56% of Americans Concerned Over Privacy Rights and NSA Surveillance
More than a month after infamous leak about the National Security Agency’s surveillance and data-gathering programs, 56 percent of Americans say they’re more worried the U.S. will go too far in violating privacy rights, an NBC News/Wall Street Journalpoll reports.
This is an about-face from the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when 55 percent of Americans worried that the U.S. wouldn’t go far enough in monitoring potential terrorists who live in the states, an NBC News article says.