DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 23 -- WE dont lose our privacy only through cyber-attacks. Sometimes it slips away in everyday spaces, on a printer, in a corridor, during a casual chat. Today, I reflects on how ordinary habits quietly expose personal information, and why protecting privacy begins with discipline, awareness, and respect.

As Tanzania joins other countries around the world in observing World Privacy Day, marked nationally from 26 to 30 January 2026, the conversation around privacy naturally turns to digital risks, online safety, and cyber threats. These are important discussions.

But this global observance also invites a more uncomfortable reflection: many of the most damaging privacy breaches do not happen online at all.

They happen...