世論 What Japan Thinks

japan.internet.com, in conjuction with Cross Marketing, recently investigated mobile phone privacy. They sampled 150 men and 150 women, 16.6% aged 18 or 19, 16.6% in their twenties, and so on up to 16.6% in their sixties.

Note that over three times as many people take their mobiles into public toilets than into their toilet at home. I wonder what is hidden behind that statistic! Im also rather surprised to see that less than a third of all user employ any security locks on their phone; note almost all phones have lock features what require a four digit code to open them. Some of the more advanced phones go as far as having a fingerprint reader that may be used to unlock the device.

Q1: To where do take and use your mobile phone with you? (Sample size=300, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
When going out	295	98.3%
When going to school or workplace	184	61.3%
When going to a toilet outside the home	160	53.3%
When going to bed	149	49.7%
When going to toilet at home	51	17.0%
In the bath at home	7	2.3%
Not in the habit of carrying my mobile around	1	0.3%

Q2: Which features on your mobile phone do you lock. (Sample size=300, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Mail	50	16.7%
All functions (lock all or auto-lock)	36	12.0%
Address book	31	10.3%
Internet access	26	8.7%
Dialing	22	7.3%
Power on	22	7.3%
Caller display	21	7.0%
Applications	11	3.7%
FeLiCa (Osaifu keitai, electronic wallet)	9	3.0%
Other	2	0.7%
Don’t use the lock features	202	67.3%

Q3: Has anyone ever used your mobile phone without your permission to look at stored mail, address book, call history, etc? (Sample size=300)

Yes	18.3%
No	81.7%