SUMMARY EVIDENCE OF OUT-OF-CONTROL INTERNET HARMS & CRIMES
WHEN BIPARTISAN U.S. INTERNET UNACCOUNTABLITY POLICY
BANS INTERNET POLICE, PUBLIC SAFETY, & BORDERS FOR 27 YEARS.
Scott Cleland,
Executive Director, Restore Us Institute.
January 10, 2023
Cyberbullying/Online Harassment:
70% of young people experience cyberbullying before they hit the age of 18, per November 2021 First Site Guide cyberbullying statistics1.
64% of Americans under 30 have been personally harassed online, per Pew Research.2
53% of US adults personally experienced cyberbullying online harassment with 37% reporting severe online harassment, 22%, physical threats, and 18% sexual harassment, and 17% stalking and sustained harassment, per November 2021 First Site Guide cyberbullying statistics.3
51% of revenge p0rn victims indicated they had considered committing suicide, per the Cyber-bullying Research Center4.
41% of Americans have personally experienced online harassment, 25% severe online harassment per Pew Research.5
Cybercrime:
64% of Americans have experienced some form of data theft, per Pew Research.6
47% of U.S. consumers surveyed experienced identity theft; 37% experienced application fraud, and 38% of consumers experienced account takeover in 2020-2021, per Aite-Novarica Group’s U.S. Identity Theft: The Stark Reality.7
47% of Bitcoin transactions from 2009-2017 were for illegal activity, per the WSJ8.
23% of Americans have suffered from cybercrime per Gallup 2018 survey.9
0.05% is the chance of being successfully investigated and prosecuted for a cybercrime when the equivalent chance for violent crime is 46%,” per the World Economic Forum.10
Cyberattacks:
90% of U.S. organizations have been compromised by a cyberattack within a 12-month period, per the CyberEdge Group’s 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report.11
78% of U.S. organizations were affected by ransomware per CyberEdge Group’s 2022 Cyberthreat Defense Report.12
75% of U.S. organizations dealt with a successful phishing attack attempt in 2020, per cybersecurity firm Proofpoint’s 2021 State of the Phish report.13
71% of surveyed U.S. organizations have had a distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortion threat, per Corero.14
59% of U.S. organizations were hit by a ransomware attack in 2020, per Cybersecurity leader Sophos’ 2020 State of Ransomware Report.15
40% of small and medium businesses (SMBs) have fallen victim to ransomware attacks per Datto16
37% of global organizations were victims of some form of ransomware attack in 2021, according to IDC’s “2021 Ransomware Study” per TechTarget.17
Cyber-Corruption:
85% of teens and young adults, and 71% of adults, who have viewed pornography have done so using online videos, per Barna Group, “The P0rn Phenomenon,” April 2016, The P0rn Phenomenon.18
93% of pastors and 94% of youth pastors say p0rnography use in the Church community is a bigger problem than it was in the past, per Barna Group, “The P0rn Phenomenon,” April 2016, The P0rn Phenomenon.19
75% of parents believe their children have not seen p0rnography online, but 53% of the children said that they had seen p0rnography online; and 78% of 16-17 year-olds, 65% of 14-15-year-olds, and 50% of 11-13-year-olds, report having seen p0rnography in some way,” per Barna Group, “The P0rn Phenomenon,” April 2016, The P0rn Phenomenon.20
56% of American divorces involve one party having an “obsessive interest” in p0rnographic websites and 47% of families in the U.S. reported that p0rnography is a problem in their home; per Barna Group, “The P0rn Phenomenon,” April 2016, The P0rn Phenomenon.21
30% of sex-trafficking victims recruited in federal sex trafficking cases between 2000 and 2020 were on the Internet and most victims were recruited on Facebook; per The Federal Human Trafficking Report.22
1 First Site Guide, Ogi Djuraskovic, Cyberbullying Statistics, Facts, and Trends (2021) with Charts, November 2021, www.firstsiteguide.com/cyberbullying-stats/
2 Pew Research, “The State of Online harassment,” January 2021, The State of Online Harassment | Pew Research Center
3 First Site Guide, Cyberbullying statistics, November 2021, Cyberbullying Statistics 2022 (with Charts): 36 "Key" Facts (firstsiteguide.com)
4 Cyberbullying Research Center, Revenge Porn Research, Laws, and Help for Victims, Sameer Hinduja,www.cyberbullying.org/revenge-porn-research-laws-help-victims
5 Pew Research, “The State of Online harassment,” January 2021, The State of Online Harassment | Pew Research Center
6 Pew Research, “Americans’ Experiences with Data Security,” 2017, Americans’ experiences with data security | Pew Research Center
7 Aite-Novarica Group’s U.S. Identity Theft: The Stark Reality, 2022, U.S. Identity Theft: The Stark Reality – GIACT
8 The Wall Street Journal, Justin Lahart and Telis Demos, Why Crime Could Kill Crypto, June 2018, www.wsj.com/articles/why-crime-could-kill-crypto-11624008655
9 Gallup, 2018, “One in Four Americans Have Experienced Cybercrime,” One in Four Americans Have Experienced Cybercrime (gallup.com)
10 World Economic Forum, William Dixon, Fighting cybercrime – what happens to the law when the law cannot be enforced?, February 2019, www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/fighting-cybercrime-what-happens-to-the-law-when-the-law-cannot-be-enforced/
11 CyberEdge Group’s, “Cyberthreat Defense Report,” 2020, Cyberthreat Defense Report.
12 CyberEdge Group’s, “Cyberthreat Defense Report,” 2020, Cyberthreat Defense Report.
13 Proofpoint’s, “2021 State of the Phish Report,” 2021 State of the Phish report. Proofpoint 2021 State of the Phish
14 Corero, Impact of DDoS on Enterprise Organizations, www.go.corero.com/hubfs/3.%20Website%20Content/1.%20Asset%20Downloads/5.%20Infographics/Impact-DDoS-On-Enterprise-Infographic.pdf
15 Cybersecurity leader Sophos’, “State of Ransomware Report,” 2020 Sophos State of Ransomware Report 2020.
16 Datto, Datto’s ANZ State of the Channel Ransomware Report, 2019, www.datto.com/resource-downloads/Datto2019_StateOfTheChannel_RansomwareReport_NL-8.pdf
17 IDC’s "2021 Ransomware Study" per Techtarget, 2021 Ransomware Trends, Statistics and Facts in 2022 (techtarget.com)
18 Barna Group, “The P0rn Phenomenon, 2016, The P0rn Phenomenon – Barna Resources
19 Barna Group, “The P0rn Phenomenon, 2016, The P0rn Phenomenon – Barna Resources
20 Barna Group, “The P0rn Phenomenon, 2016, The P0rn Phenomenon – Barna Resources
21 Barna Group, “The P0rn Phenomenon, 2016, The P0rn Phenomenon – Barna Resources
22 Trafficking Institute, 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report, 2020, www.traffickinginstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2020-Federal-Human-Trafficking-Report-Low-Res.pdf