The State of Digital Piracy

The state of How data is collected, monetized DIGITAL PRIVACY and lost by big data miners Total registered users Active smartphones 大大 大大 大大 355M O'M 270M EMN 200M MM 193M 108 Million 150 Million 43 apps 83 apps If your personal data is stolen you risk identity theft, spam, phishing attacks. Sometimes even jail. per device per device Records lost in U.S. security breaches 2005/2006 101 Million 2007/2008 180 Million 47 transmitted the 2009/2010 phone's location. 231 Million to 3rd parties without user's consent Over 50 Revenues from online sent user's unique ID advertising Google 5 $28B 1 transmitted: age gender location $6.3B Microsoft S $2.5B phone ID to advertisers $2B $0.2B Of top 340 free apps) only 19% had a privacy policy All data refers to 2001 estimates unless otherwise noted Full references on http://freedomboxfoundation.org/privacy/ © 2011 FreedomBox Foundation Stefano Maffulli 101 popular apps