Levels of concern over personal data collection and use in the UK 2021

Published by Ani Petrosyan, Feb 7, 2023
According to a survey on current attitudes towards online personal data use, carried out in the United Kingdom (UK), just 12.5 percent of respondents said they were not at all worried about their personal data being collected and used. The majority of respondents were at least a little worried.

How worried are you about the collection and use of your data?

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Release date

March 2021

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

February 2021

Number of respondents

1,269 respondents

Supplementary notes

The survey question was phrased by the source as follows: "There is increasing evidence that our personal data is collected when we are online. How worried are you about the collection and/or use of your data?"
Percentage points exceeding 100 percent are probably due to rounding.

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