“Americans make a distinction between government collection of
personal data and private companies collecting personal data
because they understand that private companies are using this
information to sell them things, and the government is using this
information to spy on them,” says Reason-Rupe polling director
Emily Ekins. “And they think that government spying on them is
worse.”
Ekins sat down Reason TV to discuss the portion of the results
from the April Reason-Rupe poll focused on private and government
data collection.
While a 2013 Reason-Rupe poll found that Americans actually
trust the IRS and the NSA to protect their data more than they
trust companies like Facebook to do so, this round of polling dug
deeper and found that people tend to believe that government
agencies are more likely to violate their privacy.
Watch the video above to hear Ekins delve deeper into these
results.
For full poll results, check out reason.com/poll.
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