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After reading this thread I went to Gizmodo to check see what's there. And what did I find as the latest listing?
Americans Value Privacy But Don't Trust Tech Companies To Provide It
Americans want privacy as much as ever—but in the digital age, most of us think it’s a lost cause. That, at least, is the depressing takeaway from a new Pew report, which shows that our faith in digital service providers (and ourselves) to protect our data is abysmally low.
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The report summarizes the results of two surveys of adults age 18-50+, conducted in late 2014 and early 2015 . While more than 9 in 10 adults said controlling who gains access to their private information is important, over 60 percent of survey respondents felt they had little control over the records maintained by social media sites, search engine providers, and online video sites. Also, that the government is basically watching them all the time:Americans feel privacy is important in their daily lives in a number of essential ways. Yet, they have a pervasive sense that they are under surveillance when in public and very few feel they have a great deal of control over the data that is collected about them and how it is used.