The Government and Our Devices
Mark Talusan
Do you own a smartphone?
| Yes | 23 | 100% |
| No | 0 | 0% |
How often do you use your smartphone? Every hour 15 | 65%
When bored 8 | 35%
Contacted or 0 | 0% contacting
Not often 0 | 0%
What do you mostly use your smartphone for? Games 3 | 13%
Social Media 11 | 48%
| Call/Text | 6 | 26% |
| 1 | 4% | |
| News | 2 | 9% |
Are you comfortable with the government asking to seize and search your phone?
| Yes | 14 | 61% |
| No | 9 | 39% |
Are you comfortable with the government inconspicuously snooping around your phone through backdoors or hacking?
| Yes | 4 | 17% |
| No | 19 | 83% |
Are you comfortable with the idea that the government tracks wherever you go with your phone?
| Yes | 8 | 35% |
| No | 15 | 65% |
Do you trust the government in everything they do with your phone? (Tracking, searching, accessing, etc.)
| Yes | 4 | 17% |
| No | 19 | 83% |
Do you believe that phone manufacturers should grant special permissions for the government to access and trace any phone?
| Yes | 6 | 26% |
| No | 17 | 74% |
If the latest iPhone gave special permissions to the government and you were given this phone, would you take it?
| Yes | 10 | 43% |
| No | 13 | 57% |
Congress recently voted to let internet service providers like AT&T sell your browsing habits 3rd parties. Are you comfortable that your web activity and search history could be in the hands of people you don’t know?
| Yes | 4 | 17% |
| No | 19 | 83% |
| Do you own a social media account? | ||||
| Yes | 23 | 100% | ||
| No | 0 | 0% | ||
| How | often do you post or browse on it? | |||
| As often as possible | 1 | 4% | ||
| Daily | 12 | 53% | ||
| A few times a week | 6 | 26% | ||
| Never | 4 | 17% | ||
Are you comfortable with the government having immediate access to your information via social media?
| Yes | 15 | 65% |
| No | 8 | 35% |
In 2012, Facebook handed over thousands of users’ private information to law enforcement. Are you comfortable with this?
| Yes | 16 | 70% |
| No | 7 | 30% |
Through NSA’s XKeyscore they are able to collect private citizen’s emails, files sent, search history, etc. Are you comfortable that your private info is potentially collected?
| Yes | 6 | 26% |
| No | 17 | 74% |
The government states that “programs that collect and analyze location data are lawful and intended strictly to develop intelligence about foreign targets. Do you believe this statement?
| Yes | 8 | 35% |
| No | 15 | 65% |
Do you own a personal email account?
| Yes | 23 | 100% |
| No | 0 | 0% |
How often do you use your email account?
| Daily | 7 | 30% |
| 5 times a week | 0 | 0% |
| Every other day | 5 | 22% |
| Once a week | 2 | 9% |
| Not at all often | 9 | 39% |
Do you believe that email services should grant special permission to the government it access anyone’s emails if they deem it necessary?
| Yes | 19 | 83% |
| No | 4 | 17% |
Do you believe that the mass surveillance of America is necessary to protect it from domestic and foreign dangers?
| Yes | 12 | 52% |
| No | 11 | 48% |
Do you believe that the government should transgress the 4th amendment (privacy) to keep America safe?
| Yes | 5 | 22% |
| No | 18 | 78% |
