[Freedombox-discuss] Infographic about the state of online privacy

[Stefano Maffulli]

Hello folks

I've been putting together a little bit of numbers around 'online
privacy' in order to produce a short press release and infographic for
our friends journalists and bloggers. I'd like to have your opinion,
comments and contributions.

I'm thinking of adding one small box with the average cost of recovering
from an identity theft: if you think it's a good idea, can you please
help me find such number?

**draft text**
The state of online privacy

Consumers whose personal information is lost or stolen in data breaches
face increased risks of identity theft, spam and phishing attacks,
reduced trust toward services on which they depend, and sometimes
humiliating loss of privacy over sensitive medical conditions.

April, Sony Corp. announced a breach in its Playstation Network
compromising an estimated over 100 million accounts containing
unencrypted personal information such as names, addresses, birth dates,
login credentials in addition to potentially tens of thousands or even
millions of credit card numbers. 35 Million Koreans lost private details
published on the most popular Korean social network.

A staggering 600 million records have been breached due to the roughly
2,460 data breaches made public since 2005.

A survey indicated that of the top 340 free apps, only 19% contained a
privacy policy at all. Last December, the Wall Street Journal
investigated the behavior of the 101 most popular mobile apps, finding
that more than half transmitted the user’s unique device ID to third
parties without the user’s consent. Forty-seven apps transmitted the
phone’s location. One popular music app, Pandora, sent users’ age,
gender, location and phone identifier to various ad networks.
**

The first attempt to summarize the number is here:

http://freedomboxfoundation.org/images/privacy-infographics.svg

It's not well visible in Firefox, you'll need Inkscape. I'd like your
opinion on it and patches from better designers :)

Cheers,
/stef

References:
(A) 
http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statistics.htm
http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/07/14/there-are-now-550000-android-phones-activated-every-day/
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/19Apple-Reports-Third-Quarter-Results.html

(B)
http://investor.yahoo.net/sec.cfm?DocType=Annual&Year=2011&FormatFilter=
http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY11/Q4/default.aspx
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704436004576297310274876624.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/wiretap/ci_18596988?nclick_check=1

D)
http://www.cdt.org/data-theft-threat

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, ―Chronology of Data Breaches,‖ last
updated May 2, 2011,
http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach#CP.

D.1)
From: http://www.cdt.org/testimony/location-data-privacy

Mark Hachman, Most Mobile Apps Lack Privacy Policies: Study, PC
MAGAZINE, April 27, 2011,
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384363,00.asp.

Scott Thurm and Yukari Iwatani Kane, Your Apps are Watching You, THE W
ALL STREET JOURNAL, December 17,
2010,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704694004576020083703574602.html