The share of Americans who say they are very or somewhat concerned about government use of people’s data has increased from 64% in 2019 to 71% today. Two-thirds (67%) of adults say they understand little to nothing about what companies are doing with their personal data, up from 59%.
This is all rather meaningless because we don’t know the demographics of those who answered: 5,101 US adults of what generations?
I’m pretty sure younger generations aren’t nearly as concerned about privacy as older folks who grew up before Big Data became the dystopian thing it is today (statistically that is, that’s not to say there aren’t privacy-conscious youngsters or recklless data-sharing old folks).
This survey looks like it was mostly answered by gen-Xers.
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This is all rather meaningless because we don’t know the demographics of those who answered: 5,101 US adults of what generations?
I’m pretty sure younger generations aren’t nearly as concerned about privacy as older folks who grew up before Big Data became the dystopian thing it is today (statistically that is, that’s not to say there aren’t privacy-conscious youngsters or recklless data-sharing old folks).
This survey looks like it was mostly answered by gen-Xers.
The table of contents at the beginning of the report has a link to the methodology. Here’s the methodology for this study:
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/10/18/data-privacy-methodology-2/
Towards the bottom there is an image with the info you need.
18 or older selected at random from across the entire country, read this for more information about how they selected those adults.