On the occasion of International Data Privacy Day, iHub-Data in collaboration with IIITH organized guest lectures by eminent scientists from industry and academia on 28 January. The first lecture was by Sitaram Chamarty, Head, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy, TCS Research and Innovation on The Many Facets of Privacy followed by a second lecture by Prof. Ponnurangam Kumarguru on Privacy on Online Social Networks.

Data Privacy Day (known in Europe as Data Protection Day) is an international event that is marked every year on 28 January. The purpose of Data Privacy Day is to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. The day was initiated by the Council of Europe to be first held in 2007 as the European Data Protection Day.