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FUTURE BRIEF POLL RESULTS:

The following questions were submitted by Future Brief readers. The poll itself, given to a group of more than 2000 people, was conducted by Zogby International, an opinion research firm, on December 15-16, 2005. Learn more about the polling and how you can submit questions.

QUESTION: What effect do you feel that emerging technologies are having upon personal privacy?

RESULTS:

-Greatly increasing privacy 2%

-Somewhat increasing privacy 5%

-No effect—we have exactly the same level of privacy that we did ten years ago. 7%

-Somewhat decreasing personal privacy 44%

-Greatly decreasing privacy 40%

-Not sure/other 2%

Overall, 7% of respondants felt that emerging technologies are increasing their sense of personal privacy, while 84% of respondants felt that emerging technologies are reducing their personal privacy. 9% of respondants either felt that emerging technologies were not having any effect on their level of privacy or simply had no opinion.

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