A street action organised in the context of the European Data Protection Day

Every year on January 28, the European community celebrates the European Data Protection Day, an event supported by the European Commission to promote the right to privacy and the right to protection of personal data.

It is a very special day, not only for the Member States of the Council of Europe, but also for the entire global Data Protection Community and, above all, for every individual protected by this fundamental right.

On the occasion of this day, the National Centre for Personal Data Protection (NCPDP), together with other similar European authorities, organises specific activities to raise awareness and promote good practices in the field of privacy and data protection. These activities include street actions aimed at the general public to inform and raise awareness about data protection.

In this context, today, January 29th, several employees of the NCPDP distributed to people walking in front of the Triumphal Arch in mun. Chisinau, information materials, informing them about the European Data Protection Day, the definition of personal data, the rights of data subjects, data security and confidentiality measures, as well as the principles of personal data protection. At the same time, citizens were informed about possible situations of non-compliant processing of personal data and were given practical guidance and recommendations that should be taken in such cases.

In the current year, the NCPDP aims to organize several information and awareness-raising activities for the general public in order to educate, motivate and encourage Moldovan citizens to pay more attention to the protection of their personal data.