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Overview The rise of smartphones has brought real-time location data into many aspects of Americans’ lives. Some mobile services use the smartphone’s location to offer directions, targeted recommendations, or other location-specific information to the user. Other services incorporate a location “layer” into other types of functions, while still others exist specifically to share the user’s […]
In word and deed, most Americans would like the ability to be anonymous and untracked online at least every once in a while. A clear majority—59%—say that people should have the ability to use the internet completely anonymously. When internet users are directly asked, 18% say they use the internet in a way that hides […]
Mexicans are largely dissatisfied with their country’s direction. Nearly seven-in-ten Mexicans (69%) say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country, up slightly from 63% in 2012. Only 29% are satisfied. Crime tops the list of public concerns in Mexico, with 81% saying it is a very big problem, up eight […]
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted August 29-September 1, 2013, among a national sample of 1,000 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (500 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 500 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 263 who had no […]
An array of woes has struck some internet users when personal information of theirs was compromised or some of their online activities put them in conflict with others: 21% of internet users have had an email or social networking account compromised or taken over without their permission. 12% have been stalked or harassed online. 11% […]
Most of the analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 15-18, 2013, among a national sample of 1,000 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (500 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 500 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 265 who had […]
In recent years internet-connected mobile devices such as smartphones have exploded in popularity, offering an alternate form of “home” internet access.