Seven out of 10 Brits want tougher penalties for breaching privacy rules

According to a new survey carried out by YouGov for data privacy company myGaru 71 percent of of UK adults want to see tougher action in penalising companies that abuse data privacy by misusing third party data. Around a third of the public (34 percent) have already made changes to the privacy settings of one or more of their social media accounts since the Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal and 19 percent say they would make more or new changes in the future. Overall, 44 percent of consumers have become more concerned about how their data is used by third parties,… [Continue Reading]