There is a definitely a vocal bunch that are very interested in
maintaining privacy protections, but how the public as a whole feels
is less clear. My guess is the people as a whole just aren't aware
enough to have an opinion. I'd like to see a study done where the
participants are asked how much money they would want to voluntarily
give up various bits of personal info. Perhaps something like FreePC
launched on a more massive scale would tell us, also.
But it's probably not sound to look at how the U.S. government views
privacy and extrapolate that to the U.S. population as a whole.
-- Manoj Kasichainula - manojk at io dot com - http://www.io.com/~manojk/ "Gravity is a harsh mistress." - The Tick