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    Few Feel that the Government or Advertisers can be Trusted

    Americans’ lack of confidence in communications security is accompanied by low levels of trust in government and advertisers The backdrop for this lack of confidence in communications security is low levels of trust in key sectors that Americans associate with data collection and monitoring. While the surveillance practices of government agencies have been the focus […]

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    Appendix B: Methodology

    Analyses of the trends and characteristics of adults based upon their marital status and marital history are derived from the 2013 American Community Survey (ACS), as well as the 1960 and 1980 Decennial Censuses. All of these data sources produce nationally representative samples of the U.S. population, and are conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. […]

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    Introduction

    In the wake of Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations of widespread government surveillance of Americans’ phone and email records, various news organizations have explored the idea that “privacy is dead.” At the same time, others have suggested that renewed public attention to the topic has meant that privacy is, in fact, “thriving online,” or at the […]

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    Americans’ Perceptions of Privacy are Varied

    The term “privacy” evokes a constellation of concepts in the minds of the American public To better understand how the public thinks about privacy, a representative sample of 607 adults were asked an open-ended question in an online survey: “When you hear the word “privacy,” what comes to mind for you?”[6. numoffset=”7″ A full discussion […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted October 15-20, 2014 among a national sample of 2,003 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (802 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,201 were interviewed on a cell phone, including […]

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    References

    Blumberg, Stephen J. and Julian Luke. 2014. “Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2013.” Washington, D.C.: Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics. July. Gonzalez-Barrera, Ana and Jens Manuel Krogstad. 2014. “U.S. deportations of immigrants reach record high in 2013.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center. […]

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    The American Trends Panel Surveys (ATP) The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by the Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults living in households. Respondents who self-identify as internet users (representing 89% of U.S. adults) participate in the panel via monthly self-administered Web surveys, and those who do not […]

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    Younger Americans’ Reading Habits and Technology Use

    Reading Habits Our previous research on younger Americans’ reading habits has shown that the youngest age groups are significantly more likely than older adults to read books, including print books; reading and research required for schoolwork contributes to this, along with a decline in overall reading rates for adults ages 65 and older. As a […]

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    Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’

    Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms did not provide new outlets for the discussion of the Snowden-NSA revelations. People who thought their social media friends disagreed with them were less likely to discuss the issues in person and online.

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