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Beware: Your browsing habits expose privacy preferences Oct 6th 2013, 16:42, by Dan Tynan I've always believed that there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who think there are two kinds of people in this world, and everyone else. It turns out I was wrong. There are actually five kinds of people—at least, five kinds of people on the Internet, according to a new survey commissioned by MasterCard. The credit issuer collected responses to more than 50 questions from 9029 regular Internet users in nine countries, easily making it the largest such survey I'm aware of. Mind you, these folks aren't like your brother in law who thinks the Internet is a fad and still uses a flip phone held together by duct tape. These are habitual Internet users who are online at least once a week and generally much more. According to the MasterCard Digital Sharing and Trust Project, they fall into one of five kinds of "social citizen," split almost equally within the population.   To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: social_privacy-100035278-small.jpg

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