This coming week is Privacy Awareness Week, an annual event that is supported in New Zealand by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in partnership with a number of other privacy agencies around the region including Australia (federal), New South Wales, Victoria, Northern Territory, Hong Kong, Korea, New Zealand, Canada (federal) and British Columbia.
The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s site outlines a number of things you can do to support the activities of the week;
- support/promote an event organised or hosted by another agency or host your own event in your town
- highlight your own privacy work by, for example, putting out guidance information; or
- publish guidance information for those using or working with cloud platforms;
- do a supportive media release;
- invite any speakers you may have visiting at the time who could talk about privacy, to do a public or invitation-based seminar or workshop
With this in mind a colleague in our Auckland office has compiled a comprehensive list of thing should be thinking about as you use Microsoft’s products. In the post he outlines some simple steps you can take to protect your privacy in each of the following categories;
- Your Personal Computer
- Your Web Browser
- Your Wireless Home Network
- Your Personal Internet “Cloud”
- Your Toys and Gadgets
The whole post can be found by clicking on this link.
