{"id":23,"date":"2008-01-07T20:39:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T01:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mbabin\/2008\/01\/07\/pew-survey\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T01:39:56","slug":"pew-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mbabin\/2008\/01\/07\/pew-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/pdfs\/PIP_Privacy_Questionnaire.pdf\">Pew\/Internet survey<\/a> that I thought was worth mentioning. According to the survey, people are concerned about their privacy online. Although most respondents did not know what cookies are, 24% of those who did configured their browsers not to accept them, even though doing so can make it impossible to use websites that require users to sign in.<\/p>\n<p>45% of the people surveyed had never voluntarliy given their name or other personal information in order to use a website, and 61% of those people would not be willing to do so. 24% of the respondents had created fake personal information when asked to register at a site.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0When asked how they felt about websites tracking the pages they visit, 27% of respondents said it would be &#8220;helpful, because the company can provide you with information that matches your interests,&#8221; while 54% said it would be &#8220;harmful, because it invades your privacy.&#8221; 63% thought that websites should not be allowed to track their visitors&#8217; activities, and 79% said that Internet companies should ask for permission before using personal information. Finally 62% of the respondents thought that web users should have the most say over how Internet companies track people&#8217;s online activities and use personal information, while only 6% thought companies should have the most say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found an interesting Pew\/Internet survey that I thought was worth mentioning. According to the survey, people are concerned about their privacy online. Although most respondents did not know what cookies are, 24% of those who did configured their browsers not to accept them, even though doing so can make it impossible to use websites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mbabin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mbabin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mbabin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mbabin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mbabin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mbabin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mbabin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mbabin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mbabin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}