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Sep 5, 2012Jan Lauren Boyles, Aaron Smith, Mary Madden
More than half of app users have uninstalled or avoided an app due to concerns about personal information
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Sharing information about yourself is the bedrock of social networking sites and other online communities. Pew Internet focuses on how people search for others online and manage their online identities.
Duncan Riley, TechCrunch
Dec 16, 2007
"A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project has found that 47% of American adult internet users have undertaken a vanity search in Google or another search engine."Many news sites move articles into data bases after a period of time ...
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Apr 18, 2007Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden
The majority of teens actively manage their online profiles to keep the information they believe is most sensitive away from the unwanted gaze of strangers, parents and other adults.
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Dec 30, 2006
This data set contains questions about the information people post online and what they search for about themselves and others. It was used in the "Digital Footprints" report.
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Nov 3, 2005Lee Rainie
Seven basic things to understand about Americans and their privacy in the internet age.
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Dec 14, 2002Lee Rainie
Lee's lecture covered Pew's basic findings related to privacy and information disclosure.
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Nov 19, 2001Susannah Fox, Angela Choy, Janlori Goldman, Zoe Hudson, Joy Pritts
This report is intended to give a general overview of how the federal health privacy regulation (“HIPAA”) may or may not apply to health Web sites.
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May 8, 2001Lee Rainie
At the most fundamental level, Americans would like the presumption of privacy when they are online, and they would like to be in control of when pieces of their identity are given out.
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Aug 20, 2000Susannah Fox
Online Americans have great concerns about breaches of privacy, while at the same time they do a striking number of intimate and trusting things on the Internet, and the overwhelming majority has never had a seriously harmful thing happen to them onl...
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Jun 1, 2000
This file contains standard tracking data with trust and privacy questions, data on viruses, cookies and more.
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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.