Prime Time 4, Coursebook

Data Protection Day Every year on January 28, the international Data Protection Day is celebrated. This worldwide event wants to make people aware of privacy and to inform them on how to secure their personal information. Listening: Celebrating privacy a) Before you listen, make sure that you understand the words below. Complete the definitions with the correct words from the green boxes. data protection: rules for collecting and saving personal data on computers 1 personal data: personal information like name, 2 or address sensitive data: personal data that gets 3 protection like people’s religion privacy: the right to keep personal information and relationships 4 to collect data : to bring 5 information from various different places to process data: to interpret and 6 data for a specific reason to make sb. aware of sth.: to 7 and especially warn sb. of sth. b) Listen to an interview with Colin Kemp, an expert on data privacy, and find out more about international Data Protection Day. Then do the tasks below. 1. It’s Colin Kemp’s first time as an organiser of an event on International Data Protection Day. true  false 2. Why is Data Protection Day celebrated? To make people aware of data privacy. To promote the European Union. To help people to work with a computer. 3. When was Convention 108 made? 4. What do you have to do if you collect personal data according to Convention 108? You have to pay money to the people. You have to inform people about it. You have to sign an EU document. 5. Thanks to Convention 108, people are very well informed about data protection today. true false 6. Why is data protection becoming more and more important nowadays? 5a74gz 4 computers age analyse inform secret special together 1.21 226dt4 58 7 Unit Play IT safe fifty-eight Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv