There is a widely held myth that people who grew up in a digital world aren't concerned about online privacy. It seems to have become conventional wisdom that Millennials just accept lax privacy assurances as the price for leading their internet-focused lives. Well, it's long past time to bust that myth, and a new nationwide poll does just that.
Just because Millennials are the first digital natives — having had computers, the internet, mobile phones and social media as part of their early lives — doesn't mean they have a cavalier attitude about the way their personal information is handled. As it turns out, the privacy concerns of Millennials are just about as strong as those of us who were born before the advent of the digital age and the construction of an internet ecosystem that now touches all of our lives.
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