2 out of 5 Singaporeans share sexual content on mobile devices: survey
A survey found that nearly all Singaporeans use their mobile devices to take photos – including intimate ones.
The 2014 Love, Relationships & Technology survey released by McAfee on Wednesday showed that 44 per cent of respondents send and receive sexual content on their mobile devices in the form of video, photos, emails and messages.
More than half also say that they save such content, though sharing and saving such content increases the risk of intimate information being leaked.
While four in five adults say they trust their partner with the intimate content they have sent, more than half have asked for the content to be deleted after a breakup.
A total of 354 adults in Singapore were interviewed for the survey from late December to mid-January to examine how they share and store intimate data on their mobile devices.
The survey also found that many intend to celebrate Valentine’s Day on social media, with more men than women planning to post messages and photos on social media. Men are also more likely to use their mobile devices to send and receive suggestive content.
Couples in Singapore are open to sharing more than just intimate content with their significant other. According to the survey, 73 per cent of respondents have taken their partner’s phones to see content stored on it, including messages and photos.
While a majority of the respondents secure their devices with a passcode, nearly half of them also share these passcodes with someone else. Nearly 70 per cent of them reported having to change their passcodes after a breakup.
Wahab Yusoff, McAfee’s Vice President of South Asia, said, “It’s always a risk to share passwords with others, yet people still do. Not surprisingly then, we hear of stories where private and intimate content leaks out.”
In Singapore, there have been recent cases of people being jailed for distributed intimate content after a breakup.
Earlier this year, a financial planner was sentenced to 10 weeks’ jail for uploading obscene videos of his ex-girlfriend onto a pornography site. Last year, a lecturer from the Institute of Technical Education was sentenced to 3 weeks’ jail for sending his ex-girlfriend’s naked photos to her school and parents.
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