A new national survey finds Americans across party lines overwhelmingly favor strong financial privacy protections and opt-in data consent.

WASHINGTON — July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Financial privacy is one of the few issues that unites Americans across party lines, according to a new national survey of 2,200 U.S. adults. Released today by the Cornell Brooks School Tech Policy Institute (BTPI), Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) and Fedi, the report “How Americans Think About Financial Privacy,” finds that Republicans, Democrats and Independents hold remarkably similar views on financial privacy, differing by only a few points on nearly every question about who should be able to access their financial information.

The pattern holds across the survey. On question after question, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents landed within a few points of one another:

• Privacy over convenience: 59% of Republicans, 61% of Democrats, and 57% of Independents chose privacy when forced to choose.
• Privacy over crime prevention: 50%, 51%, and 51%, respectively — a one-point spread.
• Limiting access to themselves and their bank: 81% of Republicans, 77% of Democrats, and 78% of Independents.
• An opt-in standard — data never collected, or collected only with explicit consent: 70% of Republicans, 66% of Democrats, and 68% of Independents.

Additionally, just 11% of Republicans, 14% of Democrats, and 13% of Independents would accept any government access to their financial data. At a moment when little in American politics commands cross-party agreement, financial privacy is an exception.

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