TIRANA, Feb 7 /ATA/ – In the digital era, legal personal data processing is related to taking appropriate measures to ensure security of devices and systems.
The Office of Information and Data Protection Commissioner, in collaboration with the Albanian Center for Sustainable Development, with the support of the Swiss Embassy in Tirana, hosted the second workshop under the Cybersecurity and data protection project, this time focusing on higher education institutions. Students and lecturers of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Tirana attended the event.
The Information and Data Protection Commissioner Besnik Dervishi emphasized the indispensability of cooperation between public and private data protection bodies to fully guarantee the citizens’ rights in terms of providing safe services.
Adopting technical-organizational measures, including a secure digital and cybernetic environment helps the efforts to prevent or minimize personal data breaches. Another important topic up for discussion focused on the role of the higher education institutions in initiate interdisciplinary content and new methodologies in the teaching process or in their curricula, both within the educational institutions and in cooperation with other parties and stakeholders in the area of personal data protection.
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