NEWSMAX: … Following the attacks in France this month and the growing threat of the Islamic State in the past 12 months, the public chooses security over privacy by 63 percent to 32 percent, The Washington Post-ABC News poll finds.
The figures show a 6 percent increase from the 57 percent last year, when Americans became alarmed by the revelations from fugitive Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency was collecting mass phone and Internet data on the public.
In the new poll, there was very little difference on the privacy issue between Democratic and Republican voters, with around 7 out of 10 Americans from both parties believing that preventing terror threats is more important than personal privacy… (more)
