17th Jan 2008
By Joan Delaney
"A few days after Stoddart's warning, the London-based privacy watchdog, Privacy International, released a report saying that in recent years, Parliaments throughout the world have enacted legislation "intended to comprehensively increase government's reach into the private life of nearly all citizens and residents."
The report, which rated the privacy records of 47 countries, ranked Canada, Rumania and Greece the highest while China, Russia and Malaysia ranked low. Britain and the U.S., along with China, Russia and Singapore fell into the "black" category, denoting endemic
surveillance."
