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U.S. opinion on companies selling personal data for online ads 2018

How comfortable are you with companies being able to sell data related to you, such as an email address, for online advertising purposes?

The data describes the share of internet users in the U.S. who feel comfortable about companies selling their personal data for online advertising purposes as of May 2018. According to the findings, 62% of respondents stated that they were very uncomfortable with the fact that companies were able to sell their personal data for online advertising reasons. Only 6% stated the opposite, by being very comfortable with these activities.

Very comfortable 6
Somewhat comfortable 7
Somewhat uncomfortable 19
Very uncomfortable 62
Don't know/No opinion 6