Canada leads world in privacy: report

[Andrew Green]

LONDON — Individual privacy is best protected in Canada but under threat in the United States and the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and border control, an international rights group said in a report released Saturday. Canada, Greece and Romania had the best privacy records of 47 countries surveyed by London-based watchdog Privacy International. Malaysia, Russia and China were ranked worst.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...onal/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071229.wprivacy1229

Go Canada!

Of course wee did drop from last year, so maybe we shouldn't be too proud...

Here's the study for anyone that cares: http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-559597