86 percent of Internet users think Internet companies should ask people for permission to use personal information whenever people give it to them.
85 percent of Internet users seeking health information worry insurance companies might raise their rates or deny them coverage because of the health Web sites they visited.
60 percent of Americans say public access to government records is "crucial" to having good government.
60 percent of Americans also say they are "very concerned" about personal privacy.
78 percent of major U.S. companies keep tabs on employees by checking their e-mail, Internet, phone calls, computer files or by videotaping them at work.
Pew Internet survey, May/June 2000, of 2,117 Americans.
April opinion poll released by First Amendment Center and American Society of Newspaper Editors.
January American Management Association's annual survey on workplace monitoring and surveillance of 1,627 companies.
