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January 2013 is Data Privacy Month! Free Webinars and Easy Ways to Increase Awareness
January 2013 is Data Privacy Month! Free Webinars and Easy Ways to Increase Awareness
Data Privacy Month is an annual effort to empower people to protect their privacy and control their digital footprint, as well as escalate the protection of privacy and data as everyone's priority. Spend the month helping to ensure your campus community is respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and enabling trust. This year’s Data Privacy Month Planning Task Force has selected weekly themes for the higher education community to focus on. Several free webinars will also be offered throughout the month of January.
January 2013 Webinars
- January 9 (1:00–2:00 p.m. ET): EDUCAUSE Live! webinar: Are You Smarter Than Your Phone? with special guest Rebecca Herold (the Privacy Professor)
- January 16 (1:00–2:00 p.m. ET): IAM Online webinar: Scalable Privacy: An NSTIC Pilot Program for the Identity Ecosystem with Ken Klingenstein (Internet2)
- January 30 (1:00–2:00 p.m. ET): EDUCAUSE Policy webinar: It's Not Just Facebook!—What Every College Student Should Know About Online Privacy with Merri Beth Lavagnino (Indiana University), Jane Rosenthal (University of Kansas), and Kent Wada (UCLA)
Easy Ways to Increase Awareness on Your Campus
Here are a few easy ways to increase awareness on your campus.
- Use the graphics attached to this post on your college or university website. Consider linking the graphic to tips students, faculty, and staff can use to protect their privacy.
- Create a Twitter campaign. Using your college or university’s Twitter profile, share tips for protecting personal data with your followers. NCSA has created sample tweets that can be used daily (PDF). You can also follow EDUCAUSE and EDUCAUSE Policy to retweet the latest privacy news.
- Follow our Scoop.it! page and share recent articles on data privacy.
- Attend the data privacy webinars as a group and invite others to join in. Use the EDUCAUSE On Campus resource to help plan an event.
For additional ideas, check out these resources for students, college administrators, and educators.
Share Your Plans
If you plan on holding a Data Privacy Month or Data Privacy Day event in January, please e-mail your plans and any applicable URL’s.
Data Privacy Month is brought to you by EDUCAUSE Policy.
Data Privacy Day is held every year on January 28. To learn more, visit the Stay Safe Online Data Privacy Day website.
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