Data Privacy Day
Sunday, January 26, 2025, 10am-2pm
An event celebrating International Data Privacy Day. The event will take place at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Main (Oakland).
About Data Privacy Day
Join us on Sunday, January 26, 2025 for our Privacy Day 2025 event at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP). CMU is once again partnering with CLP to celebrate International Data Privacy Day by bringing practical advice on protecting privacy online to the general public, off the university's campus. The Privacy Day event will take place from 10am-2pm. The event is open to the public, and no registration is required. Refreshments will be provided.
Data Privacy Day is an international effort to empower and educate people to protect their privacy and control their digital footprint. For more information, please visit StaySafeOnline.org.
Questions? Email h..@andrew.cmu.edu.
Schedule of Events
Jan 26, 2025: Privacy Stories with CMU Privacy Profs
| 10:45am - 11:15am |
Preschool Privacy Story Time (Professor Lorrie Cranor) |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Elementary School Privacy Story Time (Professor Lorrie Cranor) |
| 12:30pm - 1:00pm |
Privacy Stories from Our Everyday Lives (Professor Sarah Scheffler) |
| 10:00am - 2:00pm |
Privacy Clinic (CMU Students and Faculty) |
| 10:00am - 2:00pm |
Refreshments |
The event will take place in the Gallery and Graphic Novels Room on the first floor of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Main (Oakland). There will be greeters and signage to help find your way around.
Privacy Story Times
introduce privacy to your children
Professor Lorrie Cranor will lead two story times to introduce privacy concepts to kids of all ages. The Preschool Privacy Story Time will feature Professor Cranor's original privacy story for young children and discuss where children can find privacy in the world around them. Following, the Elementary School Story Time will include a reading of The EyeMonger by Daniel J. Solove and discussion about privacy and why it is important.
Talk: Privacy Stories from Our Everyday Lives
learn how your data is being collected in your everyday life
Professor Sarah Scheffler will share real-life anecdotes of personal data being collected and used in unexpected ways. This informational talk is targeted to a general audience of adults and teens.
Privacy Clinic
Learn how to protect your privacy
Our Privacy Day event will feature a Privacy Clinic. Attendees of the Privacy Clinic will learn more about how they can protect their privacy during their daily usage of digital technology. CMU’s information privacy and security students and researchers will provide information and answer your questions about privacy risks and remedies concerning many topics, including:
- Creating strong passwords (Prahaladh Chandrahasan)
- Phishing (Sara Patel)
- Google privacy settings (Khinezin Win)
- iPhone privacy tools (Joanne Pon and Lily Klucinec)
- Privacy on Instagram (Aseem Shrey)
- Web Tracking (Alexandra Nisenoff)
- Private browsing (Weiqian Zhang)
- Communication Privacy (Baichuan Gong and Ruiyang Liu)
- AI & Privacy (Ashutosh Sahu)
Refreshments will be provided. Check out the media below for a preview of the event!
In The Past
Privacy Day is an annual event celebrated at CMU. Browse the programs of recent years.
- CMU/CLP Privacy Day 2024
- CMU Privacy Day 2023 (first event after the COVID-19 pandemic)
- CMU Privacy Day 2020
- CMU Privacy Day 2019
- CMU Privacy Day 2018
- CMU Privacy Day 2017
- CMU Privacy Day 2016
- CMU Privacy Day 2015
- CMU Privacy Day 2014
CMU/CLP Privacy Day Is Supported By
