According to a new national survey by the Pew Research Center and USA Today, President Barack Obama’s NSA reform speech last week had little impact on an already skeptical public. Half of the 1,504 adults surveyed between January 15 and 19 had not heard of Obama’s speech and nearly three-quarters of those who heard the speech believed it would have little impact on people’s privacy. Meanwhile, PBS Newshour reports on reaction from the tech industry. “What the president was doing in his speech didn’t go far enough,” said Christian Dawson of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, adding, “if we don’t go out with bold language to convince the world that we do believe in privacy standards, we are going to see an EU Internet and a U.S. Internet and a China Internet…” Center for Democracy & Technology President Nuala O’Connor, CIPP/US, CIPP/G, said Obama should have been more “clear about the specifics of how he plans to end bulk data collection as we know it.”
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