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internet safety statistics
WHAT IS THE MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM?
72 percent of Americans believe their accounts are secure with only usernames and passwords, yet every two seconds there is another victim of identity fraud.
50 percent of American adults are worried about the amount of personal information about them online, while 47 percent said they were not confident they understood what would be done with their data once it was collected.
Internet safety was the 4th most commonly identified “big problem”, up from number 8 in 2014. Sexting received the biggest change in rating this year, from number 13 in 2014 to number 6 in 2015.
Just 28% of parents have installed software on computers to prohibit certain website visitation only 17% have such software on mobile devices, and just 15% on gaming consoles.
One in two parents do not use any blocking or filtering software on their children's Internet enabled devices.
Nine in 10 teens say their parents have talked to them about online safety. However, nearly half (49%) of teens claim thier parents do nothing to monitor their devices.
Nearly half of teens admit to taking action to hide their online behavior from parents. 46% of teens have cleared their search history and/or cookies on their browser.
1 in 5 teens have used a private browsing feature so their parents can’t see the sites they’ve visited.
14% of teens report friends have invited someone over that they had only met online.
On average, teens spend 5 hours and 38 minutes online every day. 18% of teens have considered meeting with someone in person whom they first met online. Of these, 58% have actually met up with someone in person.
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