Monday, May 19, 2008

Surveillance Societies

The map and rankings of Europe and other countries in regards to their safeguards and protection of privacy.


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Little surprise to me that the US ranks near the bottom. Canada does considerably better, but it is important to note that we have gotten worse over the last year, which is also no surprise given our governing party. The truly significant thing is that it seems to be part of a pattern. Looking at the table underlying the map, there are a whole host of countries where protection of privacy is decreasing or decaying, and only Slovenia showing any improvement.

We're becoming a much uglier world.