In an opinion piece for Computerworld, Minnesota Privacy Consultants’ Jay Cline, CIPP/US, discusses a “growing cultural divide on privacy” as indicated by the Edward Snowden revelations. A poll taken in May before the Snowden revelations revealed a 30-percent level of trust in the U.S. government. That number dropped to 19 percent four months later. “If we don’t trust our institutions, especially the government, they can’t work for us,” Cline writes. In the same poll, 70 percent of American adults said they would be more trusting of government surveillance if they were told how their personal information is protected, indicating transparency may be what is needed to prevent a grassroots movement toward “a more draconian legislative solution.”
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