Thanks to everyone for a great Data Privacy Day (and month)! The 2012 events — including FERPA for Everyone — are available in the 2012 archive!

We're looking forward to Data Privacy Day 2013. If you have ideas for topics you'd like to see, drop us a note at: privacy@iu.edu.

More about Data Privacy Day

Around the globe, people use powerful technologies and devices every day to improve their lives.

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.

For more about International Data Privacy Day, visit: DataPrivacyDay.org.

Past Events

IU has taken part in Data Privacy Day since 2008 — through a variety of events and activities. For more information, visit the page for each year:

• Data Privacy Day — 2012
• Data Privacy Day — 2011
• Data Privacy Day — 2010
• Data Privacy Day — 2009
• Data Privacy Day — 2008