European business sucks at data protection
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Data Protection, Blog, Security, Uncategorized on
That is the rather unsurprising conclusion of a YouGov survey which took a pan-European view on consumer attitudes to online security. It revealed that European users visit their bank most often, closely followed by retail sites. Yet when asked if the government and banks, for example, are doing enough to safeguard their data while online, a resounding 57 percent of UK users said nope, 44 percent of Germans said nein and 31 percent of Swedes responded nej.
The survey was commissioned by VeriSign who say that European Internet users are putting as much as £360 billion at risk simply by sharing personal data on sites that are lapse about security. Interestingly, the survey also asked who should be responsible for the protection of our personal information online and the answer was overwhelmingly, and again totally unsurprisingly, the banks, credit card companies and web sites themselves.
Jon Kerr, VeriSign SSL Manager, commented, “With increasing frequency, we are seeing more and more theft of consumer’s personal information. The study shows that online customers are becoming more aware of the risks involved in passing on their details over sites that may not be secure. It is the organisations themselves that will fail to benefit as they will lose out on an increasingly skeptical customer base who expect their online safety to be taken care of. Trust is difficult to build but easy to break…”
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