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<\/a><\/p>\nFor all the talk of digital rights – and the Big Brotherly tentacles of Big Tech \u2014 a surprising number of Americans would sell even their most sensitive data, sometimes for a song.<\/p>\n
In fact, according to research commissioned by Okta, which develops cloud software for authenticating users, only 24% of Americans would refuse to sell any of their online information, at any price.<\/p>\n
Perhaps unsurprisingly, users were less willing to trade biometric data, offline conversations and identifying personal information than they were data on their purchasing, browsing and location.<\/p>\n
But 15% would still sell their passwords for $100 or less.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to know exactly why users would part with even profoundly private information for such relatively small sums, though one might hazard a few guesses: They are strapped for cash; they are less fearful of corporate surveillance than people suppose; they assume that their personal data is already being secretly stolen as a matter of routine.<\/p>\n
For all the talk of digital rights – and the Big Brotherly tentacles of Big Tech \u2014 a surprising number of Americans would sell even their most sensitive data, sometimes for a song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":143170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3676,437],"class_list":["post-358789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-passwords","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358793,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358789\/revisions\/358793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nNow read: What\u2019s Next \u2013 In conversation with Godfrey Motsa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"