{"id":245827,"date":"2018-05-27T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=245827"},"modified":"2018-05-25T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T12:51:58","slug":"south-africans-are-quickly-losing-trust-in-companies-like-facebook-and-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/245827\/south-africans-are-quickly-losing-trust-in-companies-like-facebook-and-google\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans are quickly losing trust in companies like Facebook and Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ipsos has released the results<\/a> <\/strong>of its latest Internet Security and Trust survey, showing how people around the world feel about internet privacy right now.<\/p>\n

The survey was conducted between 29 December 2017 and 5 March 2018, and polled 25,262 users from across 25 different countries. This includes over 1,000 South Africans who were weighted to match current demographics in the economy.<\/p>\n

The survey found that more than half (52%) of internet users around the world are more concerned about their online privacy than they were a year ago.<\/p>\n

Among those who are more concerned about their online privacy, three quarters (74%) say that internet companies contribute to that growing concern \u2013 second only to cyber criminals (81%) and ahead of other internet users (66%), one\u2019s own government (63%), companies in general (61%), foreign governments (58%) or employers (48%).<\/p>\n

Global internet users also express a high-level of distrust of social media platforms, search engines and internet technology companies with 63% of respondents claiming that social media has too much power.<\/p>\n

Those in emerging markets such as Nigeria (84%), Egypt (81%) and Kenya (79%) are most like likely to agree that social media has too much power, while residents of Russia (40%), Japan (47%) and Poland (49%) are less likely to say so.<\/p>\n

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South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Africa is a stand-out when it comes to rising levels of distrust, particularly around internet companies.<\/p>\n

When asked to what extent government contributed to an increase in online privacy concerns over the last year, 34% of South African respondents said that it had contributed ‘a great deal’, while 30% felt that they ‘somewhat agree’.<\/p>\n

This combined score of 64% placed South Africa 10th behind countries such as the United States (78%), Poland (65%) and Brazil (64%) when it came to governmental privacy concerns.<\/p>\n

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However, South Africa was the highest ranked country when asked\u00a0to what extent internet companies contributed to an increase in online privacy concerns over the last year.<\/p>\n

48% of South African respondents said that it had contributed ‘a great deal’, while 36% felt that they ‘somewhat agree’ for a total of 84%.<\/p>\n

This is 10% above the international average of 74%, and beats out India and the USA (83%), as well as France and the Republic of Korea (78%).<\/p>\n

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Read:\u00a0\u00a0You need to change your Twitter password right now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new survey shows that South Africans are becoming less trusting in how internet companies handle privacy and personal data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[26,2237],"class_list":["post-245827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-ipsos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245827"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245869,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245827\/revisions\/245869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}