Land Of The Free-No more-US Seen As 'Endemic Surveillance Society"

[kpete]

Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007

28/12/2007


The 2007 International Privacy Ranking



http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd<347>=x-347-559597

U.S. seen internationally as an ‘Endemic Surveillance Society.’ 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.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/30/us-seen-internationally-as-an-endemic-surveillance-society/

[Systematic Chaos]

1. One more reason to cheer for peak oil I guess.

We'll all eat the surveillance cameras as a last resort - then problem solved!

:sarcasm: