6-in-10 Smartphone App Users Have Chosen Not to Install an App Because of Concerns About Personal Information information the discovering app required
Among all smartphone app users, six-in-ten downloaders have chosen not to install an app when they discovered how much personal information the app required in order to use it. Separately, 43% have uninstalled an app for the same reason after initially downloading it.
6-in-10 Smartphone App Users Have  | Chosen Not to Install an App Because of  | Concerns About Personal Information  | % of app downloaders discovering who chose to do each of the  | following after discovering how much personal  | information the discovering app required  | Chose not to install  | an sapp  | they Uninstalled had previously an app  | they had previously  | 43  | downloaded  | Source Pew Research Center: Surveys, Jan 27-Feb 16, 2015  | N=461 adults ages 18 and up The margin of error forall adultsis  | +/-5.8 percentage points.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 