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2003 Privacy and Human Rights Survey Released

Posted by michael on from the endangered-species dept.

Privacy Digest writes "Out-Law.com, UK - Global privacy report is the most comprehensive ever . The Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy International on Friday released their sixth annual Privacy and Human Rights survey which claims to be the most comprehensive survey on privacy and data protection ever published. The report reviews the state of privacy in over fifty-five countries around the world. Key topics include Total Information Awareness, the public response to the U.S.A.-Patriot Act, traveller profiling, biometric identification, and other new technologies of surveillance. Privacy and Human Rights 2003: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Developments is available free online or it can be purchased from the EPIC Bookstore."

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  1. In soviet russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    In soviet russia Human Rights survey YOU!

    1. Re:In soviet russia... by FileNotFound · · Score: 2, Funny

      In Soviet Russia you kinda have no rights...

      Trust me on that one...my phone was tapped 24/7 in Russia, I still get taped when I call back there. It's the "click"...and at times you can hear them breathing...or music in the background. Sometimes they pick up before the phone connects, sometimes after. I suppose they enjoy the chats I have with my gf...

      This whole article is worth shit though. I'd dare not call it a study. They quote laws that are not at all enforced. Russia has NO PRIVACY AT ALL. Yet it's nice and blue and supposedly has laws...BULLSHIT.

      They're still hassling my grandparents there asking where I dissapeared to and why I'm not getting raped in the army.

      Russia is totaly fucked, considering that the report has failed to show that, the report is WORTHLESS.

      --
      In Soviet Russia, the television watches YOU!
  2. Does it make any mention of ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... the fact that the left-leaning pro-privacy folks at slashdot still need to refer to anonymous posters as "cowards"?

    YOU INSENSITIVE CLODS!

  3. Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Global privacy report is the most comprehensive ever"

    Hm.. is it just me or does anyone else find anything just a LITTLE bit ironic about those exact words..?

    Think about it..

  4. Re:Of Course, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There is still slavery in the world

    yeah. it's called Tech Support.

  5. Re:Stop it by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 2, Funny
    Would I be posting to /. if I had a camera behind me?
    Well, I certainly wouldn't be posting if I had my boss behind me, but since he left 20 minutes ago...
  6. Best Way to Protect Our Privacy Is... by SilentMajority · · Score: 2, Funny

    The best way to protect our privacy is to stop doing things that gives our government or entities like RIAA arguably "justifiable" reasons to strip away our privacy rights.

    Doing illegal things lead to all of us paying the penalty by losing our rights. The more responsible we behave, the more rights we'll have. Pretty simple stuff.