Data Privacy Week 2026: Why Good Intentions Are No Longer Enough

It’s Data Privacy Week, the annual international awareness initiative from the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) aimed at empowering individuals and businesses to value individual privacy, safeguard data, and build trust. 

“Your online activities generate a treasure trove of data – from your interests to your purchases, as well as your online behaviors, and it is collected by websites, apps, devices, services, and companies across the globe, and can even include data about your physical self, such as health data,” the NCA says.

The week, cybersecurity experts from many companies shared their data privacy and risk advice with us. Let’s hear what they had to say

Are Your Security Apps Putting You At Risk?

“We rely on an array of data privacy and security apps: VPNs, password managers, ad blockers, dark web monitors and more,” comments Ifrah Arif, Product Manager at PureVPN. “They can conflict with one another, failing ...