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    Privacy and Information Sharing: Scenarios

    Office surveillance cameras Several co-workers of yours have recently had personal belongings stolen from your workplace, and the company is planning to install high-resolution security cameras that use facial recognition technology to help identify the thieves and make the workplace more secure. The footage would stay on file as long as the company wishes to […]

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    Publics Worldwide Support Right to Criticize Their Government

    Publics Worldwide Support Right to Criticize Their Government People should be able to make statements that __ publicly Country Criticize the government’s policies Are offensive to minority groups Are offensive to your religion and beliefs Are sexually explicit Call for violent protests U.S. 95% 67% 77% 52% 44% Canada 93% 52% 64% 37% 29% France […]

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    Support for Press Freedom, but Not on Sensitive National Security Issues

    Media organizations should be able to publish information about … Country Large political protests in our country Economic issues that might destabilize the country’s economy Sensitive issues related to national security U.S. 86% 81% 35% Canada 89% 81% 37% France 78% 77% 46% Germany 87% 72% 48% Italy 87% 74% 58% Poland 90% 78% 76% […]

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    Broad Support for Fundamental Democratic Principles

    Broad Support for Fundamental Democratic Principles Very important that __ in our country Country People can practice religion freely Women have same rights as men Honest elections held regularly w/ choice of at least two parties People can say what they want w/o censorship Media can report news w/o censorship People can use the internet […]

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    Event: Is the American Public Becoming Less Religious?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmNF813ZzHk Is the American public becoming less religious? Yes, at least by some key measures of what it means to be a religious person. An extensive new survey of more than 35,000 U.S. adults finds that the percentages who say they believe in God, pray daily and regularly go to church or other religious services […]

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    Google Play Store Apps Permissions

    There are 1,041,336 apps in this dataset. In all, 165 permissions allow access to device hardware and 70 allow access to various types of user information. Below on the left is a selection of 18 popular apps from the Google Play Store. Clicking an app icon will show the list of permissions required by each […]

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    Video: How the U.S. Public Became Less Religious

    Highlights from the Pew Research report “U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious.” There has been a modest drop in overall rates of belief in God and participation in religious practices. But religiously affiliated Americans are as observant as before.