Survey results

What is your current occupation?

275 participants, 4 didn’t respond

How do you prefer people communicate with you?

275 participants, 2 didn’t respond

Do you use social media?

275 participants,

Majority of participants are using this type of media.

The reminder are using one or less of other types of media

Who do you trust with your private information?

275 participants, results from 266 responses 

Are you familiar with the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance protocols?

 Based on 268 responses

Your friend would like to have a discussion about the National Security Agency (NSA) with you. What would be your preferred method of communication?

Based on 247 responses

Rate from most preferred (5) to least preferred (1)

                                (1)                 (2)               (3)                  (4)                 (5)

Do you believe that currently the rights of the individual are protected as they relate to keeping personal communication private?

Based on 272 responses

Do you believe that the monitoring of online communication can be an effective tool in the fight against terrorism or can enhance national security?

Based on 272 responses 

Article Four, Section Four of the Constitution states that the “United States shall guarantee to every State a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion.” In other words, even if the federal government chose to exercise no other power, it must, under the Constitution, provide for the common defense. Do you believe the NSA or other national security organizations should have the right to access and disseminate information about you gathered from your private Internet communication (photos, writings, websites, or material that is privately posted) without a court order?              

Based on 261 responses

In your opinion, should information gathering from private Internet communication be limited to matters involving national security?

Based on 269 responses 

Do you agree that you or others should be willing to sacrifice some of your online personal privacy in return for making the world safer from terrorism and other threats to national security?

Based on 258 responses 

Would knowing that all phone and Internet activity is being monitored for terrorism or threats against national security make you feel safer?

Based on 267 responses 

Do you feel that major corporations involved in Internet communication should  support government efforts to monitor communication, or they should protect the privacy of the individual?

Based on 269 responses

Do you believe that we should support government efforts to monitor private communication of US citizens suspected of being a threat to US safety?

 Based on 268 responses

Do you believe that we should support government efforts to monitor communication when there is a court order to do so?

Based on 266 responses

The government should be allowed to access the Internet to track the location of terrorists and others who pose a threat to national security.

 Based on 268 responses

In times of national emergency should the government be allowed to monitor all Internet communication?

Based on 268 responses

In December 2005, The New York Times published an article that described a surveillance program of warrantless domestic wiretapping ordered by the Bush administration and carried out by the National Security Agency in cooperation with major telecommunications companies since 2002 (a subsequent Bloomberg article suggested  that this may have already begun by June 2000.)  Many critics have asserted that the Administration's warrant­free surveillance program is a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution against warrantless search.

Based on 269 responses

Do you agree or disagree?

PRISM is a clandestine mass electronic surveillance data mining program known to have been operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) since 2007.  Documents indicate that PRISM is "the number one source of raw intelligence used for NSA analytic reports", and it accounts for 91% of the NSA's Internet traffic acquired under  FISA section 702 authority." It was revealed that the FISA Court had been ordering a subsidiary of telecommunications company Verizon Communications to turn over to the  NSA logs tracking all of its customers' telephone calls on an ongoing daily basis.

Based on 261 responses

Do you agree that Verizon Communications should turn over these logs to the NSA?

Do you believe the government should have more power or less power to monitor private information and communication on the Internet?

Based on 256 responses

Do you feel that your privacy is being compromised by the NSA surveillance protocols?

Based on 265 responses

When it comes to personal information or communication via the Internet what do you consider more important: security or privacy?

Based on 255 responses

Do you feel that the NSA privacy protocols are vital for the security of the United States of America?

Based on 264 responses

Privacy protections for online data storage can vary dramatically based on how long they have been stored online. Please choose what level of privacy you expect in each of the following scenarios:

Based on 252 responses

A military response could be justified to stop persistent cyber attacks against the U.S. infrastructure.

Based on 262 responses

The public has a lawful right to know government strategies aimed at improving national security.

Based on 263 responses

How do you feel about the privacy of your online communications? Please evaluate the following statements.

Question 1: 126 responses

Question 2: 133 responses

Question 3: 117 responses

Please choose what level of privacy you expect in each of the following scenarios.

Question 1: based on 123 responses

Question 2: based on 122 responses

Question 3: based on 122 responses

How strongly do you feel about the following statements?

Question 1: based on 260 responses

Question 2: based on 257 responses