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The week of 7 Nov to 13 Nov · No. 36 in the world

Privacy and online safety

Hacks, scams, surveillance and free speech online.

Share of the world’s attention: 0.3%
Change: –
12 weeks
Share of trending lists: 0.0%world averageUnited States 0.0%United Kingdom 0.0%Japan 0.0%What’s on the charts this week

A third what people search for on Google, a third what they read on Wikipedia, a third what the news covers: attention, not market size. Games, for one, are played far more than they’re searched for or read about. How it’s measured

Not the leading theme in any country this week

Where it splits peopleFreedom Security

Privacy and online safety · this week

Current Zeitgeist

Breakdown

What its reading is made of this week, part by part

Place

71.2%Free speech & privacy

Total100.0%

Select a part to open it or see what people read in it

Most read in Free speech & privacy

1
Privacy policy
No. 1 · 105.2k views
2
Do Not Track
No. 2 · 2.3k views
3
Privacy
No. 3 · 1.7k viewsunknown, employed by the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Co., Public domain
4
Damnatio memoriae
No. 4 · 1.5k viewsBlalthazar, CC BY-SA 4.0
5
Nazi book burnings
No. 5 · 1.2k viewsPahl, Georg, CC BY-SA 3.0 de

Share of Wikipedia reading in the world, 7 – 13 Nov · 166.1k page views · Open in the explorer

Inside Society & beliefs

Every area’s share of its reading this week; this theme’s in colour

23.1%News & information

Everything else3.4%Population & generations 1.6% · Values & ethics 1.2% · Other Society & beliefs 0.5% · Immigration 0.1%

Total100.0%

In colour: counted in this theme

Share of Wikipedia reading in the world, 7 – 13 Nov · 23.6m page views · Open in the explorer

Companies people read about

The most-read companies in it on Wikipedia this week

CrowdStrike
Thales Group
Palo Alto Networks
McAfee
Zscaler
Proton AG

Where it’s biggest

Its share of each country’s attention this week

0 to 1% or moreNo data

Biggest share

Its share of each country’s attention, against the world’s

New and growing

Phrases new or growing in this week’s English-language headlines, against the 8 weeks before

cyber attacks
Rising
8 headlines · 8 outlets
Asos reveals 'temporary' sales hit from cyber attackcountypress.co.uk

Current stories

The stories and events behind this week

Privacy and online safety

Discussion

Privacy and online safety · this week

Emotions

How its news sounds

Its tone against its usual, and each feeling against the average news

As usual

Tone −4.42 · usual −4.29

Mostly anger, 3.1× the average

Anxiety1.8×
Fear2.8×
Anger3.1×
Sadness1.1×

Each bar compares a feeling with the average news here; the tick marks the average.

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