Survey: Most support encrypted cellphones

The majority of voters in a new survey believe companies like Apple and Google are right to encrypt their devices, preventing the government from gaining access to data stored on them.

According to a new poll of 993 likely presidential voters, 56 percent said people have a right to privacy and oppose a "backdoor" for government to collect information. Another 44 percent said the companies are wrong, asserting the encryption takes away an essential tool for law enforcement. Two research firms -- SKD Knickerbocker and Benenson Strategy Group -- conducted the survey as a joint project, the Beyond the Beltway Insight Initiative.