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    Privacy in 2025: Experts’ Predictions

    We canvassed thousands of experts to ask them to predict the future of privacy in America and found they were divided on whether or not a secure, trusted privacy-rights infrastructure would be in place by 2025.

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    Discussion

    The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of conducting experience sampling method surveys with a nationally representative survey panel, as well as the costs and benefits of doing so using an app vs. web-based data collection. The first research question was whether panelists would respond to an experience sampling method study given […]

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    Introduction

    With the proliferation of cheap and portable storage of digital data and advances in the speed and availability of communications networks for moving bits around, data have become important in nearly every corner of society. Anything that can be digitized can be shared and data that can be shared can often be transformed — sometimes […]

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    Most View the CDC Favorably; VA’s Image Slips

    Survey Report The public continues to express positive views of many agencies of the federal government, even though overall trust in government is near historic lows. Large majorities express favorable views of such government agencies as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NASA and the Defense Department. In fact, favorable opinions surpass unfavorable […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted February 5-8, 2015 among a national sample of 1,003 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in the continental United States (501 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 502 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 300 who had no landline […]

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    Public Trust in Government: 1958-2014

    Public trust in the government remains near historic lows, although somewhat higher than during the October 2013 government shutdown. In a survey conducted in February 2014, 24% said they trust the government in Washington always or most of the time. Explore public attitudes towards the federal government over time and compare the data with other […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted February 5-8, 2015 among a national sample of 1,003 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in the continental United States (501 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 502 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 300 who had no landline […]

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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 […]