Americans are now more concerned about privacy than terrorism. That’s according to a new poll by Pew Research, Reuters reports. Meanwhile, in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders earlier this week, a judge from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court revealed that “no telephone company or other service provider has ever resisted” court orders under the USA PATRIOT Act’s Section 215. U.S. News & World Report says National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance is “just one of a growing number of programs in which government is pressing forward with new technology to compile immense amounts of new data on individuals,” and The Guardian reports on the program used by the NSA to gather intelligence from the Internet.
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