FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 25, 2017

Contact: Belinda Allen

Communications and Marketing Specialist
E-mail: allenbel@iupuc.edu | Desk: 812.348.7339

Data Privacy Day event held at IUPUC

Columbus, IndianaUniversity Information Technology
Services (UITS), Office of Womens Studies, Office of
Student Research, and the Feminism and Spectrum clubs
sponsored a Data Privacy Day (DPD) presentation in the
Columbus Learning Center on Wednesday, January. 25
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The national DPD annual date is
Saturday, January 28.

The information table was open to the public and

offered online safety tips and tricks, handouts, pamphlets,
T-shirts, and more.

According to staysafeonline.org, the United States first

BRANDI RUND (left)
recognized the Data Privacy Day in 2008 as an extension University Information Technology Services (UITS)
of the celebration in Europe. DPD celebrates the signing of Support Services Team Lead
Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty
dealing with privacy and data protection. MICHAELA WISCHMEIER (right)
Academic Affairs
Office for Women Program Assistant
Brandi Rund, UITS support services team lead, registered
IUPUC with DPD making the campus internationally
recognized as a data champion. Under registration, IUPUC
has made the commitment towards a dedication to
respecting individual privacy, safeguarding data, and
enabling user trust.

Dr. Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick is an associate professor of

English, adjunct associate professor of Womens Studies,
and director in the Office of Student Research at IUPUC.
Goodspeed-Chadwick shares, Its terrific that IUPUC has
been added to the list of Data Privacy Day Champion
Organizations on StaySafeOnline.org because data privacy
is an issue that we all have to acknowledge and address,
JULIE GOODSPEED-CHADWICK, Ph.D.
from faculty to staff to students. Division of Liberal Arts
Associate Professor of English
IUPUC is going the extra mile to make itself a social justice
champion in connection with data privacy at Data Privacy
Day at IUPUC, under the leadership of Brandi Rund, because the DPD event will include information about
data privacy and womens safety, Goodspeed-Chadwich added.

To learn more about DPD and its history go to http://staysafeonline.org/data-privacy-day/.

###

Page 1