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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[timmarhy]

I'm not buying into it, it looks like another "lets bash big companies" list. how is this related to big companys you say? take another look at the list, and you'll see all the countries singled out are where operations for large corporates are.

Take australia where i live for example. We have many many privacy safeguards and acts, which mean anyone seeking private information requires your signature, or they simply won't get it. I've never seen anything that would lead me to believe as long as i took REASONABLE precautions, my private data is not safe.

to qualify my statements, i used to work in the medical field where privacy is a huge issue.