Public Perspectives on Government Information Technology: A Review of Survey Research on Privacy, Civil Liberties and the Democratic Process

摘要

The primary purpose of the report is to review survey research on public attitudes toward governmental uses of new communication, computing, and information technologies. Particular attention is paid to the implications of governmental information technologies for civil liberties and democratic processes. A secondary purpose is to identify generalizations about the public's views toward these issues that tend to be supported or refuted across surveys. A third and final purpose is to speculate on possible public reactions to governmental uses of emerging technologies which have implications for privacy or other civil liberties.