Tech /Mobile Security Info : Smartphone users more likely to protect mobile privacy

In an age when sharing information is
effortless, people still want to keep personal
data private, according to a new report from
the Pew Research Center.

In examining how mobile phone users manage
their mobile data, Pew found that smartphone
users are more likely than those who deploy
feature phones to focus on data protection.

Those who carry a smartphone are more
than twice as likely as those with less feature-rich devices to back up their phone contents – photos, contacts, files – and clear browsing or search history once finished. Regular handset users are 23 per cent less likely to shut off location tracking than smartphone users.

"The wealth of intimate details stored on
smartphones makes them akin to the personal
diaries of the past – the information they
contain is hard to replace if lost, and
potentially embarrassing in the wrong hands,"
Pew research associate and report co-author Aaron Smith said in a statement.

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