Thomson Reuters FoundationPrivacy concerns are pushing people to change their behavior online, according to an international poll published yesterday that found one in three avoid specific search terms or Web pages to elude tracking. “People and authorities are waking up to the impact of data collection,” online privacy expert Paul-Olivier Dehaye said in an e-mail. “People want to see an end to tech companies trampling over our right to privacy,” O’Carroll said. However, Edin Omanovic, advocacy director at London-based group Privacy International, said new laws were not always the answer. Of the nine countries surveyed, only Egypt has no specific data protection law, the French data watchdog CNIL said.
