{"id":24809,"date":"2012-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2012\/09\/05\/more-than-half-of-mobile-users-avoid-certain-apps-due-to-privacy-concerns\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T00:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T05:03:40","slug":"more-than-half-of-mobile-users-avoid-certain-apps-due-to-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2012\/09\/05\/more-than-half-of-mobile-users-avoid-certain-apps-due-to-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Half of Mobile Users Avoid Certain Apps Due to Privacy Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding: 0px;margin: 5px 0px 20px;border: 0px;color: #46423a;line-height: 20px\">More than half of mobile application users have uninstalled or avoided certain apps due to concerns about the way personal information is shared or collected by the app, according to a nationally representative telephone survey conducted by the Pew Research Center\u2019s Internet &amp; American Life Project.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding: 0px;margin: 5px 0px 20px;border: 0px;color: #46423a;line-height: 20px\">In all, 88% of U.S. adults now own cell phones, and 43% say they download cell phone applications or \u201capps\u201d to their phones. 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