Survey Results Analysis

We conducted an online survey on the Amazon MTurk platform and received 2197 responses from platform users worldwide. We thoroughly analyzed each question’s answers and have presented the response figures below.

1.1 Basic information

1.2 What do you think is your personal information?

1.3 What do you think is your personal information?

1.4 What do you think is your personal information?

1.5 Do you worry about the leakage or breach of your account information?

1.6 Do you suspect that your personal information will be used, copied, shared, saved, or deleted by the platforms?

1.7 Did you read the privacy policy when installing a mobile APP or accessing Internet services?

1.8 Do you know the right to be forgotten?

1.9 Do you think the right to be forgotten is needed?

1.10 Do you think when you shall have the right to request deletion of your data collected by some companies?

1.11 Do you ever or will use the right to be forgotten?

1.12 Are you aware of where and how to exercise your right to be forgotten?

1.13 Do you think when you shall have the right to request deletion of your data collected by some companies?

1.14 Do you think “the right to be forgotten” will help you to protect your personal information?

1.15 Do you worry that the company still keeps your personal data even if you have deleted the account in account setting?

1.16 Did you still receive any promoted advertisement or product recommendation on your social media after you delete your account?

1.17 Do you think “the proof of erasure” is needed?

1.18 If you are provided with the capability that can verify if accounts or personal information are deleted after data deletion operation, will you use it?

Conclusion

We designed an online survey about the right to be forgotten and proof of erasure, consisting of 18 questions to gather knowledge from the general public. The survey also explores the data deletion policies the public is seeking. We have carefully analyzed the survey results and present our findings in this report.

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