But among the unreached by the Internet and those who are simply afraid to enter into a worldwide network. These – more than 730 thousand. And fear of Internet threats is not unfounded, analysts say.
last year, about 15 percent of Internet users have faced with other problems. Among them, the researchers called spam, viruses, hacking, information systems and e-mail, theft of money and personal data.
In some regions, malicious Internet activity are not able to avoid the majority of users. So, in the Lipetsk region, the proportion of victims has reached 90 percent, in North Ossetia-Alania close to 50 percent. In the Murmansk region, Kalmykia, St. Petersburg, Samara region, Sevastopol and Krasnodar region, has exceeded 40 percent, the study said.
In the end, the largest share of the population, are fearful of the Internet, in 2019 is recorded in the Ryazan region – 2.4% (or 26.7 thousand people), in the Leningrad region (2.1 per cent, 39.1 per thousand people), and Kamchatka territory (1.6 per cent, 5 thousand people). In the TOP 5 also includes the Krasnoyarsk Krai and Murmansk oblast. And closes the top ten most careful of Mordovia from 1 per cent (7.9 per thousand).
During seven years of follow-up (years 2013-2019), notice analysts in the whole country the proportion of the population not using the Internet for reasons of security and confidentiality of personal data, then decreased, then increased. It reached a maximum of 2.2 percent, or 3.2 million people in 2014. Then the number of such citizens has decreased five times. Then again two years growth. In 2018 once again, the proportion of refusals decreased, and in 2019 again increased, amounting to 0.5 percent or more than 730 thousand people.
However, the Internet has entered our life. And those masters, every year becomes more and more. Over the past five years the number of households connected to the world wide web, increased by 7 percent. But only in Russia the Internet uses more than 80 percent of the population.
Elena Trubnikova, President FinExpertiza:
– Fears of a significant part of the population to face computer hacking, theft of personal data or money understandable and largely justified.
Statistics show a record increase in the number of cyber crimes – 90 percent in the first half of 2020 and more than 200 percent in the past year. On sale and then exposed the personal database.
of Course, that’s no reason to give up the Internet, which is basically impossible for a modern person. Rather, it is an occasion to reflect on improving digital literacy.
