Half of Americans heard ‘nothing at all’ about the president’s NSA speech

Public opinion polling released by the Pew Research Center shows a majority of Americans disapprove of "the government's collection of telephone and Internet data as part of anti-terrorism efforts."

Forty percent of those surveyed approved of the government's actions, down from 48 percent when leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed details of the program in June 2013. But that disapproval doesn't seem to indicate that reforming NSA surveillance is high on the agenda of everyone. In fact, the same Pew poll showed that half of Americans had heard "nothing at all" about the president's NSA speech. So even though only 21 percent of those who had heard about the changes announced in the speech thought they would increase privacy, many Americans were entirely unaware of what those changes were or were able to make informed decisions about their possible privacy implications.