A study of ten years in Sweden shows popular support slump for mass surveillance even if necessary to protect national security. During a period of ten years, public opinion has changed ten points, and people who think that wiretapping and surveillance are never justified are rising. Overall, only 12% of Internet support mass surveillance.
The study (in Swedish) highlights some interesting points. About 70% of people think that the wiretap phones is acceptable in exceptional cases . However, as we all know, this is not what, AOS now happening; each phone is always on listening today, or at least it could be. Over the past decade, the group, saying this kind of wiretapping is acceptable Äúalways at dropped from 25% to 15%.
It, AOS notable here that a growing number of people consider the wiretap private communications never be acceptable, that is, not even in exceptional cases (as with a formal suspect).
There, AOS also a separate study entry if respondents found the monitoring of acceptable Internet traffic. There is much less support for that to wiretap phones, which illustrates the increased sensitivity of what happens online: 24% say it is never acceptable ( not even with a formal suspect), 54% in exceptional cases, and 12% say it is still acceptable.
support for mass surveillance of the Internet, according to the Swedish study, is 12%. In other words, mass surveillance is less popular than genital herpes, according to the Gallup figures.
It remains to be seen if those in power insist on wiretapping the entire population. It, AOS a structure that has already been built, so it requires effort to demolish, but little has been so unpopular in history as a government that clearly showed distrust in their own electorate.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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