{"id":1030,"date":"2014-06-25T23:27:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T23:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2021-08-02T06:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:21:20","slug":"reduced-acceptance-for-mass-surveillance-and-wiretapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/reduced-acceptance-for-mass-surveillance-and-wiretapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduced Acceptance For Mass Surveillance And Wiretapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

A ten-year study in Sweden shows a sharply falling popular support for mass surveillance, even if necessary to protect national security. Over a ten-year period, opinion has shifted ten points, and people who think that wiretapping and surveillance are never justified are on the rise. Overall, a mere 12% support mass surveillance of the Internet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The study<\/a> (in Swedish) highlights a few interesting points. Roughly 70% of people think that wiretapping of phones is acceptable in exceptional cases<\/em>. However, as we all know, this is not what\u2019s currently happening; every phone is always wiretapped today, or at least, it could be. Over the past ten years, the group saying this kind of wiretapping is \u201calways acceptable\u201d has fallen from 25% to 15%.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s notable here that an increasing amount of people consider wiretapping of private communications to never<\/em> be acceptable, that is, not even in exceptional cases (like with a formal suspect).<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a separate entry in the study whether respondents found surveillance of Internet traffic acceptable. There is a lot less support for this than for wiretapping of phones, which illustrates the increase in sensitivity of what happens online: 24% say that it is never<\/em> acceptable (not even with a formal suspect), 54% in exceptional cases, and 12% say it is always acceptable.<\/p>\n

The support for mass surveillance of the Internet, according to this Swedish study, is a mere 12%. In other words, mass surveillance is less popular than genital herpes, according to Gallup numbers<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether powerholders insist on wiretapping the entire population. It\u2019s a structure that has been built already, so it requires effort to tear down, but few things have been so unpopular throughout history as a government that showed clear distrust in their own electorate.<\/p>\n

Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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