The vast majority of people don't trust governments with the personal information on their smartphones, new research suggests. — Photo: Weronika Peneshko/dpa
DUBLIN: Almost three-quarters of people surveyed by Internet security software maker Malwarebytes do not trust governments with their data while almost nine in 10 view companies to be just as shady.
The reported concerns follow developments such as the British government recently demanding Apple give it access to encrypted user data, the bankruptcy of genetics tester 23andMe, and the expanding use of artificial intelligence chatbots, which are reliant on being fed vast amounts of data scraped from the Internet.
