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Online Internet User Survey

Thank you for taking our survey! For our Computer's Ethics and Social Responsibilities class (Professor Eric Roberts), we are working to assess the current state of corporate privacy policies online. Your answers to the following questions will help to illuminate how users interact with privacy policies online and whether or not they are concerned about privacy while online. We ask you to answer the following questions truthfully and if you have any comments that you would like to add, please be sure to share them with us. Any further questions about the study can be directed towards Nick Miyake (nfm02 at stanford.edu), Julie Black (jblack at xenon.stanford.edu), Kevin Christopher (kchristo at stanford.edu), and Joel Englander (joele at stanford.edu).

What percentage of the time do you read privacy policies?

40-60
60-80
80-100

What percentage of the time do you omit personal information online?

40-60
60-80
80-100

Have you ever falsified information?

Are you ever concerned about privacy whenever you are online?

Do you know of any circumstances in which your private information has been misused?

Would you like to elaborate?

An anonymizer is a piece of sotware or a service that allows you to conduct web browsing with a greater degree of privacy.
How often do you use an anonymizer to protect your privacy?

Encryption is a technique that allows you to protect information using a password or key so that only the intended recipient can read it.
Do you encrypt e-mail for privacy reasons?

What kind of privacy do you expect from online sites?

Do you have a false sense of privacy?