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India, the Least Honest on the Web
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 21:43 IST |
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Bangalore: The alarming express of cybercrime is spreading its wings in every nook and corner, India definitely not out of its hammer. In fact it is astonishing to find out that India holds the third place as the least honest nation on internet, reveals a study conducted by Norton Cybercrime Report (more than 7,000 adults from 14 countries including India took part in research).
About a half of Indian adults have vehemently accepted the fact that they had lied on internet on innumerable occasions and this points at the major loop hole in the cybercriminal activities in our nation.
The study indicates that nearly half of all people globally are happy to tell online lies about their personal details, including their name, age, financial and relationship status; their appearance and even their nationality. And a third of all adults have assumed false identities online, from a false name through to a totally fictitious identity.
The Indian population that was surveyed spent an average of 30 hours per week online, as compared to the global average of 24 hours per week. The time spent online echoes the fact that most of the Indians are now using the Internet to fulfill all the needs from work to personal and a great deal of it on their mobiles.
About 33 percent of adults have used fake online identity and 45 percent lied about personal details. Germans tops the list in faking it with 58 percent, followed by China with 56 percent, Brazil and Indian adults stands at 55 percent respectively.
