Anarchy Alive

A recent report from Privacy International has analysed levels of surveillance and protection from it in all European countries and several others worldwide, scoring each according to measures such as constitutional and statutory protection, interception and data retention policies, biometrics and workplace monitoring. The results, as you can see in the map on the page, are pretty frightening.
The US, UK, Russia, China, Malasyia, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan are all designated “endemic surveillance societies”, with the situation in other countries not much better. Interestingly, Greece seems to be the most surveillance-free country in Europe, and the only one with “adequate safeguards against abuse”. The situation everywhere but Slovenia has been deteriorating.