Get Involved in Data Privacy Day 2010 |
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If your organization is celebrating Data Privacy Day, participate ...then get involved and encourage your colleagues to get involved. |
| If there’s been no mention in your organization about Data Privacy Day ...then contact your Chief Privacy Officer, CEO, information security officer, and managers, and tell them that Data Privacy Day is being celebrated across Canada on January 28, 2010. After all, if you don’t tell them about Data Privacy Day, who will? |
To include your organization's scheduled Data Privacy Day events, email the details to Events [@] CAPAPA.org |
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Getting Started
Increase your professional profile by planning a Data Privacy Day event in your organization. Coordinate a brown-bag lunch-and-learn session.
Invite a CAPAPA member to lead an information session.
Invite executives to showcase the privacy “best practices” within your organization.
Encourage business units to share their experiences and successes.
Invite governance groups (compliance, audit, business continuity, risk management, etc.) to present their perspectives on information privacy.
Invite IT leads to offer guidance on electronic data protection.
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In Your Community
Get your community involved by holding a contest for local students to design a privacy related poster. Promote the contest through your local school board. Encourage local businesses to offer prizes for the winning entries.
Host a movie night or ask your local independent revue theatre to have a special screening of privacy-related films including “Minority Report”, “Changing Lanes”, “The Net” or "Live Free or Die Hard" and get your local radio stations and newspapers to promote the event.
Attend a Data Privacy Day information session being held at universities and organizations across Canada.
Buy a cross-cut paper shredder for the office, and another for home, and start using them to shred everything that contains personal information. Bank statements. ATM receipts. Credit card offers. Mailing labels. Envelopes. Utility bills. Email printouts. Homework assignments. |
At Home
Phone your banker/dentist, chiropractor, insurance broker, medical benefits provider, school, lawyer, government representative and ask what they are doing to protect personally identifiable information. Ask them any or all of the following questions:
• Who is your privacy officer and how can I contact that person?
• How can I view my personally identifiable information?
• How quickly will you notify me when a breach occurs that jeopardizes the security of my personally identifiable information?
• How often are your employees and contract staff given refresher training on best privacy practices?
• What was the nature of the last information privacy breach, and what did you do to make sure the same thing doesn't happen again?
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At The Office
Conduct refresher sessions for your experienced privacy and records management coordinators.
Conduct training sessions for new privacy and records management personnel.
Conduct refresher and / or training sessions for your Executives.
Conduct refresher and /or training sessions for your governance groups (compliance, audit, risk management, etc.) and law department.
Conduct training sessions for front-line employees. Make sure they know the law and corporate policies covering proper information handling practices. |
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