Global Privacy Rankings Released

djmurdoch writes 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.

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[sxpert]

i have to point out that a lot of terrorist groups are U.S citizen and white (timothy mcvay)

I'd like to point out the following :

1) it's spellt "timothy Mc Veigh"

2) ask any explosives specialist... there's NO FSCKING WAY a truckfull of ammonitrate + fuel explosive can do the damage that was done on that oklahoma city building, including the OUTWARDS explosions the building has experienced.

3) ask the same specialist to review the available media on the subject, and he'll tell you that the thing was the result of controlled demolition

4) multiple witnesses have asserted the fact that multiple explosions could be heard during the destruction of that building.

5) check http://www.st911.org/ for more information