The protection of personal data is now a key part of individual literacy in everyday life. Nevertheless, researchers regularly observe a contradiction among the general public, which they describe as the “privacy paradox.” There is often a wide gap between the concerns expressed about protecting personal data and people’s actual behavior when handling such data.
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