New Report Finds Florida Among Top States for Online Privacy Risk, Low Digital Literacy

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A digital service provider analyzed available data to find the states where people are most worried about and suffer the greatest losses from internet crime.

OCALA, FL (352today.com) – A new report from online data supplier and proxy service provider Floxy claims Florida is in the top five states in the nation with the highest digital privacy risk and lowest digital literacy.

The Sunshine State ranked fifth in the study, which considered four factors to produce its findings: how well residents can identify scams and unsafe online behavior; internet crime (IC) complaints per capita; financial losses due to those IC reports per capita; and search volume for online safety terms and keywords, such as “digital privacy” and “online security.”

Florida, which reportedly produced 306 IC complaints per 100,000 residents that cost the public roughly $6.8 million in losses last year, didn’t score overwhelmingly negatively in any particular metric, according to a statement announcing the results of the study.

“No single factor puts Florida at the very top, but the state scores consistently across all four measures, which keeps its overall danger level elevated,” the statement read.

It should be noted that this is an analysis of available data, and not a scientific study.