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I would suggest reading the original report. https://oxis.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2019/0...

Quite interesting to see that the majority of people who don't want to join the internet is because of choice and worry that they will lose their privacy.

Anyone done a study of how people who don't use the internet usually vote in elections and generally feel socially about the rest of the world?

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Statistically, the older you are in the UK the more conservative you are. It's something like 17% 18-28 but 75% 60-70.

The privacy worries are weird. In my experience this is the same group that love to use loyalty/reward cards, coupons etc. To me, those are far more intrusive to my privacy than a properly set up internet connection.

So probably the privacy concerns come from over blown news articles and reporting about latest passwords leak, information leak, hacking, exploit and any other word that remotely sounds like it's related to the internet.

You should watch Sky News sometimes talk about the latest security problem, they do not take a balanced approach to the reporting.

Yes, the whole privacy concern aspect did stick out. More so than what the BBC ran with.

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