41 Data Privacy Statistics and Facts You Shouldn’t Ignore in 2024

Ali Qamar  - Cybersecurity Analyst
Last updated: January 8, 2024
Read time: 26 minutes
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More and more users are becoming privacy savvy in this age, but many burning questions remain unknown to most. These data privacy statistics bring light to them.

THE TAKEAWAYS

From devising company policies to protecting personal and business data, ensuring privacy and security is inevitable in this digital era of cybersecurity. Cybercriminals have seemingly unlimited, unique ways to target anyone at any time, regardless of the victim’s stature, inflicting devastating financial and reputational losses. To ensure you can combat the existing threats, you must stay abreast with the latest global data privacy statistics.

There’s every reason to be concerned about digital privacy in this day and age. Is your company about to take a turn on its privacy policy? Are you worried about your personal information getting out there because of a data breach? Do you not trust so much the respect your government has for individual rights, especially in the digital arena? All those things and more are excellent reasons to educate yourself and become a privacy-savvy user. And the first step in that journey is learning about some vital privacy statistics you should have in mind for the rest of the newly started year (and life).

If you still haven’t learned about the relevance of protecting your data privacy online, we’d like to know where you’ve been! We would love to have a holiday in a spot that provides such a perfect degree of isolation!

But even if you already know that privacy matters, it’s still difficult to assess how far data collection can go and how much of your data needs protection. We hope to shed light on this regard by showing you many useful data privacy statistics and data and how their implications can reach you.

Fundamental concepts about privacy and data collection

  • Corporations and governments share very few values and interests. One of them is data collection. For companies, knowing more about potential customers increases their income. Governments can do a more effective job in the same way.
  • Social media is the internet’s data collection gold mine.