Is the Government More Trustworthy than Facebook?
Why the mistrust? Yet another survey -- this one of 4,000 U.S. adults, conducted by MyLife-- found that respondents believe Facebook is less trustworthy with their personal information than the government (hello, does anyone remember the National Security Agency and Prism?), LinkedIn or Google.
Why the mistrust? Yet another survey — this one of 4,000 U.S. adults, conducted by MyLife— found that respondents believe Facebook is less trustworthy with their personal information than the government (hello, does anyone remember the National Security Agency and Prism?), LinkedIn or Google.
According to MyLife, just 17.1 percent of respondents trust Facebook with their personal information, compared with 23.2 percent for the government, 32.9 percent for LinkedIn and 47.2 percent for Google.
MyLife wrote:
So if people don’t trust an organization to guard their personal information, why do they give them the data in the first place?
Sometimes it’s simply a case of misunderstanding how a company might use personal data.
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