[surveillance and privacy?}

Since 1997 the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy International survey the issue of global privacy. The latest report documents the state of technology, surveillance, and privacy prtection in 70 countries. The most recent report published this year is said to be "the most compprehensive single volume report published in the human rights field" (1). Take a look at the countries said to "nurture and respect privacy" (hello Canada....and Germany) and those who can learn from that example (take note George Bush, Malaysia, and China!) Apparently, the U.S. is the "worst in the democratic world" (2). The worst country (i.e. a country that exhibits high levels of surveillance and poor privacy) in the E.U. is the U.K. as it demonstrates "endemic surveillance."