(THE CONVERSATION) Cybersecurity and data privacy are constantly in the news. Governments are passing new cybersecurity laws. Companies are investing in cybersecurity controls such as firewalls, ...

You know, every agency now has to put out, you know, notices about having new collections of information in databases. And there's chief privacy officers at every agency.

Your personal privacy depends on your awareness, tech controls that allow you to decide what to share, and public policies that take personal privacy into account.