Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World
Very detailed survey from six western nations on internet use, privacy, security and trust. Sponsored by the Online Computer Library Center. Use of almost everything is up from 2005, including blogs (to 46 percent, from 16 percent) and even email (to 97 percent, from 73 percent). Only library web sites are down (to 20 percent, from 30 percent). (page 1-2). Security and privacy concerns are not surprising: "The highest privacy concerns were of two types: advertising/spam and identity theft/protecting personal information." (page 3-7) Most of us share quite a bit of information online, but we also want to be able to determine who sees it and who uses it. More...