An awareness raising event 

Data Privacy Day is an annual event for people interested in data privacy and data protection. It aims at raising awareness and promoting privacy and data protection best practices at European and international level.

With its first edition in 2018, Data Privacy Day provides useful information regarding current trends, legal and practical aspects as well as technical backgrounds of data privacy and data protection. thanks to speeches and feedbacks from professionals in the field acting on the Luxembourg soil.

Data Privacy Day is organized by the Restena Foundation and the University of Luxembourg, every year in January in Belval, in the South of Luxembourg.

A part of a global initiative 

Data Privacy Day is organized – under the umbrella of Cybersecurity Luxembourg – in the framework of the Data Protection Day which is held every year on 28 January. Launched in 2006 by the Council of Europe, the initiative is celebrated across and outside Europe with various awareness activities organized on that specific date.