What Americans Would Do To Protect Our Identities

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With the massive Equifax hack of 2017, the credit bureaus have shown that they can't protect your identity. It's up to you. How far would you go to protect it yourself? Would you stop using public WiFi? Stop using social media? Move to North Korea?

We asked your fellow Americans how far they're willing to go, and you'll be amazed by their answers.

In a 2018 Google survey, we asked:

Using weighted averages, more than 1 in 5 (21.8%) asserted that they would "Stop using public WiFi". Surprisingly, nearly 1 in 6 (15.5%) said that they would "Stop using social media". Even more shocking, nearly 1 in 16 (6.4%) said that they would be willing to "Move to North Korea"! That's even bigger than the 4.6% who would "Switch to a non-smartphone". Over half (51.6%) wouldn't take any of these steps to protect their identity.

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