Author Topic: FYI: Pew Research Center report on Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security  (Read 1586 times)

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Dear WeatherCat Netizens,

This morning the PewResearch Internet Project has a study they did on people's perceptions of privacy and security.  You can read it for yourself here:

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/11/12/public-privacy-perceptions/

Perhaps the most important result that they found is that Americans have lost their confidence that they have control over their personal information on the Internet.

Nonetheless, there is a bit of confusion if not hypocrisy in that a majority of Americans are will to share personal information in exchange for free services.  Considering how potentially damaging such information could in the wrong hands, this may well be a case of being penny-wise but pound-foolish.

For your information . . . . .

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]