Even in a happy relationship, many peek into their partner's online life
Not thrilled about making your?Google account public? Appalled by the idea of turning your?text messages into a book? Consider yourself an expert on?Facebook privacy settings? Then you may not want to read on. Or maybe you?should, though you might not like it. According to a survey by online shopping and review site?Retrevo, you might have to worry more about?privacy breaches from those closest to you than from big corporations or hackers.
About 33% of respondents admitted that they've snooped at a partner's email or call history, and that number jumps to 37% for married couples. The same percentage of parents say they poke into their kids' calls or email, and 60% of parents of teenagers admit to doing so. In general, the younger the respondent, the more likely they were to admit to snooping, with the under-25 crowd by far the nosiest. 59% of parents also said they would track their children using GPS technology.
Retrevo concludes that consumers don't have as much to fear from the privacy practices of social networks as they do from their own loved ones. Could this signal a rise in the acceptance of the technology, and a lessening of the expectation of privacy among the younger generation? With sites like Facebook offering a platform to share every last detail of their lives, many young people might simply not see the problem with peering into the cell phone their boyfriend left on the table while he went to the loo. Unless, of course, they discover that the person he's been texting all evening isn't his mother?
Retrevo via?Gizmodo
Post by Katherine Gray
[Image credit:?Retrevo]
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