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Data Privacy Week 2025
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If you didn’t know already, now you do – it’s Data Privacy Week (January 27 to 31)! The brainchild of the National Cybersecurity Alliance, it aims to arm you with everything you need to spot and avoid the biggest risks to your data privacy and “Take control of your data”.

There’s never been a better time to re-evaluate how much of your personal data is floating around online than during Digital Privacy Week. While the internet has made life more convenient, it’s come at the cost of our privacy. Once you start digging into it, you’ll realize that some of your information is exposed on the internet in ways you might not have intended.

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