UK Online Safety Act sparks greater privacy awareness

The UK’s Online Safety Act has already led to controversy in a number of areas, but it seems that, on a positive note, it may have helped drive a growing level of privacy awareness among internet users. New research from AstrillVPN shows a surge in searches related to privacy tools. Data breach checker ‘Have I Been Pwned’ has topped the list of the UK’s most searched online privacy tools, receiving an average of 67,542 monthly searches. In addition ‘Incognito mode’ accounted for 38,650 monthly searches while ‘Tor browser’ clocked up 33,217. The generic term ‘phishing’ earned more than 21,000 searches… [Continue Reading]