IP address

Unauthorised access to such information may lead to privacy issues,

and hence, need to be protected with utmost care. With more and

more digital awareness, there is a growing concern of data breaches

and mishandling of personal data by the organizations. Recently,

WEF published the following statement:

“There is a growing concern about privacy issues in the use of

identity information. For example, more than 60% of people in the

US are concerned about how the collected information will be used

by companies and governments”.

WEF also referred to the report by PEW research centre, which is

represented in Figure 17.1 as follows: