Responding to survey results that were released last week by Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, a ChronicleHerald.ca editorial asks whether Canadians are "turning a blind eye" to personal data protection on their mobile devices. The results found that less than four in 10 Canadians have made attempts to protect their personal data. "There's also room for optimism," the article notes, because individuals using mobile devices the most--those aged between 18 and 34--were more likely to adjust their privacy settings. Stoddart said, "Young people are sometimes stereotyped as digital exhibitionists who are quite uninhibited in posting comments and personal images...And yet, this new data shows that they not only care about privacy, they are actually leaders in protecting it."
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