Symantec have carried out research that looks at how much the Internet knows about you and even worse the amount of Brits who don’t even know that that there is information about themselves online.
Here are the facts: -
- 40% of consumers don’t constantly protect and control any information that is posted about them.
- 59% thought that it didn’t matter.
- 20% said that they didn’t have a clue where to start.
- Half of all adults living in the UK post content about themselves on the Internet.
- 38% of the people asked said that they do post comments on social networking sites.
- 29% post photographs.
- Nearly a quarter said that they’d posted something personal online that they wouldn’t want to share with any future employers or teachers. 14% said the most popular form of content that they’d uploaded were photographs.
- 35% couldn’t work in politics due to the information posted online about them.
- 51% said if there was a handy ‘reset’ button which would delete all the information they would use it.
Symantec advised users to run a complete search using all the names they’ve previously used on public records and on the Internet, use image and blog functions which are readily available on search engines to discover information that may have been posted about you online.
A piece of advice that I would give you is basically don’t publish anything online that you wouldn’t want a parent, employer or teacher to see.
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