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Most Americans Support Phone Tracking But Are Against Email Spying: Pew

More than half of Americans (52%) don't want the government reading their emails in the name of fighting terrorism, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center. This is up from 47 percent which opposed having their emails read by the government back in 2002. While most Americans would like to keep their emails private, 56 percent of Americans don't mind the NSA collecting telephone metadata as a way to investigate terrorist threats. Only 41 percent find this practice unacceptable. 

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