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Survey: Almost 90 percent of Internet users have taken steps to avoid surveillance Sep 5th 2013, 05:52, by Loek Essers, IDG News Service A majority of U.S. Internet users polled in a recent survey report taking steps to remove or mask their digital footprints online, according to a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet Project and Carnegie Mellon University. While 86 percent of the Internet users polled said they made some attempt hide what they do online, more than half of the Web users also said they have taken steps to avoid observation by organizations, specific people or the government, according to the survey. The survey's findings are based on telephone interviews among a sample of 1002 adults, age 18 or older in July, with 792 Internet users among the respondents. People use a variety of measures to decrease their online visibility, the study showed. The most popular one is clearing cookie and browser history, which 64 percent of Internet users polled said they did. Forty-one percent said they deleted or edited something they had posted in the past and 41 percent said they disabled or turned off their browsers' use of cookies, Pew said. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: privacy_eye_blue_large-100040976-small.jpg

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