“Privacy by Design: The Gold Standard” Join Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s Information & Privacy Commissioner, on the morning of January 28, 2010 at the Toronto Board of Trade for her annual symposium to commemorate International Data Privacy Day – “Privacy by Design: The Gold Standard.” Come hear the Commissioner, and a distinguished group of speakers, including Dr. Kai Rannenberg, T-Mobile Chair for Mobile Business and Multilateral Security, Goethe University, Frankfurt, and, Art Smith, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GS1 Canada, who will describe how Privacy by Design has benefited their organizations. Learn how this practical, time-tested approach protects personal information while ensuring the functionality of technologies and business practices. Register now.
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Dalhousie University and the Canadian Association of Professional Access & Privacy Administrators will be offering Dalhousie Data Protection Day 2010, a half-day conference focusing on topics for privacy professionals and educational workshops looking at day-to-day privacy solutions for Dalhousie staff, featuring presentations by Dr. Dawn Jutla and David Fraser among others. For more information about the conference, or to become a sponsor, visit http://its.dal.ca/ddpd10/.
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Check CAPAPA’s ConneXions page for a list of Data Privacy Day events occurring across Canada on January 28, 2010. CAPAPA ConneXions events are free to members and guests and offer interesting and dynamic opportunities for networking and increasing awareness about access and privacy in the Canadian context.
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The Council of Europe will host its 4th Data Protection Day. “On the Data Protection Day, events should be organised all over Europe to raise awareness on data protection and inform citizens of their rights and of good practices, thereby enabling them to exercise these rights more effectively. The Data Protection Day should be a special occasion, a time set aside by each and every one of us to familiarise ourselves with a largely unknown, yet major, facet of our everyday lives.”
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On January 28, 2010, Qartas Corporation presents “Building online trust in a connected world” in honor of Data Privacy Day from 1:00 to 6:00 pm in the Batanes Meeting Room at the EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, Philippines. Speakers will discuss Policies and E-Government Growth in the Philippines; Cyber Security Awareness, Data privacy Fundamentals; and Building Online. A cocktail reception will follow.
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The Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (LSTS/VUB) will organize, together with other institutional, academic and corporate partners, a series of activities for Data Protection Day on 28 January 2010, including: a political debate on privacy at the European Parliament, pooling together decision makers, academics, youngsters, experts in communication and representative of the private sector and civil society; a Pecha Kucha; an awards ceremony of 3 prizes for civil society (best privacy campaign); for IT specialists (best privacy boosting technology); and for artists (best artistic expression of privacy); and a privacy party, with DJs and privacy technologies.
In the two following days, the LSTS/VUB, together with research centres and universities, will also organize the third edition of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference – CPDP2010. The CPDP will be held in Brussels on the 29th and 30th January, and will host panels on stakeholders’ agendas and specific topics as well as parallel sessions on Ambient Intelligence, Cloud Computing, and data protection in Justice and Home Affairs. Further information on the program, the call for papers, registration information, and the inscription are available on the website.
Source: Data Privacy Day 2010. Check their site for events added after this posting.