Category: DPW
Data Privacy Week – Pre-Spring Cleaning Challenge
Spring cleaning, while not as popular a phrase these days, is still a thing, whether we call it that or not, and no matter the time of year. Spring is just a natural time to start fresh. Temperatures rise, there…
Welcome to Data Privacy Week 2023! This event is “sponsored” by the National Cybersecurity Alliance, whose goal is empowering a more secure, interconnected world. They do this by providing individuals and companies with as much information as they can about…
Welcome to 2023 and welcome back to Berry! I want to congratulate you for surviving the holidays and deciding to come back to campus for a brand new year and brand new semester. There are LOTS of things to discuss this month, including Data Privacy Week, a reminder about updates to our login security, and some tips for you LastPass, Tiktok, and Twitter users.
Data Privacy and “O.P.P.”
Instead of “being down with O.P.P.” as a jarring, offensive attitude and phrase, we’re going to say that “being down with O.P.P”, other people’s PRIVACY, is something to strive for. So how do we become “down with O.P.P.” in this new and much better sense?
This week is Data Privacy Week, created by the same folks who support Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October of each year. This used to be just a single day in January, but the topic is growing rapidly both in criticality and scope. Every time we use the Internet, whether is via social media, shopping sites, content sites, or more important things like banking online or dealing with other financial tasks, information about us is gleaned by the sites we visit and even by sites we don’t. Limiting this information gathering is what this week is all about.