Microsoft figures reveal the lax approach of users of the online privacy

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Microsoft figures reveal the lax approach of users of the online privacy -

Okay - hands up if you browse online without security software. According to new research from Microsoft, which is nearly half of you. As part of preparations for a new international advertising campaign to raise awareness of issues of privacy on the Internet, Microsoft released some disturbing statistics about the lengths we go to the online protection - namely, for many of us, no. Microsoft found that 84% of UK users' concerns about privacy online, with 30% very interested. Why is it, then, that 49% of people are not doing anything to that?

research from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2011 suggests that people find tools online privacy is too difficult to understand and configure ', including tools that come with standard browsers. no wonder, then, that Microsoft is on a mission to educate users about the services available on the Internet Explorer privacy. But do browsers not doing enough to curb the British track user data leaves when they go online, especially at a time when intrusions on our privacy online are becoming more sophisticated?

Alessandro Acquisti, associate professor of information technology at CMU and a leading expert in the field online privacy, not think. Like Microsoft figures it two weeks ago, his research Acquisti found that users value their privacy online, but often fail to put their concerns in practice. Acquisti argues that we are easily manipulated by sites using tactics to request our information - even, as a featured interview in New York Times , by "something as simple as a playful site designed.

predilection specific users by sharing information via social media - whether we want it or not - the search engines, it is worthwhile to invest in a trusted VPN service (Virtual Private Network ) to browse with greater privacy and anonymity. VPN help mask the address and responsive to the user's information from the data hungry websites, hackers and spies of the network, providing an extra barrier of protection against intrusion.

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