These are the topline results of a YouGov/Huffington Post survey of 1000 US adults interviewed June 1-3, 2015 on the surveillance. The margin of error is 4.1%.
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How concerned are you about government surveillance of Americans’ data and electronic communications?
Very concerned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31%
Somewhat concerned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37%
Not very concerned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21%
Not at all concerned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5%
Thinking about the balance between national security and individuals’ privacy, do you think American policy currently:
Places too much importance on security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38%
Places too much importance on privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15%
Gets the balance about right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24%
As you may remember, a government contractor named Edward Snowden leaked topsecret information about government surveillance programs to the media. Do you think he did the right or wrong thing?
Snowden did the right thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40%
Snowden did the wrong thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27%
As you may know, some provisions of the law allowing the National Security Administration, or NSA, to collect and analyze information on the phone calls of most Americans in order to locate suspected terrorists expired on Monday, June 1. Do you think Congress should:
Renew the law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37%
Not renew the law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24%
Who would you be more likely to vote for?
A presidential candidate who wants to place more limits on government surveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40%
A presidential candidate who DOESN’T want to place more limits on government surveillance . . . . . . . . . . 16%
A candidate’s opinion on surveillance doesn’t matter to me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26%
