75 Percent of Online US Households Have 'Significant Concerns' About Privacy, Security

About 75 percent of U.S. households connected to the internet “had significant concerns about online privacy and security risks in 2017,” the U.S. Census Bureau said in a NTIA survey released Monday. Nearly a third of online households said those concerns “caused them to hold back from some online activities,” and 20 percent said they “experienced an online security breach, identity theft or a similar crime during the past year,” the survey, which was conducted in November 2017, said.