Most Americans unwilling to give up privacy to thwart attacks: poll


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 06 Apr 2017

FILE PHOTO: A businessman sits on a bench looking over his mobile phone in downtown San Francisco, California February 4, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake

WASHINGTON: A majority of Americans are unwilling to share their personal e-mails, text messages, phone calls and records of online activity with US counter-terrorism investigators – even to help foil terror plots, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released. 

The poll showed Americans were more reluctant to share personal information than when the poll last asked the question four years ago. 

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