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Study – How Do Americans Feel About Online Privacy in 2018?

The Best VPN – “Concerns around online privacy have come to a head in 2018. In mid-March, The New York Times and The Guardian reported that data from 50 million Facebook profiles was harvested for data mining firm Cambridge Analytica — a number that would eventually be revised to 87 million in one of the largest data collection scandals of all time. Two months later, inboxes were flooded by a slew of privacy policy updates following the implementation of the EU’s GDPR, a privacy policy law that set guidelines for the collection and use of data. Although the law was designed to increase transparency regarding the collection of data, the updates raised user concern around how companies had been obtaining and using personal information in the past. So, with thundering headlines about data breaches and privacy loss stoking fears, just how are Americans feeling about their online privacy? To answer this question, we used Google Surveys to target 1,000 Americans of all genders and ages across the United States. Read on to see how we conducted our survey and learn more about our individual findings, or jump to view our full infographic…”

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