More than a third of people in the UK believe that losing money or personal information over the internet is now “unavoidable”, a survey has found, in a further sign of growing public concern about online privacy.
The findings come as business leaders and tech companies are under growing pressure from regulators in Europe and the US to tighten security and improve their standards for handling personal data.admitted that it unintentionally uploaded the email contacts of up to 1.5m people, in the latest privacy setback to hit the Silicon Valley company since the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which the data of 87m users was improperly accessed by a third party.
But while tech companies and businesses face calls to tighten their data handling processes, the NCSC said individuals also needed to do more to protect their personal online information, highlighting the need for people to choose better passwords.