Η τάξη των ΗΠΑ και του UK κακώς ως σφαιρική μυστικότητα διαβρώνεται

Μια Λονδίνο-βασισμένη ομάδα φυλάκων των ανθρώπινων δικαιωμάτων σχετικά με την επιτήρηση και τη μυστικότητα έχει απελευθερώσει την εθνική μυστικότητά της ταξινομώντας για το 2007, ταξινομώντας U.S, τη Ρωσία, την Κίνα και ένα μεγάλο μέρος της Νοτιοανατολικής Ασίας στο κατώτατο σημείο.

Μυστικότητα διεθνής ταξινομημένη Ελλάδα, Ρουμανία και Καναδάς ως ηγέτες ιδιωτικότητα στην προστασία των πολιτών τους».

Η ομάδα αξιολογεί και ταξινομεί 14 κριτήρια: Constitutional protection, statutory protection, privacy enforcement, identity cards and biometrics, data sharing, visual surveillance, communication interception, communication data retention, government access to data, workplace monitoring, surveillance of medical, financial and movement, border and trans-border issues, leadership, and democratic safeguards.

This year’s results indicated a general worsening of worldwide privacy standards, with an overall increase in surveillance attributable to border control and immigration issues.

The United States was summarized by the group as being the worst ranking country in the democratic world in terms of statutory protections and privacy enforcement. In short, this means that laws protecting Americans’ medical, workplace, and financial records from government and corporate surveillance are sorely lacking, and a regulatory body governing infractions of these rights is needed.

Privacy International says surveillance initiatives in the country continue to expand despite political shifts in Congress, and the United States has deteriorated into an “Endemic Surveillance Society.” The United Kingdom has also fallen into this category, which includes Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Russia, China, and Malaysia.

The only country on the list that enjoyed a marked improvement was the Republic of Slovenia, an EU member since 2004. The young country has two different rights to privacy detailed in its 1991 constitution, the Personal Data Protection Act which regulates both data and video surveillance, a data protection authority, regulated biometrics, and laws mandating anonymous location data.

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