According to Kaspersky analyzed anonymized data, 85% of users are most interested in finding out how to set up privacy settings for services specifically on Android.
As for apps, about 22% of this year’s requests were related to Google services security guidelines (22%), the company says.
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According to a ‘Digital Privacy and Security Survey’ conducted by the Calyx Institute in 2021, 80% of respondents were worried about the topic of digital privacy over the last year and 59% said they felt more aware of how their data is treated than a year ago. To help allay these concerns, users can limit the amount of personal data that is available online.
Kaspersky’s findings were obtained based on anonymous data relating to visits to the Kaspersky Privacy Checker website between January 2022 and July 2022.
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Figures for the most viewed pages on the Privacy Checker website also confirm greatest popularity for Android requests – the pages with top views were all related to instructions for services or apps run on this OS.
For services settings in general across different operating systems users were most often interested in guidelines for Google services (22%), WhatsApp (14%), operating systems privacy rules and Chrome (12% each).
Instagram (11%) closed the top five, slightly outperforming Facebook this year in terms of the number of requests – its share was 10%.
This year for all services, the largest share of requests was related to medium level instructions. The exception was for the Safari browser, where users were more interested in the strictest privacy rules – 54% versus 45% for medium.