Report Summary
This report provides members of the Policing Performance Committee with an overview of SPA Biannual Public Opinion Polling Activity.
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 11 October 2022
Date : 11 October 2022
Location : online
Online Safety & Data Privacy
Respondents were asked which types of personal data they would be content for police to use to protect people from online harm and fraud, and on what conditions they would support this.
Respondents were more supportive of the police service making use of ‘location data’ (44%) and ‘online identifiers such as an IP address’ (42%) to protect people from online harm and fraud than who opposed it (37% and 39% respectively). However, the opposite was observed for ‘social media’, ‘cookies, website and browsing history’ and ‘financial data and bank details’ where more people opposed use than supported it. 48% of people were opposed to the use of cookies and browsing data and 62% to the use of financial or bank details.
Those with greater trust and confidence in the police were more supportive of using various forms of personal data, and those with more negative perceptions of the police were more resistant.
Those who supported the use of any form of personal data were asked what assurances they would like before this happened in practice. The majority, 80%, imposed at least one condition with 37% looking for assurance on both how data would be stored/used and that it would be fully anonymised.
