President Barack Obama’s big NSA statement Friday apparently didn’t do much to sway public opinion on the security agency’s data gathering practices, according to Pew Research Center findings. 

Half of those surveyed by Pew Research and USA Today, said they heard nothing about the changes the president proposed and 41 percent said they heard just a bit about them.  Among other things, Obama proposed curbing the ability of intelligence agencies to access phone records as well as moving that collected data out of the hands of the government. And he said that even data collected abroad about non-Americans should be deleted after a predetermined period and its use be limited to specific counter-terrorism and cybersecurity applications. 

Of the 1,504 adults surveyed between January 15 and 19, approval of the data collection program disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has fallen to 40 percent now down from 50 percent approval…