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Half of Bulgarians with smartphones have never restricted or refused access to personal data: Eurostat

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Almost half of Bulgarians who own a smartphone say that when using or installing an app on the smartphone they have never restricted or refused its access to personal data, a Eurostat survey indicates.

The lowest self-data protection is in the Czech Republic, where 67 percent say they never restricted or refused app access to their personal data. Bulgaria comes second out of all countries of the EU with 49 percent, followed by Cyprus and the UK with 43 percent. 



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