Americans Have More Muted Concerns about Government Monitoring of their Own Digital Behavior % of U.S. adults who say they are *very/ 'somewhat" or *not very/ not at all concerned" about g overnment they surveillance of their own data and electronic communications
About half of Americans (52%) expressed worry about surveillance programs in 2014 and 2015, but they had more muted concerns about surveillance of their own data. Roughly four-in-ten said they were somewhat or very concerned about government monitoring of their activity on search engines, email messages and cellphones. Roughly three-in-ten expressed the same amount of concern over monitoring of their activity on social media and mobile apps.
Americans Have More Muted Concerns about  | Government Monitoring of their Own Digital Behavior  | % of U.S. adults who say they are *very/ 'somewhat" or *not very/ not at all  | concerned" about g overnment they surveillance of their own data and electronic  | communications  | Very/somewhat conce med  | Not very) "notatall concerned  | Not ap plicable  | 54  | 53  | 49  | 39  | 38  | 37  | 29  | 19  | 19  | Ema i messa ges Search engines Cell phones  | Socia me dia  | Mobile apps  | Source: Survey 0f475U.S. adults on GiK panel November 26, 2014-January3, 2015.,  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 