Last Friday, the Supreme Court issued a decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in the United States. An Economist/YouGov Poll fielded in the four days following the ruling finds that nine in 10 […] Read more »
Americans widely distrust Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with their data
… It’s the rare thing that Americans of all ages and across the political spectrum largely seem to agree on: They don’t trust social media services with their information and they view targeted ads as annoying and invasive, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll. Many Americans use social media […] Read more »
20 years after 9/11, most see some success in efforts against terrorism, but threats remain
In the twenty years since 9/11, most Americans feel the nation’s efforts to reduce terrorism — sometimes referred to as the war on terrorism — have been at least somewhat successful, but that hardly means the threat is gone. They also see today’s terrorism threat in context as, perhaps unfortunately, […] Read more »
Opposition to U.S. Government Surveillance Grows
Americans have been consistently opposed to warrantless surveillance of phone calls and emails of American citizens for monitoring threats against the United States, but opposition to such surveillance outside of the country has increased over the past 10 years. Twenty years after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, less […] Read more »
Pandemic Pollwatch: Civil liberties implications of contact-tracing apps
This is the eighth in a series of weekly papers from GQR summarizing and analyzing all available data on global opinion on COVID-19, with a particular focus on the political implications of global opinion linked to the pandemic. … As a global debate heats up over the civil liberties implications […] Read more »
How Americans see digital privacy issues amid the COVID-19 outbreak
The ongoing coronavirus outbreak has brought privacy and surveillance concerns to the forefront – from hacked video conferencing sessions to proposed government tracking of people’s cellphones as a measure to limit and prevent the spread of the virus. Over the past year, Pew Research Center has surveyed Americans on their […] Read more »