Most adults, including college students, are unconcerned with the quantity of personal information available about them on the Web, and don’t take steps to limit its availability.

According to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project released yesterday, 60 percent of surveyed adult Internet users aren’t worried about their “digital footprints,” like their home address or phone number, being easily traced thcoarse search engines.

Of those indifferent adults, 17 percent (most of them college age, 18 to 29) are still cautious, after a fashion. Even though they report being unworried about the quantity of personal information that will turn up in Google, they actively limit it.—Hurley Goodall

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