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Digital divide | Jan 21, 2025
DQL Index 2024: mapping digital wellbeing in 121 countries
Find out which factors impact a country’s digital quality of life with key facts, findings, and figures.
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Global Data Breach Map: billions breached and counting
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How private are your smart home devices?
Digital democracy
Digital freedom | Jan 28, 2025
Internet shutdowns in 2024: a global overview
At the start of 2024, 53 internet restrictions were already in place. Throughout the year, 63 new restrictions were introduced. By the end of the year, 63 cases remained ongoing.
Digital divide | Jan 21, 2025
DQL Index 2024: mapping digital wellbeing in 121 countries
Find out which factors impact a country’s digital quality of life with key facts, findings, and figures.
Digital freedom | Jan 14, 2025
Content removal attempts from Google this decade
Since 2020, Google has received nearly 330,000 content removal requests from courts and government agencies. Russia tops the list, accounting for 64% of these requests.
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Cybersecurity statistics | Feb 4, 2025
Global data breach statistics: a 2024 recap
According to Surfshark’s research, the number of breached accounts increased nearly 8 times last year, from approximately 730 million in 2023 to more than 5.5 billion in 2024.
Cybersecurity statistics | Jan 28, 2025
Global Data Breach Map: billions breached and counting
This interactive data breach map tracks the latest statistics on personal data leaks by country since 2004.
Cyberthreats | Jan 28, 2025
Data Vulnerability Thermometer: assess your data leak impact
A tool to educate users on how data breaches may lead to various cybercrimes.
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Digital privacy | Mar 4, 2025
Do phone cleaner apps help declutter your digital space?
Surfshark’s analysis of the 10 most popular cleaner apps on the Apple App Store shows all of them share data with third parties, such as location, purchase history, product interaction, and other.
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