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Today is the last day of Data Privacy Week 2022, which is marked as Data Privacy Day in Europe. Both events are formal observances of the ratification of Convention 108. The convention has been modernized several times since it was first opened in for signing in 1981 and its protocols shape healthcare data privacy use, storage and destruction, for example, and define boundaries between how consumers/internet users are responsible for protecting their personal privacy and how business and government entities must take responsibility for the ethical collection of data and customer privacy protection.
