… Fully 61 percent of Americans said they approve of renewing the Patriot Act’s provisions to allow for continued collection of phone data, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
But, just months ago, a Pew Research Center survey showed that two-thirds of Americans said they believed there aren’t “adequate limits” on the kinds of phone and Internet data the government can collect from them. …
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Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR