Widespread Internet surveillance by America’s National Security Agency (NSA) has been further exposed by two new developments: the analysis of leaked NSA surveillance reports published by the Washington Post and the analysis of XKeyscore targeting code published by German public television. Coverage of these stories is unlikely to reassure the growing number of Internet users who say they are inclined to reduce their online engagement due to the activities of the NSA.
Reducing and/or modifying Internet activity in the wake of the NSA revelations instigated by Edward Snowden is a phenomenon we have documented on several occasions on We Live Security. In theHarris poll that we commissioned and earlier studies, we found that as many as 46% of people who were aware of the Snowden/NSA revelations had changed their online behavior in response to mass online surveillance. About a quarter of “NSA aware” people had reduced their online shopping and banking, as well as their use of email. I discussed these issues in a couple of podcasts, hereand here.
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