'97% of Islanders confirm it’s important organisations keep their personal information safe and secure*'

'97% of Islanders confirm it’s important organisations keep their personal information safe and secure*'

Strong message for organisations as we issue our It’s All About You survey results for 2025.

Our It's All About You survey results for 2025 show Islanders are increasingly placing significant value on their personal information and the importance of feeling empowered, confident and in control of it, as well as wanting to find out more about exercising their personal information rights.

We issue our It’s All About You survey annually to gauge Islanders’ awareness and opinions about data protection and privacy, to help shape our guidance and events.

Other notable findings, based on survey responses from 2022 to 2025, include:

• Based on the survey responses there has been a 34% increase in awareness of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 (by respondents) since 2022.
  
  
• 90% of respondents to our 2025 survey said they were aware of risks around their personal information and concerned about them sometimes, often or every day.
  
  
• Islanders were asked to identify particular types of personal information which would be of concern if lost or shared without permission. Year on year, more than 96% of respondents rated credit and debit card details their highest concern, if they were lost or shared without their permission, followed by passport data, biometric data, ID information and health data.
  
  
• 77% of respondents to the 2025 survey said they would be interested in learning more about their personal information rights.

Jersey Information Commissioner Paul Vane said: “As a fundamental human right, data protection is intrinsically linked to wellbeing, mental health, reducing inequalities and improving living standards. Breaches of personal information can have devastating and life changing consequences for individuals.

Our survey findings send a very clear message to Jersey organisations that they must manage Islanders’ personal information in a fair, lawful and transparent way in line with their obligations under local data protection law. They must be accountable to their staff, customers and themselves for their actions as they handle and process it.

Given the exponential advances and uses of technology, it is critical, now more than ever, that Islanders work together to ensure Jersey maintains the very highest standards of data protection not only for each other, but for those that interact with Jersey. My office provides free guidance and advice for organisations to help them navigate local data protection law and for individuals to help them learn more about their personal information rights and how to protect their personal information. I urge Islanders that need support, to contact us.”

You can find out more about local data protection law and our guidance and resources, as well as book a 30-minute spot at our free, weekly data protection clinic ‘Data Protection Express,’ here on our website.

Designed with small business owners in mind, those booking a spot at our Data Protection Express clinic will benefit from:

• Clear, practical advice about local data protection law.
• The opportunity to ask questions tailored to their business.
• Feeling more confident about their data protection responsibilities.

The first clinic starts on Wednesday 17 September 2025 at 2pm.

*This is a self-selecting survey and the percentages above are representative of those who responded.