{"id":239537,"date":"2019-10-09T02:46:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/?p=239537"},"modified":"2019-10-09T02:46:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:46:36","slug":"bitcoin-and-the-emergence-of-the-privacy-focused-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/news\/bitcoin-and-the-emergence-of-the-privacy-focused-internet","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin and the Emergence of the Privacy-Focused Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

DuckDuckGo, a popular online search engine, recently conducted a survey of Internet users in a bid to decipher their opinions on the need for privacy. As expected, the results were rather clear; people believe that they should be more protected while on the net, and they would like to have much more control over the type of information about them that Internet services and platforms collect.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Privacy is a necessity now<\/span><\/h2>\n

In a <\/span>blog post<\/span><\/a> summarizing its research effort, DuckDuckGo explained that out of the responses gotten from 1,114 random Americans no less than the age of 18, almost 80 percent had either reduced their use of social media or made modifications to their privacy settings in the past year. These modifications include moving their social media accounts to \u201cprivate,\u201d as well as the removal of location tags on posts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to those, almost 25 percent affirmed that they had either social media accounts completely deleted due to concerns over data security and privacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond social media, 36.8 percent of respondents also claimed that they had employed some password manager or the other in the past year, while 24.1 percent affirmed that they had begun to make use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)<\/span><\/p>\n

Enter: Bitcoin<\/span><\/h2>\n

The connection between this and Bitcoin isn\u2019t so difficult to see. While the world\u2019s most popular cryptocurrency was billed to be the tool that will finally deliver us freedom from the establishment, they also found it is a significant catalyst to privacy. In a world where privacy is now more required than ever (thank you, Facebook!), the necessity for Bitcoin to take center stage is now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n