Primary research - Questionnaire Analysis

Questionnaire analysis

To begin with, when asked what were the information stored in their computers and electronic devices, the responses varied. All of the respondents said that they had personal images and videos in their electronic devices while 75% had work-related documents and files. Moreover, half of the respondents had Banking details while 41.7% and 25% had private undisclosable information and virtual machines stored in their devices, respectively.
Forms response chart. Question title: What are some information that are stored in your computers and electronic devices?. Number of responses: 12 responses.


In accordance with the responses gathered from the questions on whether they were willing to share their information with law enforcement, the results were surprising. Half of them responded with no willingness to share their information with a scale of 2 out of 5 while 25% were highly willing to do so.

When asked the explanation for their choices, most of the respondents who were not willing to share information seem to have said that it was due to privacy and legal reasons.

Forms response chart. Question title: On a scale of 1 to 5, how willing are you to share the information present in your electronic devices with law enforcements?. Number of responses: 12 responses.

In addition, the same reason of due to privacy and legal reasons was used again when asked whether they think that it was alright for the law enforcement to gain information from electronic devices without consent. Half the respondents answered no, while the other half were equally divided between no and maybe. However, the other reasons explaining their choices said that it depends on whether it was urgent or necessary to do or not.



It was then asked to describe how willing were they going to share their information assuming it was a national security crisis, where the majority of 58.3% were highly willing to share their information and 25% willing to do so as well. This leaves the remaining 16.7% strongly unwilling to share their information despite it being a national security crisis.

Forms response chart. Question title: On a scale of 1-5, how willing would you be to share your information if it was a national security crisis?. Number of responses: 12 responses.

This was followed up with a multiple choice question relating to the amount of access that the participants were most comfortable with. 41.7% of the participants said that they will provide full access while 33.3% went for partial access and 25% who preferred to provide highly limited access.

Forms response chart. Question title: If you were to provide such information, which of the following choices of the amount of access you are allowing law enforcements to have are you most comfortable with?. Number of responses: 12 responses.

This leads to the final question which was whether they were still comfortable with the choices they made even if peoples lives were at risk. The respondents chose no and that it depends on the risk, where both of these choices had the same percentage of 41.7% each. The remaining 16.7% were still comfortable with their choice, thus voting yes.

Forms response chart. Question title: Would you still be comfortable with your choice even if peoples' lives are at risk?. Number of responses: 12 responses.

So to conclude, based on all the data provided it is clear that the majority of people are not willing to share their information with law enforcement due to privacy concerns unless they are provided with details such as whenever peoples' lives were at risk or if it was a national security crisis.

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