Most US adults are wary about using free Wi-Fi when it’s offered at public places such as bookstores, coffee shops and hotels—primarily because of privacy concerns. Nearly half of respondents surveyed in AARP’s July 2016 said they believed that free public Wi-Fi was not very safe, or safe at all for that matter.
Other respondents didn’t quite have these privacy concerns. For example, 39.1% of US adults believed that free public Wi-Fi was somewhat safe to use, and 4.8% felt it was very safe. And there were those that just weren’t sure.
