Ok it’s not as great as your birthday, but it comes once a year—Data Privacy Day, which was celebrated worldwide this week on January 28, 2019.

In honor of Data Privacy Day 2019, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published a map of the world showing which countries protect the online privacy

In the United States, Canada and 27 European countries, January 28 of each year is known as Data Privacy Day.  Started in Europe as “Data Protection Day” to recognize the January 28, 1981, signing of the Europe’s first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection, known as Convention 108, Data Privacy Day