What do they think of the USA PATRIOT Act?

My friends? That's it's an Orwellian nightmare designed to legitimize encroachment in everyone's basic freedoms in the name of protecting the U.S. from a nebulous exaggerated threat.

The average American? Who knows?

But in any case, even the most political informed of my friends wouldn't know what H.R.3162 is without a Google search, nor would they remember the number even if news articles referred to it constantly that way. Section 215 is mentioned all the time and I still need to think every time whether it is the "keep a record of everyone you call" section, the "spy on your web browsing" section or the "force companies to secretly spy for the government" section. Short of being a lawyer I don't see how I would remember H.R.3162 better than "PATRIOT Act".

My problem with the PATRIOT Act and with this (USA Freedom Act) is that the name is completely uninformative and seems designed only to get acceptance from people who have no idea what it is. Why not call it the USA Less Spying Act?