McAfee software finds 81% of UK parents don’t use parental controls – but 2008 EU survey finds that 85% of UK parents do!

McAfee has released a new survey of UK parents that finds that “81% of parents do not turn on parental controls.”  This is 180 degrees opposite from a European Union survey released in December 2008, which found that 85% of UK parents were using some form of parental controls. 

 See the table below on page 48 of the report, which lists UK list as 52% using filtering and monitoring; 26% filtering software only, and 7% using only monitoring software – for a total of 85%.   How does one explain this?

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