Tag: internet
Brits leaving massive online trail, increasing security risk
Brits will leave behind an online trail of 9,828 photos, 10,811 social media posts and 126 email addresses across their lifetime. A study of 2,000 adults found more than a third (36 per cent) of our lives are now shared online, which will be viewable - even when we're no longer here. Adults share an…
Study: Brits spend almost 59 hours a week online, claims survey
Brits spend almost 59 hours a week online, the equivalent of more than 2 full days out of 7, according to a survey by cybersecurity company NordVPN. This amounts to 128 days a year, or more than 22 years per lifetime online. However, that's the 4th lowest number among 16 surveyed countries globally. The average…
Website-checking tool to helps users spot scams
A new website-checking tool has been launched to help users confirm whether a site is legitimate before they click on it. Internet safety group Get Safe Online has worked with fraud prevention service Cifas to create the tool, which enables users to enter the address of any website to check if it is a real site or…
1 in 3 Brits rarely or never read Ts and Cs online
A poll of 2,000 UK adults found more than one in three (36 per cent) admit to rarely or never reading Ts and Cs online before accepting them. And of those who do, 38 per cent spend a mere 30 seconds or less scanning through. Nearly a third (31 per cent) simply can’t be bothered…
1 in 3 internet users unaware online content may be false
Image: Ofcom.org.uk More than a third of internet users are unaware that online content might be false or biased, according to new Ofcom research. It reveals that 30% of UK adults who go online (14.5 million) are unsure about, or don’t even consider, the truthfulness of online information. A further 6%…
Internet penetration worldwide reaches 66%
According to data presented by the Atlas VPN team, internet penetration worldwide will reach 66% by the end of Q1 2022. North America and Europe remain the only regions with an internet penetration rate of about 90% among their population. North America leads the world in internet penetration rate with 93.4%. The US and Canada…
Two thirds of Brits worried about spread of ‘fake news’
Two years into the pandemic and with misleading news, images and video flowing in fast from the Russia-Ukraine war, research shows that 65 percent of Brits are concerned about the spread of fake news. The UK is in the top three countries in Europe who reported being the ‘most concerned’ about the spread of fake…
Safer Internet Day: Top 5 Tips to Keep Kids Safe Online
Tomorrow (8th February) is Safer Internet Day. We teamed up with web hosting experts at Fasthosts to give our top 5 tips for keeping children safe online... We know that children’s online safety is among a parent’s biggest priorities, and it’s incredibly important to keep children out of harm’s way when using the internet. Due to…
Two in three parents struggle to be ‘digital role models’ for kids
The results of a new Kaspersky study reveal that 64% of parents find it hard to be role models for their kids and occasionally don’t follow the rules they set for their little ones. What's more, less than half of parents (40%) try to establish healthy digital habits and rules for all family members. From an…
National Internet Day: Text message abbreviations explained
Millennials and Gen Z are continually evolving, implementing ways to shorten the words they use while texting or crafting their social media posts, which has led to text message abbreviations and internet acronyms bombarding our social media feeds. Hence, intrigued to find out which texting abbreviations make people scratch their heads most, Case24.com/uk extracted global search volume…