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Data Privacy Week, Part 2

Welcome to part two of our Data Privacy Week activity. As I mentioned in part one, this article discusses privacy from the perspective of the responsibilities of the college and you as an employee or student worker. There are a number of laws that address protecting collected personal data and a few specifically aimed at higher education. We’ll discuss a couple and then I’ll fill you in on how cybersecurity awareness training will work for this semester.

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Data Privacy Week, Part 1

Welcome to Data Privacy Week, brought to you by the same group who promotes Cybersecurity Awareness Month. We’re getting a late start on the week due to the winter storm that, thankfully, only gave us some rain, but I know that many of your hometown were affected and I hope that everyone was able to adjust, and will continue to adjust as cold temperatures stay with us.

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January News from Information Security

Welcome to 2026! I hope your holidays were restful and enjoyable. Mine were very good, but of course, not long enough. The world kept on spinning while we took some time to relax and prepare for a brand new year. I gave you a month off from the newsletter in December, so I have plenty to catch you up on this month

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Protect Your Privacy When Using Social Media

Welcome to Data Privacy Week! This week to concentrate on maintaining your digital and physical privacy is promoted by the National Cybersecurity Alliance, a non-profit organization with a mission to help everyone be more secure in our interconnected world. This is the promised additional article about privacy this month, in this case, specifically about privacy while using social media.

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January News from Information Security

Welcome to the new year and new semester! I hope everyone’s holiday time was good, restful, and productive. With the spring semester here, the work begins anew in 2025. What better way to kick off the new year (cybersecurity-wise) than to celebrate Data Privacy Week? Data Privacy Week is January 27-31 this year. Look for a bonus article during that week addressing data privacy.

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Data Privacy Week – Where Is Your Data?

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…

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January (2023) News from Information Security

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.

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