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Americans tune out NSA spying debate, divided over Snowden’s motives: survey

A man joins a protest outside Capitol Hill in October last year, during the House of Representatives' inquiry into NSA powers. Photo: AFP

Although Edward Snowden’s revelations last year of widespread US surveillance has generated headlines and triggered a rethink on data privacy around the world, the American public has paid scant attention to the government’s policy changes in its aftermath.

In the latest study to support this trend, a Pew Research Centre poll has shown that half of the public said they heard nothing at all about President Barack Obama’s speech last week on new restrictions to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying programmes, the McClatchy-Tribune reported on Tuesday.