U.S. privacy protection downgraded to ‘Endemic Surveillance Society'

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In the recently released annual survey of worldwide privacy rights by Privacy International and EPIC, the United States has been downgraded from “Extensive Surveillance Society” to “Endemic Surveillance Society.” As Glenn Greenwald notes, this is “the worst possible category there is for privacy protections, the category also occupied by countries such as China, Russia, Singapore and Malaysia.” In general, “the 2007 rankings indicate an overall worsening of privacy protection across the world, reflecting an increase in surveillance and a declining performance of privacy safeguards.”

Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007

28/12/2007

The 2007 International Privacy Ranking

reply to post by GoldenFleece


They should do a time lapse version of that map so we can watch the entire world slowly turn black. Does anyone honestly have any hopes for a reversal of this trend?

I don't.