The share of Americans who say they are very or somewhat concerned about government use of people’s data has increased from 64% in 2019 to 71% today. Two-thirds (67%) of adults say they understand little to nothing about what companies are doing with their personal data, up from 59%.
They can look at EU for inspiration about privacy. They're pretty tough when it comes to data protection, at least their policies are, not sure about enforcement.
That last bit is correct. The privacy commissioners are under-resourced and a large number of businesses are not actually compliant with the GDPR. Only a few highly visible infractions get addressed, and even with those the final result is not fixing the infractions and paying the fine; usually a small payment is made along with an agreement that the party will behave better in the future.
Great numbers, unfortunately most of those people are doing jack, and shit about it.
Example: I have a network security friend in his 40's, who can't be bothered with these issues because "I want the convenience". I mean, this is right up his technical alley and he's too lazy to do anything about it.
This is all rather meaningless because we don't know the demographics of those who answered: 5,101 US adults of what generations?
I'm pretty sure younger generations aren't nearly as concerned about privacy as older folks who grew up before Big Data became the dystopian thing it is today (statistically that is, that's not to say there aren't privacy-conscious youngsters or recklless data-sharing old folks).
This survey looks like it was mostly answered by gen-Xers.