E-administration: trust in authorities for data protection France 2019

With the rise of digital tools and offers for major industries to expand to virtual space, the source wanted to assess the level of trust among the French concerning the ability of public authorities to insure the security of confidential data of citizens in 2019. Thus, it shows that about more than half the respondents were rather confident about public authorities being capable of securing personal data, while the smaller half was rather skeptical.

Do you trust the public authorities to insure the security of digital data they have and especially citizen personal information?

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Totally confident	8%
Rather confident	49%
Rather not confident	30%
Not confident at all	13%

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Release date

November 2019

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Region

France

Survey time period

September 2-22, 2019

Number of respondents

1,005*

Method of interview

Online panel

Supplementary notes

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Avez-vous confiance dans les pouvoirs publics pour assurer la sécurité des données numériques qu'ils détiennent et notamment des informations onfidentielles vous concernant?"

* The source adds the following information: 1,005 French people were assessed. The total number of participants equalled to 6,011, from six countries (France, UK, Germany, Norway, Spain and Italy). The report has been prepared in accordance with the international standard ISO 20252 "Market studies, social studies and opinion".

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