The 2019 report from the Cyber Observatory Observation Society Line, which is based on data from other surveys and studies conducted in Portugal and the rest of Europe, reveals that 73 percent of Portuguese avoid disclosing personal information on the Internet.
The biggest concern about using the Internet for banking, shopping or payments is theft and misuse of personal data (49 percent of respondents), followed by the security of internet payments (38 percent, nine percentage points less than a year earlier) or the fear of not receiving the goods or services purchased.
Compared to other European practices, Portuguese people are less careful with passwords: only 13 percent use different words for different pages (the European average is 29 percent), 12 percent choose complex words (27 percent in the European Union) and 16 percent change passwords regularly (21 percent in the EU).
For the Portuguese, the worst crime on the Internet is child pornography, which collected 85 percent of responses, followed by bank fraud (78 percent) and identity theft (75 percent).