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Smartphone and privacy: Best Friends Forever?

03 January 2012

IPhone, Android phone, Windows Phone, BlackBerry ... These smart devices already were already bought by 17 million people in France, attracted by their varied features and by price discounts offered by operators. CNIL, the French data protection authority tried to better understand the way the French citizens use these new technological devices. What kind of personal data do they store on them (pictures, contacts info, bank details, PINs, medical information)? Are people aware of the sensitivity of several of these data? How do they protect them? To answer these questions, the CNIL and the Médiamétrie company performed an online survey with 2,315 smartphone users above 15 (Médiamétrie is an independent company that measures the audiences of the main audiovisual media)