leading privacy program this semester. I previously wrote about it here. We meet twice a week, and it turns out that our sixth class meeting fell on Data Privacy Day.
Quick background: Data Privacy Day commemorates Convention 108, which was signed on January 28, 1981 and is the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy.
We appreciated how far we’ve come in privacy awareness
To highlight the 40th Data Privacy Day, we spent the first part of class talking about the holiday. We discussed how far we’ve come when it comes to privacy awareness. Up until recently, “privacy is dead” has been a commonplace proclamation, even amongst tech company CEOs. This year, we had countless tech companies publicly celebrate Data Privacy Day, including Apple with their CEO, Tim Cook, tweeting about the occasion.
