U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan has publicly stated that 25 percent of people in the U.S. have changed their email and phone habits due to the collection of data allowed by the Patriot Act. Politifact has
fact checked this statement with The Pew Foundation, who did the report. The report found that people had changed their use of an individual technology "a great deal" or
"somewhat," but the amount differed across channels. For instance, 17 percent of people changed their search behavior and 13 percent changed their text messaging behavior. The 25
percent figure comes from those people who have changed at least one of the above on the list of six channels.Read the whole story at JS Online »
