Digital Literacy

Digital Literacy

IT companies have to provide more security to their services for the protection of users who lack digital literacy.

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During the process of selling, giving away or swapping devices, phones or computers, data can be lost, stolen and compromised. Threat actors with the knowledge of hijacking sensitive data from phone users can impersonate or steal from them having unauthorized access to their Sensitive Personal Identifiable Information (SPII).

The analysis below simply provides some insights on digital literacy.

According to this dataset and analysis, Pakistan, Kenya, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Indonesia have the lowest digital literacy rate.

Many people from these Countries make use of Bank apps, dating apps, social network apps, video streaming apps, news apps, email apps and so many more. Upon giving their devices out to repairers or vendors, they are prone to losing sensitive data.

Access to the raw quantitative dataset can be found in the link below.