[ti:Americans Have Little Trust In Online Security]
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[00:00.04]Americans do not believe their personal information
[00:04.04]is safe online, suggests findings from a new poll.
[00:09.28]They also are not satisfied
[00:12.12]with the federal government's efforts
[00:14.44]to protect such information.
[00:17.88]The Associated Press-NORC Center
[00:21.32]for Public Affairs Research and MeriTalk did the polling.
[00:27.92]It found that 64 percent of Americans
[00:31.76]say their social media activity is not secure.
[00:37.00]About as many have the same safety concerns
[00:41.20]about online information that shares their physical location.
[00:47.60]Half of Americans also believe
[00:50.64]their private text messages are not secure.
[00:55.36]They are not just concerned.
[00:57.92]They want the federal government to do something about it.
[01:02.92]Almost 75 percent of Americans
[01:06.88]say they support creating laws
[01:10.28]for how companies can collect, use and share personal data.
[01:18.04]Jennifer Benz is the head of the AP-NORC Center.
[01:24.52]"What is surprising to me is that there is a great deal of support
[01:29.48]for more government action to protect data privacy," she said.
[01:36.20]But after years of failed efforts to create stronger data privacy laws,
[01:42.00]Americans do not trust the government to fix the problem.
[01:47.68]A majority of those who took part in the poll
[01:51.24]said they have more trust in private companies
[01:55.40]than the federal government to address security and privacy issues.
[02:02.60]This comes even after years of hacks of U.S. corporations
[02:07.32]that shared the personal information of millions of people around the world.
[02:13.68]"I feel there is little to no security whatsoever," said Sarah Blick.
[02:20.16]She is a professor at Kenyon College in Ohio.
[02:25.16]Officials at the college told Blick earlier this year
[02:29.80]that someone had used her identity
[02:32.28]to seek unemployment insurance money.
[02:36.52]Such fraud has greatly increased since the pandemic began.
[02:42.68]The poll answers showed that about 71 percent of Americans
[02:47.92]believe that individuals' data privacy
[02:51.04]should be treated as a national security issue.
[02:55.76]But only 23 percent are satisfied
[02:59.08]in the federal government's current efforts.
[03:03.16]Terri Carver is a Republican Party state lawmaker in Colorado
[03:09.32]and the writer of a data privacy bill
[03:12.88]that will take effect there in 2023.
[03:18.20]The law follows similar measures
[03:21.12]passed in California and Virginia, and gives people
[03:25.76]the right to find and delete personal information.
[03:31.24]Colorado's law also permits people to opt out
[03:36.00]of having their data tracked and sold.
[03:39.88]Facebook and other companies opposed the bill.
[03:44.96]"There's great frustration that individuals have
[03:49.20]that they don't have the tools and the legal support
[03:53.12]to establish any kind of effective control
[03:57.00]over their personal data," Carver said.
[04:01.60]She hopes the efforts by Colorado and other states
[04:05.88]push Congress to make national protections.
[04:10.68]The poll showed that protecting personal information online
[04:15.32]is "an area where people do see a direct role in government," Benz said.
[04:23.00]I'm Dan Novak. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM