Data Privacy Day is an international awareness day that promotes education on best practice for data privacy. Due to technological advances they are ever increasing ways to store and use personal information in the digital age. Both consumers and businesses need to be aware of the many risks there are of personal information getting into the wrong hands. The Data Privacy Day promotes how to prevent this from happening.
Advice is available for both consumers and businesses on how to remain safe online and protect your personal information, via the stay safe online website. The site breaks the advice down into sections, giving clear advice for all age groups on the types of threats posed and how to avoid them. Tip sheets are available to download and we would encourage you to share them with friends and family to spread the word of data security.
One area of Data Privacy that Pure Planet Recycling are keen to promote is the safety of data when disposing of old IT equipment. There are instances of IT equipment still being thrown away containing personal, banking or business information that could allow cyber criminals to clone your personal information for financial gain. You must ensure that the data is destroyed before selling, donating or recycling your old equipment. For more advice see the data destruction section of this site.
Pure Planet Recycling hopes that the Data Privacy Day helps spread the word of online and data security further and prompts more people to be aware of their information falling into the wrong hands.