[Med-privacy] Global Privacy Rankings Released

[Jeff Williams]

All,

  So we all can be well advised when in GB, and when going to
the Loo, it might be a good idea to look around for a CCTV
camera first.  It also seems the United States isn't much better.

  I also hope my doctor will not be soon required to have a CCTV
camara on when giving me a proctal exam in order to combat
drug smuggling and terrorism!

  FYI see:
 http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-545223

 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061101.wpriv1101/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20061101.wpriv1101

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6108496.stm

To alert us to the release of Privacy International's privacy ranking
of 37 nations. This came out of PI and EPIC's annual Privacy and
Human Rights global study, which this year runs to 1,200
pages. From a Globe and Mail article on the rankings: "Germany and
Canada are the best defenders of privacy, and Malaysia and China the
worst, an international rights group said in a report released
Wednesday.
Britain was rated as an endemic surveillance society, at No. 33, just
above Russia and Singapore... The United States did only slightly
better,
at No. 30, ranked between Israel and Thailand, with few safeguards and
widespread surveillance." PI's study coincided with a report from
Britain's information commissioner warning that the UK could "sleep-walk

into a surveillance society". The nation now has one CCTV camera for
every 14 people.

Regards,

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