Web Users Mixed About Personal Info

December 19, 2007 – 6:47 pm

Nearly one-half of US adult Internet users surveyed have used a search engine to look for information about themselves, according to the December 2007 Pew Internet & American Life Project’s “Digital Footprints” report.

That is more than twice the 22% of users who did so in 2002, but Mary Madden, senior research specialist at Pew, was surprised the growth was not higher, according to an interview that appeared in Wired.

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