Acting in a professional and ethical manner encourages business units to ensure that actions to protect privacy are performed in a reliable, consistent, responsible and effective manner. Some business people say that privacy protection can be considered a source of competitive advantage. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fosters a privacy-positive culture development to provide a positive privacy protection influence on the Internet users\u27 behaviors. GDPR mostly focuses on a framework of activities of business organizations and does not emphasize the role of the Internet users, whose reputation and positive image are exposed. Therefore, the paper aims to discuss hazard tolerance and resilience in the context of privacy by design approach development. The survey on usage of mobile devices and web services is the basis for the discussion. The exemplar survey reveals students\u27 resilience to new media impact on their privacy
