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Respondents who have not tried to

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:35 am
by asimd23
One starting point is to consider the contemporary meanings (and myths) about privacy, for example, the idea that privacy is of no importance to millennials because they place a large amount of personal information on the web. It is important to question such assumptions. Indeed, the data do not suggest that younger people are significantly less concerned about privacy. A Special Eurobarometer 431 survey on Data Protection, published in June 2012, examined the views of EU citizens about greece rcs data issues surrounding data protection. In a question related to privacy settings on online social networks, 42% of respondents had never attempted to alter the privacy settings of their personal profile from the default settings on an online social networks. Examining the reasons behind why those respondents had decided not to alter these privacy settings, 29% of those in the 15-24 age group said it was because they “are not worried about having personal data on an online social network.” However, 22% of those in the 40-54% age group also cited this as a reason (with 19% and 17% of respondents in the 25-39 and 55+ age groups respectively sharing this view).

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Base: change their default privacy settings (n=6,373 in EU28)

Source: European Commission: Special Eurobarometer 431 (Data Protection). March 2015. TNS Opinion & Social Brussels; DOI: 10.2838/552336

Assessing new innovations for protecting privacy
Certainly, concerns about privacy and digital data arose long before big data, and data custodians in both the public and private sectors—governments, repositories, companies—have relied on a number of practices in order to protect personal data: