Survey: Americans Still Trust Government More Than Tech Companies
Given revelations of widespread clandestined data collection by the National Security Agency, you’d think the U.S. government would have a PR problem. But that’s nothing compared to the tech companies that provided data to the NSA, according to a new study of smart phone users in the U.S.
uSamp, a company that conducts surveys via mobile phones asked 850 people in July who they trust more with their personal data, the U.S. government or leading tech companies. The result: Uncle Sam performed far better than Google, Facebook, Microsoft or Twitter.
“Largely we think that the government has the most brand trust,” uSamp’s VP-product innovation Justin Wheeler said. “People just weren’t overly concerned with government overreach.”
