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Even before NSA scandal, US residents were anxious about privacy breaches |
June 13, 2013
Even before bombshell disclosures of the U.S. government’s massive collection of Internet and cellphone data, many U.S. residents were very concerned about privacy violations.
In a survey conducted just days before reports surfaced about widespread data collection by the U.S. National Security Agency, 85 percent of U.S. residents said they were worried about unauthorized access by the government and corporations to personal information like phone records, emails and Web activity.
Two thirds of them feel that they have little or no control over the type of information that is collected and used by those organizations and almost 60 percent said that they are unable to correct inaccurate personal information, according to the 17th Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll that was released Thursday.
The survey was conducted between May 29 and June 2 and reveals that more than 20,000 U.S. residents interviewed are anxious about their privacy.
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