Privacy statistics
3 source-backed stats on privacy.
79%
of internet users are concerned about online privacy
Nearly four in five internet users report being 'somewhat' or 'very' concerned about how companies use their personal data online.
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3,200+
publicly disclosed data breaches per year in the US alone
The Identity Theft Resource Center tracked more than 3,200 publicly disclosed US data breaches in the most recent year, exposing over 350 million records.
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31%
of internet users have used a VPN in the last month
GWI's global tracker puts active VPN usage at about 31% of internet users in any given month — a strong proxy for general privacy-tool literacy.
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