Many Americans are more wary about exposing their personal information to tech companies following revelations about their cooperation with government surveillance. It’s not that Americans believe surveillance is wrong — in fact, most believe it’s necessary to thwart terrorist acts, a recent survey suggests. However, they also believe better regulation of those activities is needed.

The steady stream of reports on government surveillance of Americans has taken a toll on the image of high-tech companies, according to a Harris poll.

More than two-thirds of Americans (67 percent) feel technology companies violate their users’ trust by helping the government spy on its citizens, suggests the poll of 2,000 consumers, which was sponsored by ESET. Sixty percent of respondents said they were less trusting of those companies because of their involvement in government surveillance.

“Technology companies have something to be seriously concerned about,” ESET Security Evangelist Stephen Cobb told TechNewsWorld. “That’s going to be especially true for those selling into the IT infrastructure — people in switches and routers and cloud services. All of them will face a longer selling cycle.”

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