Privacy Advocate

How to unlock Privacy Advocate in Cheevos by browsing on Data Privacy Day, January 28th, with Firefox. Worth 50 XP.

The story

Partner. January 28th. The one day a year the whole internet is officially reminded that data isn't free.

Data Privacy Day marks the anniversary of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty dealing with data protection and privacy, signed in 1981. Every year since, organizations and governments around the world have used the date to talk, briefly and loudly, about something Cache thinks about constantly and quietly: what happens to information about you once it leaves your hands.

Cache does not need a special day to care about this. He thinks about it the way most people think about breathing, which is to say he rarely stops. But he is glad there's one official date set aside for everyone else to catch up, even if just for a moment.

You were browsing with Firefox on that day, a browser built with tracking protection on by default rather than bolted on as an afterthought. Cache read that as a small, quiet choice that lines up with the spirit of the date, whether or not you were thinking about Convention 108 at the time. He logged it anyway. Obviously.

The catalog entry

DATA PRIVACY DAY (JANUARY 28) Acquired: Browsed on January 28th, Data Privacy Day. Condition: Protected. Rarity: Annual. Cache's Notes: January 28 is when the world is formally reminded that data is not free. Cache thinks about this every day. But he is glad there is one official day. You were using Firefox. You made a choice that reflects the spirit of this date. Cache logged it. Obviously.

Spoiler: how to unlock it

No special action required beyond the calendar.

  1. Wait for January 28th to arrive on your local calendar.
  2. Open Firefox and visit any page.
  3. Done. The achievement checks the date, not any specific privacy setting.

Data Privacy Day (called Data Protection Day in Europe) falls on January 28 each year, commemorating the 1981 signing of Convention 108, the first international treaty addressing automated processing of personal data. It's observed by companies, nonprofits, and governments as an annual reminder to review privacy settings and understand how personal data gets collected and used online. This achievement simply checks whether your device's local date matches January 28, so it unlocks once per year for anyone browsing that day, regardless of which specific Firefox privacy features they use.

Where it fits in the Stash

Cache keeps this filed next to his own private tracker blocklist and his running count of blocked requests, small proof that privacy is worth marking on a calendar, not just worrying about in the abstract. To meet the raccoon who thinks about this every day of the year, read the story.