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LOS ANGELES, June 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Forget Big Brother -- it's Big Business that's watching you.
The annual study of the impact of the Internet on Americans conducted by the Center for the Digital Future found that almost half of Internet users age 16 and older -- 48 percent -- are worried about companies checking their actions on the Internet.See the full content of this document
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Concern About Corporate Intrusion in Personal Lives
By comparison, the new question for the Digital Future Study found that only 38 percent of Internet users age 16 and older are concerned about the government checking what they do online.
"Many of us are worried that the Big Brother in our lives is actually Big Business," said Jeffrey I. Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism."Internet users have major concerns about corporate intrusion -- and who can blame them?" said Cole. "Considering the recent revelations about covert surveillance of personal behavior through GPS tracking and other related issues, we believe that user concerns about the involvement -- some would say encroachment -- of companies into the lives of Internet users represent a significant iss...See the full content of this document
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