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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?"

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  1. Telescreen International by aldheorte · · Score: 2, Funny

    It wouldn't hurt if all of you sitting in front of your notebooks, computers, and cellular phones with integrated cameras turned off could be bothered to wave at us once in awhile.

  2. Re:Consistently upholds human rights standards? by TehZorroness · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not you. Sucks. It doesn't have to be that way, though. If all of us slashdot users stand up together as a melitia, I'm sure we can secure an area about the size of my back yard as a new sovereign country.

  3. Re:Consistently upholds human rights standards? by superash · · Score: 3, Funny

    No we couldn't, we would spend to much time pointing out ... to much time... or .... too much time ? ;)

  4. Protection vs Privacy in the EU by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Note that the European Union seems to have protected its citizens... ...from privacy.
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  5. Re:I see the US by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Funny

    How do you know? Maybe you're perceiving problems where there are not any problems too?

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