28th January: Data Protection Day

29. January 2016

Yesterday, 28th of January, the 10th anniversary of the Data Protection Day was celebrated. This day was launched on April 2006 by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.

Several data protection authorities from different EU Member States and member institutions of the Council of Europe organized events in order to commemorate the Europe´s Convention 108 on the protection of personal data, the first binding document on this field at international level.

On this day, conferences, workshops and awareness activities take place, in order to discuss about the most current issues on data protection and IT security. This year the focus lied on international data transfers and cybersecurity.