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Chiara Castro

Data Privacy Week: is it time to rethink our approach to privacy?

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It's Data Privacy Week again, the annual event that reminds us to secure our data online. I'm sure, though, that with the changing laws and events around the globe, most of us have been thinking hard about our privacy in the past 12 months. 

For instance, while opening up new exciting possibilities, the AI chatbot frenzy also brought fresh concerns about data harvesting and online scams. The use of VPN services is still high around the world among both citizens and organizations, too. In the meantime, Big Tech received some of the biggest fines ever for infringing GDPR rules in Europe—already earning enough to pay them off. If that's not enough, the quantum computing threat continues to loom in the background which will make traditional encryption methods obsolete.

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