By Rebecca J. Rosen
We are now in, roughly, week 11 of what has become a more or less steady stream of revelations about the NSA’s efforts to collect and analyze huge amounts of the data people create every day online.
Given what is now known, are the disclosures of the NSA’s programs reshaping how people use the Internet? If so, this is a phenomenon that could in turn reshape, in a very basic way, what the Internet is — what information it holds.
A new report from the analytics firm Annalect finds what it calls “substantial” changes in Americans’ behavior and attitudes since June. Its survey of 2,100 adults, which was conducted from May to July, found that the percent of people who described themselves as either “concerned” or “very concerned” about online privacy jumped by 20 percent, from 48 percent to 57 percent.