A roundup of links on tracking, advertising and security. These are not complete or even representative, but may be useful to somebody.

Attitudes towards tracking and surveillance

• 91% of adults in the survey “agree” or “strongly agree” that consumers have lost control over how personal information is collected and used by companies (http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/11/12/public-privacy-perceptions/)
• 64% believe the government should do more to regulate advertisers, compared with 34% who think the government should not get more involved (ibid)
• 40% of teen social media users say they are “very” or “somewhat” concerned that some of the information they share on social networking sites might be accessed by third parties like advertisers or businesses without their knowledge (http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/05/21/teens-social-media-and-privacy/)
• 81% of parents report being “very” or “somewhat” concerned about how much information advertisers can learn about their child’s online behavior (ibid)
• 17% of the adults who have heard about the government surveillance programs say they have changed their privacy settings on social media in an effort to hide their information from the government (http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/03/16/how-people-are-changing-their-own-behavior/)
• Smart, Useful, Scary, Creepy: Perceptions of Online Behavioral Advertising (https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/pgl/soups2012.pdf)

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