Appendix I: Sources, Credits & Arigato’s
Many thanks to those whose shoulders I stand on:
comScore: US Smartphone Platform Market Share. 2017.
Litmus Labs: Email Client Market Share. 2017.
Net Marketshare: Browser Marketshare. 2017
Net Marketshare: Search Engine World Market Share. 2017.
Pew Research Center: Americans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance. 2015. Mary Madden & Lee Rainie.
Pew Research Center: Americans’ Privacy Strategies Post–Snowden. 2015. Lee Rainie & Mary Madden.
Pew Research Center: Americans and Cybersecurity. 2017. Kenneth Olmstead and Aaron Smith.
Stack Overflow: English-Speaking Developer Profile. 2016.
Wikipedia: US Demography. 2017.
Artists: ThomasHawk, Karola and Schwartzbrot via Flickr.
@ThatPrivacyGuy for developing and administrating the questionnaire, then making the raw data available to me.
The amazing moderators and readers of the Reddit groups r/Privacy & r/PrivacyToolsIO for allowing this survey to be posted and discussed on their subreddits.
You, for reading this far. 😉
Appendix II: Survey sample definition & rights reserved:
Methodology:
An anonymous, thirteen–question online survey was conducted over two days on Nov. 2–3, 2017. 328 people responded. The survey questions were written by @ThatPrivacyGuy, the creator of one of the best sites objectively evaluating Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), ThatOnePrivacySite.
Invitations were also posted on the Reddit forums r/Privacy (Dedicated to the intersection of technology, privacy and freedom in the digital world) & r/PrivacyToolsIO (PrivacyTools.IO provides knowledge and tools to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance).
Combined, all three online locations enjoy 418,000 monthly active users. Rough estimates of response splits are: r/Privacy (50%), r/PrivacyToolsIO (30%) & TOPS.net (20%). These three sources aren’t representative of mass audiences, but they do represent the normally hard–to–measure Privacy Seekers demographic. Reddit trends American, so most comparison survey responses are drawn from three recent Pew Research Center surveys of Americans and eight other quality sources
Some Rights Reserved:
The datasets in Appendix III & IV are covered under the Creative Commons NonCommercial-Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License: CC: BY-NC-SA: @Jefe001 & @ThatPrivacyGuy.
This Privacy Seekers paper, including its charts & infographics, are covered by CC: BY-NC-SA: @Jefe001.
You’re encouraged to use the information here and the datasets in the next appendix to do interesting things. Share them with everyone. Give credit. Let’s do great work. Contact me for commercial use to benefit a mutually agreeable digital activist organization. And, contact me for related but separate projects for yourself or your firm. Enjoy!
Continue on to Appendix III–IV for “Privacy Seekers”. Datasets.
