The Tradeoff Fallacy: How Marketers Are Misrepresenting American Consumers and Opening Them Up to Exploitation

New Annenberg survey results indicate that marketers are misrepresenting a large majority of Americans by claiming that Americans give out information about themselves as a tradeoff for benefits they receive. To the contrary, the survey reveals most Americans do not believe that ‘data for discounts’ is a square deal. CONT. […] Read more »

Fox News Poll: 65% believe NSA program prevented terrorist attacks in U.S.

Two-thirds of American voters believe the National Security Agency’s surveillance program has prevented terrorist attacks. At the same time, most lack trust in both the federal government — and phone companies — to protect their private information. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »

Rand Paul’s Risky Politics

Politics is always a risky business, with the odds of success the steepest for anyone running for president. So many factors have to line up just right to capture a nomination, and even then, the chances of winning the general election are roughly 50-50. But Sen. Rand Paul’s approach to […] Read more »

Americans Say They Want The Patriot Act Renewed … But Do They, Really?

… 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 […] Read more »