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 than 3 in 10 adults consider warrantless government analysis of internet activities and communications an acceptable means for monitoring threats against the United States. There is more support for public surveillance like the installation of cameras in public places to watch for suspicious activity, but other measures are less popular including random searches at airports involving full-body scans or pat downs or using ethnic or racial profiling to determine who gets screened. CONTINUED
AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
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