Paying With Your Privacy

paying with your privacy We oppose it, but we allow it. Heck, some of us even O to watch, too. A look at the gap between our exposed reality and a desire for privacy in the on-line world. % OPPOSED TO COMPANIES 8 in 10 or MORE... SHARING YOUR INFORMATION .. are opposed to companies whose service they are using (like Google) being able to share the contents of your social media, your websites, your internet searches and the text of your emails, even by court order. 90% 80% 83% % OPPOSED TO AUTHORITIES OBTAINING YOUR INFORMATION 1 in 3 SOCIAL MEDIA USERS... 55% 61% 56% . in Canada, the UK and the US admitted that they "track or monitor others". ONLINE PERSONAS 21% 25% 54% PUBLIC LIFE SECURITY NOT COMMERCE PRIVACY PROTECTORS Comfortable being watched and watching. Oppose commercial monitoring, but support police and intelligence agencies. Oppose monitoring from both commercial and security services. PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION OF EACH PERSONA FOR CANADA, U.S. AND U.K. 17% 30% 53% 25% 16% 59% 24% 26% 50% 50% thought other users would be "embarrassed or unhappy" if they knew they were being watched photos on 76%/ facebook in the UK show drunk users! VISIONCRITICAL The study was conducted by Vision Critical, in conjunction with Queen's University Surveillance Studies Centre (http://www.sscqueens.org/). Over 3000 people who are members of Vision Critical's market panels were surveyed on-line June 2012 in the US (1002), UK (1003) and Canada (1001). For further information contact [email protected]