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    November 14, 2019
    4. Americans’ attitudes and experiences with privacy policies and laws

    The public has varying levels of comfort when it comes to how companies’ use their personal data

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    4. Americans’ attitudes and experiences with privacy policies and laws
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    A majority of Americans are asked to agree to privacy policies at least monthly, including a quarter who say this happens daily
    About one-in-five Americans say they always or often read privacy policies before agreeing to them
    A majority of Americans are asked to agree to privacy policies at least monthly, including a quarter who say this happens daily
    About one-in-five Americans say they always or often read privacy policies before agreeing to them
    Only a minority of Americans who read privacy policies say they read them all the way through
    About two-thirds of U.S. adults who read privacy policies say they understand at least some of them
    Most Americans are not confident that companies would publicly admit to misusing consumers’ data
    The public has varying levels of comfort when it comes to how companies’ use their personal data
    A majority of Americans say they have little to no understanding of existing data protection laws
    Most Americans think there should be more government regulation of what companies can do with personal data
    Americans are somewhat more likely to favor better consumer tools than stronger laws to help safeguard personal data

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