New figures reveal that three in 10 UK adults (29%) don’t know how to wipe their personal information from an old device or tech product.
With the festive period looming, over a quarter (27%) of UK adults are planning to treat themselves to a new device this Christmas. However, our latest poll found that the average Brit has three unused devices sitting at home.
Three-quarters (75%) of people have held onto at least one old device, with a fifth (20%) having done so because they are worried about their personal information.
More than two-thirds of UK adults (71%) agree that erasing your personal information is important, however almost one quarter (24%) believe that it is too difficult.
While the majority of people (84%) would make sure they have erased all their personal information from a device before they dispose of it, young people are the least concerned about their personal information. 14% of people aged 18-34 admitted they would not wipe their device at all, compared to only 4% of people over the age of 55.
One in five (21%) young people do not think it is important to wipe their personal information, while almost a quarter (23%) do not have concerns about what might happen to their data.
