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Initially launched in 2006 by the Council of Europe as ‘Data Protection Day’, Data Privacy Day celebrates the signing of ‘Convention 108’ in 1981.
40 years later it is bewildering to think of the change, from then to now, in how data is used, collected and processed. From 2010 to 2020 alone, the volume of data consumed worldwide exploded from two zettabytes (two trillion gigabytes) to 59 zettabytes.
As the anniversary of Data Privacy Day comes and goes, I like to take stock and ask myself: what will the big developments be this year? And how, in a world which runs on information, can data be truly protected?