Privacy International Releases 2007 Report

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Privacy International has released their report on privacy for 2007, which includes a color-coded world map that highlights the countries with the best privacy laws, the privacy-hostile countries being in black. While many of the overall rankings may come as no surprise, it does highlight some of the more obscure abuses. For example, Venezuela requires your fingerprints just to get a phone and South Korea requires a government registration number linked to your identity before you can post on message boards. Makes you wonder who is Number One?"

Comments

Re:Consistently upholds human rights standards?

[Broken scope]

No we couldn't, we would spend to much time pointing out how you misspelled militia.

Of course, I might just not know about other spellings of the word.

Re:bogus research

[Das Modell]

I've never particularly felt that my privacy is threatened in Finland, and I don't see anyone else complaining either. I don't know what the fuck this report is on about. I suspect these people value privacy with such singlemindedness that they ignore everything else, like security. The study even seems to be hinting that border surveillance is somehow wrong (1984 ALERT: CYPRUS IS MONITORING ITS BORDERS WITH CAMERAS!!11oneone). It's kind of hard for any government to keep the nation safe if they have no information about anything.