* Responses were prompted. The original survey question was: "I am now going to read out a list of types of personal information that organisations hold. Ranking each type with a number one to ten, where one means you don't consider the information sensitive at all and ten means you consider the information to be extremely sensitive, how sensitive do you consider the following types of personal information to be?"
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Sensitivity of personal information in the United Kingdom (UK) 2014
This survey illustrates how sensitive individuals in the United Kingdom considered certain types of personal information to be in 2014. Of respondents, ** percent rated financial information extremely sensitive.
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