Americans Accept Big Brother, But Not His BS

by Anthony Sibley (AJ) on Jul 27, 2013 | Views: 262 | Score: 0

	Agree	Disagree
Believe Government Only Collecting 'Metadata'	18	63
Approve of Government Data Collection	50	44
Program Has Helped Prevent Terrorism	53	41
Data Collected for Other Purposes Outside Fighting Terrorism	70	22

Views on Government Surveillance Program

Percentage of Americans

Sources: people-press.org, people-press.org

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Anthony Sibley (AJ) on Jul 27, 2013 1:43 PM said:

While, overall, Americans are inclined to allow government privacy violations in the interest of preventing terrorism, we do not trust the government for self-regulation. Few Americans believe the government assertion that only metadata, like telephone numbers and email addresses, versus actual content, are being collected, or that the information is only being utilized for anti-terrorism efforts.